KR20140108035A - System and method for managing car parking - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parking management system and a parking management method, which perform a parking management by using a camera with a parking space recognition function. The parking management method comprises the steps of: setting, for the camera installed at a high position overlooking a parking lot, parking region information including at least one parking space including a motion detection region and virtual vehicle entry/exit lines outside the at least parking space; determining, from a parking lot image captured by the camera, the presence or absence of a vehicle parking in the parking space and a position of an empty parking space based on motion detection event information for the parking space and event information generated upon contact with the virtual vehicle entry/exit lines; and providing the result of determination as to the presence or absence of the vehicle parking in the parking space and the position of the empty parking space as UI information.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parking management system,

The present invention relates to a parking management system and a parking management method for performing parking management using a camera equipped with a parking face recognition function.

Generally, a parking management system using a camera image is a complex solution type in which a plurality of cameras, sensors, and a guidance indicator are interlocked to perform recognition of a parking space that can be parked in an indoor parking lot and provide the information to a parking vehicle . It is the key to monitor incidents in the parking lot and observe accident between the vehicles through the installed camera, to identify the parking space and provide information.

However, when the parking lot is located in a wide outdoor space rather than an indoor space, the application of the existing parking management system is not suitable in terms of installation environment and cost.

Korean Patent Publication No. 2009-0070698

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a parking management system and a parking management system, which are installed at a high position overlooking a parking lot and discriminate whether the parking lot is parked on a parked surface using a camera equipped with a parking- Method.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a parking management method comprising: installing a camera at a high position overlooking a parking lot; Setting parking lot area information including at least one parking surface and a virtual vehicle entry / exit line outside the at least one parking surface; Determining whether the vehicle is parked on the parking surface based on motion detection for the parking surface and event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / exit line contacts the parking lot image photographed by the camera; And providing the result of the parking presence / absence determination of the vehicle to the UI on the parking surface.

In the present invention, the step of providing to the UI may include displaying the information including the real-time status of the whole parking lot, the display on the empty parking space, and the direction display guidance from the entrance of the spear- And a step of providing the data.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a parking management system comprising: a camera at a high position overlooking a parking lot; And a display unit for displaying the parking lot image photographed by the camera, wherein the camera includes parking lot area information including at least one parking plane and a virtual vehicle entry / exit line outside the at least one parking plane A setting unit for setting; A video analysis for judging whether or not the vehicle is parked on the parking surface based on the motion detection for the parking surface and the event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / exit line contacts the parking lot image photographed by the camera part; And information indicating the presence or absence of a parking result of the vehicle on the parking surface, a real-time status of the entire parking lot, a display on the empty parking surface, and a direction display guidance in the direction of the empty parking surface And providing the UI to the display unit.

As described above, according to the present invention, the user can determine whether or not the vehicle is parked on the set parking face using a camera installed at a high position overlooking the parking lot and equipped with the parking face recognizing function, It is possible to quickly park the vehicle by moving to a preferred position of the parking space displayed as empty by looking at the discrimination screen.

1 is a block diagram showing a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a view showing an installation position of the camera 100 in Fig.
3 is a view for explaining definition and correction of a parking area taken by the camera 100 in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining setting of parking area information of the camera 100 in FIG.
5 is a view showing UI information generated by the camera 100 in FIG.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a parking management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The present invention is capable of various modifications and various embodiments, and specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various elements, but the elements should not be limited by terms. Terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In the present application, the terms "comprises" or "having" and the like are used to specify that there is a feature, a number, a step, an operation, an element, a component or a combination thereof described in the specification, But do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof.

The present invention may be represented by functional block configurations and various processing steps. These functional blocks may be implemented in a wide variety of hardware and / or software configurations that perform particular functions. For example, the present invention may include integrated circuit configurations, such as memory, processing, logic, look-up tables, etc., that may perform various functions by control of one or more microprocessors or other control devices Can be adopted. Similar to the components of the present invention that may be implemented with software programming or software components, the present invention may be implemented as a combination of C, C ++, and C ++, including various algorithms implemented with data structures, processes, routines, , Java (Java), assembler, and the like. Functional aspects may be implemented with algorithms running on one or more processors. Further, the present invention can employ conventional techniques for electronic environment setting, signal processing, and / or data processing. Terms such as mechanisms, elements, means, and configurations are widely used and are not limited to mechanical and physical configurations. The term may include the meaning of a series of routines of software in conjunction with a processor or the like.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to the accompanying drawings, the same or corresponding components are denoted by the same reference numerals, do.

1 is a block diagram showing a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the parking management system includes a network camera 100, a network 200, and a display unit 300.

The camera 100 may be composed of a single fixed camera having a fixed lens and a fixed photographing range, or a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera having a variable photographing range. Here, the PTZ camera can easily change various surveillance areas with one camera by pan operation rotated in the horizontal direction, tilt operation rotated in the vertical direction, and zoom in / zoom out operation . The PTZ camera has the advantages of being able to detect the omnidirectional direction and have a uniform resolution because it can be horizontally, vertically, and rotated compared to a single fixed camera.

The camera 100 is connected to the display unit 300 through the network 200, and the monitoring function is controlled by an instruction from the display unit 300. In the monitoring mode, there are a manual mode in which the user manually operates the joystick (not shown) to perform monitoring by adjusting the camera 100, and a preset mode in which the monitoring position previously stored by the user is sequentially monitored at a predetermined time.

The display unit 300 may be a device capable of executing a web viewer or a mobile device capable of executing a mobile viewer. The display unit 300 displays an image captured by the camera 100 through the network 200. The display means 300 may be a touch panel, and may be formed of a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light emitting diode (OLED), or the like. The display unit 300 may receive a control signal for controlling the camera 100 and transmit the control signal to the camera 100. The display unit 300 may be installed at the entrance of the parking window, for example.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the camera 100 is installed at a high position, for example, in a wide outdoor parking lot, overlooking the parking lot, and provides parking management information in the corresponding area to assist the user in fast parking.

The camera 100 includes a parking area information setting unit 110, a video analysis unit 120, a UI generating unit 130, and a database 140 for providing parking management information.

When the camera 100 is installed at a high position overlooking the parking lot, the entire image including the parking lot is provided to the display unit 300 through the network 200. FIG. 3A shows a whole image including a parking lot provided by the camera 100. FIG. When the user defines a parking area from the parking lot image displayed on the display unit 300, the parking area information is transmitted to the parking area information setting unit 110 through the network 200. 3B shows a parking area and a parking surface defined by the user. 3B, the video analysis unit 120 corrects the distorted parking area to a parking area and a parking area as shown in FIG. 3C, and then transmits the corrected parking area to the display unit 300 through the network 200. FIG.

The parking area information setting unit 110 also includes at least one parking area including a motion detection area for the parking area, a virtual vehicle entry / exit line outside at least one parking area, and parking area information . When the user views the parking image displayed on the display unit 300 and sets a parking plane, a virtual vehicle entry / exit line, and a parking lot entrance, the user setting information is stored in the parking area information To the setting unit 110 and finally set.

4A shows the parking plane including the motion detection area 410, FIG. 4B shows the virtual vehicle entry / exit lines 420 and 430 set outside the series of parking surfaces, and FIG. 4C And a parking lot entrance / exit 440 setting.

Upon completion of the setting of the parking area information, the video analysis unit 120 performs motion detection on the parking lot image captured by the camera 100, motion detection event information on the parking plane, and event (s) generated when the virtual vehicle entry / Based on the information, the parking position of the vehicle is determined on the parking side and the position of the empty parking side is determined.

The video analysis unit 120 can determine whether the vehicle is parked on the parking surface using the motion detection event information on the parking surface. The video analysis unit 120 stores the image of the parking space that is empty according to the motion detection in the database 140 for the parking space on which the motion detection area 410 is set. The video analysis unit 120 can determine whether the vehicle is parked or parked with only a part of the motion even when the motion detection area 410 is covered by the vehicle and can distinguish a person from a vehicle with a reference size setting for motion detection.

In addition, the video analysis unit 120 can determine whether the vehicle is parked on the parking surface using event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / exit lines 420 and 430 contact each other. The video analysis unit 120 can distinguish the parking and departure events from the entrance line 420 because the event does not occur when the vehicle first enters the entrance line 420, The video analyzing unit 120 recognizes the parking and departure events by recognizing the entrance and exit events since the entrance event does not occur even when the vehicle enters the parking area again after the event occurs when the vehicle first enters the advance line 430 .

The video analysis unit 120 compares the image of the corresponding parking surface with the image of the empty parking space of the database 140 and counts the number of the empty parking spaces And counts the number of vehicles that have passed through the virtual vehicle entry / exit lines 420 and 430 to correct and update recognition errors.

The UI generation unit 130 displays the result of the parking presence / non-determination of the vehicle on the parking surface, the real-time status of the entire parking lot, the display of the empty parking space, and the direction display guidance from the main window entrance 440 toward the empty parking space And provides the UI information to the display unit 300 through the network 200. [0050] FIG. 5 shows the UI information generated by the camera 100, and displays the real-time status of the entire parking lot, the display of the empty parking space, and the direction display guidance from the main window entrance 440 to the empty parking space have.

In this way, the user can discriminate whether the vehicle is parked on the parking surface set by using a camera installed at a high position overlooking the parking lot and equipped with the parking surface recognition function, It is possible to quickly park the vehicle by moving to a preferred position on the parking surface indicated by "

Next, a parking management method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The parking management method according to the present invention can be performed inside the camera 100 with the help of peripheral components as shown in FIG. In the following description, the description of the parts overlapping with the description of Figs. 1 to 5 will be omitted.

6, the camera 100 is installed at a high position overlooking a parking lot, and includes a virtual vehicle entry / exit line on at least one parking surface including a motion detection area and at least one parking space outside (S100) of setting parking lot area information. Here, the setting of the parking area information of the camera 100 is performed by viewing the parking image displayed on the display unit 300 and setting the parking plane, the virtual vehicle entry / exit line and the parking lot entrance, To the parking area information setting unit 110 and finally set.

When the setting of the parking area information is completed, the camera 100 performs a video analysis on the photographed parking lot image based on the motion detection event information on the parking surface and the event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / exit line contacts (S200) of determining whether the parking space of the vehicle is parked or not and the position of the vacant parking space is determined. The camera 100 uses the motion detection to detect the presence or absence of an unoccupied parking space on the basis of event information generated when the vehicle is parked on the parking surface or when the vehicle leaves the parking space, It is possible to count the number and calculate the position of the parking surface.

Then, the camera 100 generates UI information including a real-time status of the whole parking lot, an indication of an empty parking space, and a direction indication guidance in the direction of an empty parking space from the entrance of the main window, 300 in step S300.

The present invention has been described above with reference to preferred embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be embodied in various other forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

100: camera 110: parking area information setting unit
120: Video analysis unit 130: UI generation unit
140: Database 200: Network
300:

Claims (3)

Setting parking lot area information including a virtual vehicle entry / exit line outside the at least one parking surface and at least one parking surface including a motion detection area in a camera installed at a high position overlooking the parking lot;
And a controller for controlling the parking position of the vehicle on the basis of the motion detection event information for the parking surface and the event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / Determining the position of the parking surface; And
And providing UI information indicating whether or not the vehicle is parked on the parking surface and a result of determining an empty parking surface position. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the UI information comprises:
The information including the real-time status of the entire parking lot, the display of the empty parking space, and the direction display guidance from the entrance of the main window to the empty parking space direction as UI information. . A camera installed in a high position overlooking the parking lot; And
And a display unit for displaying a parking lot image photographed by the camera,
The camera comprises:
A setting unit setting at least one parking surface including a motion detection area and parking lot area information including a virtual vehicle entry / exit line outside the at least one parking surface;
And a controller for controlling the parking position of the vehicle on the basis of the motion detection event information for the parking surface and the event information generated when the virtual vehicle entry / A video analysis unit for determining a parking position of the vehicle; And
The UI information including the result of the presence / absence of the parking of the vehicle on the parking surface, the real-time status of the entire parking lot, the display of the empty parking surface, and the direction display guidance from the entrance of the main window to the empty parking surface direction And providing the display unit with the UI information.

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