CN110766969A

CN110766969A - Vehicle searching method and device and vehicle equipment

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Publication number: CN110766969A
Application number: CN201810844309.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 廖国红; 钟学明; 李明; 覃颖
Original assignee: BYD Co Ltd
Current assignee: BYD Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-07-27
Filing date: 2018-07-27
Publication date: 2020-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 2038-07-27
Also published as: CN110766969B

Abstract

The invention provides a vehicle searching method, a vehicle searching device and vehicle equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving a vehicle searching request sent by terminal equipment, wherein the vehicle searching request comprises vehicle information of a vehicle to be searched and first secret key information; inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if the first parking information database contains the vehicle information, acquiring second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database; judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information or not, and if the matching is successful, acquiring vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database; and sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that the user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information. Therefore, the user can obtain the position of the vehicle to be searched from the surrounding vehicle equipment through the terminal equipment, the user can conveniently search the vehicle, the vehicle searching process is simplified, and the vehicle searching convenience of the user is greatly improved.

Description

Vehicle searching method and device and vehicle equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicle management, in particular to a vehicle searching method, a vehicle searching device and vehicle equipment.

Background

With the rapid development of the automobile industry in recent years, the number of private cars is increasing, the parking lot is also increasing, and the car searching is more and more difficult.

In order to help a user to quickly find a specific position of a vehicle, a vehicle searching mode provided in the related art mainly includes two modes, namely a first mode that a vehicle owner uploads current GPS (Global Positioning System) information GPS of the vehicle to a server through wireless communication modes such as 3G and 4G, and then the vehicle owner looks up the current position of the vehicle through an intelligent terminal such as a mobile phone and finds the current position of the vehicle according to the position displayed in the intelligent terminal. In the second mode, a limited terminal is erected in a parking lot, a vehicle owner stops the vehicle, then the parking card is swiped to the nearest terminal, the terminal records vehicle information of the vehicle owner and the like, then the vehicle position of the vehicle owner is positioned nearby the terminal, when the vehicle owner needs to search for the vehicle, the parking card is swiped to any terminal, the terminal can display the position of the nearest terminal of the vehicle owner, and the vehicle owner can search for the position of the vehicle nearby by searching for the terminal.

However, in the process of implementing the present invention, the inventor finds that the above vehicle searching mode has at least the following problems: in the first mode, on one hand, the GPS positioning cannot be very accurate, so that the vehicle position seen by a vehicle owner has certain deviation from the actual position, and the vehicle cannot be correctly found; on the other hand, when the owner is unfamiliar with the interior of the parking lot, the vicinity of the vehicle cannot be quickly reached even if the accurate position of the vehicle is obtained. In the second mode, if the owner forgets to swipe the card through a nearby terminal after parking, the owner can hardly use the terminal to inquire and locate the vehicle. In addition, if the distribution of the inquiry terminal machines is not very dense, the vehicle owner needs to find the inquiry terminal machine first and then find the vehicle position; if the parking lot is complicated, the owner can hardly find the position of the vehicle even if the position information of the owner is inquired on the terminal.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving, at least to some extent, one of the technical problems in the related art.

Therefore, a first objective of the present invention is to provide a vehicle searching method, which enables a user to obtain a position of a vehicle to be searched from surrounding vehicle devices through a terminal device, thereby facilitating the user to search for the vehicle, simplifying the vehicle searching process, and greatly improving the convenience of the user in searching for the vehicle.

The second purpose of the invention is to provide a vehicle searching device.

A third object of the invention is to propose a vehicle arrangement.

A fourth object of the invention is to propose a computer-readable storage medium.

A fifth object of the invention is to propose a computer program product.

In order to achieve the above object, a vehicle seeking method is provided in an embodiment of a first aspect of the present invention, where the method is applied to a vehicle device, and the method includes: receiving a vehicle searching request sent by terminal equipment, wherein the vehicle searching request comprises vehicle information of a vehicle to be searched and first secret key information; inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if the first parking information database is known to contain the vehicle information, acquiring second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database; judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information or not, and if the matching is successful, acquiring vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database; and sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that a user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: if the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, acquiring target vehicle equipment with a second parking information database, wherein the vehicle information of the second parking information database is different from that of the first parking information database; and sending the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle equipment so that the target vehicle equipment queries the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: the method comprises the steps of obtaining parking information sent by the vehicle to be searched through a wireless network, and storing the parking information in a first parking information database, wherein the parking information comprises vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched, second key information and vehicle position information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the wireless network comprises a dedicated short range communication, DSRC, network.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: and forwarding the parking information to other vehicle equipment so that the other vehicle equipment stores the parking information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the distance between the current position where the vehicle equipment runs and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold; or after the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold value, when the vehicle equipment is monitored to perform information interaction with a roadside information site encountered for the first time, the parking information is forwarded to a central server through the roadside information site, and the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: receiving a deletion notification of deleting the parking information, the deletion notification including the vehicle information and the first key information of the vehicle to be searched; and deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the first parking information database is determined to contain the vehicle information and the second key information is determined to be matched with the first key information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises: forwarding the deletion notification to the target vehicle device to cause the target vehicle device to delete the parking information in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

According to the vehicle searching method, a vehicle owner sends a vehicle searching request to surrounding vehicle equipment through terminal equipment, correspondingly, when the vehicle equipment determines that vehicle information in the vehicle searching request exists in a first parking information database in the vehicle equipment, the vehicle equipment obtains second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database, the first key information in the vehicle searching request is matched through the second key information, and if the first key information and the second key information are matched, the vehicle equipment obtains vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database and sends the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment. Therefore, the user can obtain the position of the vehicle to be searched from the surrounding vehicle equipment through the terminal equipment, the user can conveniently search the vehicle, the vehicle searching process is simplified, and the vehicle searching convenience of the user is greatly improved.

In order to achieve the above object, a second embodiment of the present invention provides a vehicle searching device, which is applied to a vehicle device, and includes: the system comprises a first receiving module, a second receiving module and a third receiving module, wherein the first receiving module is used for receiving a vehicle searching request sent by a terminal device, and the vehicle searching request comprises vehicle information of a vehicle to be searched and first secret key information; the first processing module is used for inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if the first parking information database is known to contain the vehicle information, second key information corresponding to the vehicle information is acquired from the first parking information database; the second processing module is used for judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information or not, and if the matching is successful, acquiring vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database; and the first sending module is used for sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that a user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: the acquisition module is used for acquiring target vehicle equipment with a second parking information database when the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, wherein the second parking information database is different from the first parking information database in vehicle information; and the second sending module is used for sending the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle equipment so as to enable the target vehicle equipment to inquire the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: the system comprises a preprocessing module and a first parking information database, wherein the preprocessing module is used for acquiring parking information sent by the vehicle to be searched through a wireless network and storing the parking information in the first parking information database, and the parking information comprises vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched, second key information and vehicle position information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: and the first forwarding module is used for forwarding the parking information to other vehicle equipment so that the other vehicle equipment stores the parking information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: the third processing module is used for deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold; or after the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold value, when the vehicle equipment is monitored to perform information interaction with a roadside information site encountered for the first time, the parking information is forwarded to a central server through the roadside information site, and the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: a second receiving module, configured to receive a deletion notification for deleting the parking information, where the deletion notification includes the vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched and the first key information; and the deleting module is used for deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the first parking information database is determined to contain the vehicle information and the second key information is determined to be matched with the first key information.

In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus further comprises: and the second forwarding module is used for forwarding the deletion notification to the target vehicle device so that the target vehicle device deletes the parking information in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

According to the vehicle searching device provided by the embodiment of the invention, a vehicle owner sends a vehicle searching request to surrounding vehicle equipment through terminal equipment, correspondingly, when the vehicle equipment determines that vehicle information in the vehicle searching request exists in a first parking information database in the vehicle equipment, the vehicle equipment acquires second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database, matches the first key information in the vehicle searching request through the second key information, and if the first key information and the second key information are matched, the vehicle equipment acquires vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database and sends the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment. Therefore, the user can obtain the position of the vehicle to be searched from the surrounding vehicle equipment through the terminal equipment, the user can conveniently search the vehicle, the vehicle searching process is simplified, and the vehicle searching convenience of the user is greatly improved.

To achieve the above object, a third aspect embodiment of the invention proposes a vehicle apparatus including: the vehicle searching method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, wherein when the processor executes the program, the vehicle searching method is realized according to the embodiment of the first aspect of the invention.

According to the vehicle device provided by the embodiment of the invention, a vehicle owner sends a vehicle searching request to surrounding vehicle devices through the terminal device, correspondingly, when the vehicle device determines that the vehicle information in the vehicle searching request exists in the first parking information database in the vehicle device, the vehicle device obtains the second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database, matches the first key information in the vehicle searching request through the second key information, and if the two are matched, the vehicle device obtains the vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database and sends the vehicle position information to the terminal device. Therefore, the user can obtain the position of the vehicle to be searched from the surrounding vehicle equipment through the terminal equipment, the user can conveniently search the vehicle, the vehicle searching process is simplified, and the vehicle searching convenience of the user is greatly improved.

In order to achieve the above object, a fourth aspect of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program is executed by a processor to implement the car-searching method according to the first aspect of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, a fifth embodiment of the present invention provides a computer program product, which when executed by an instruction processor in the computer program product, performs the car seeking method of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The foregoing and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a vehicle locating method according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a vehicle seeking method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a vehicle seeking method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart diagram of a vehicle seeking method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a vehicle searching device according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a vehicle searching device according to another embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

The following describes a vehicle finding method, device and vehicle equipment according to an embodiment of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a vehicle searching method according to an embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 1, the car searching method includes the following steps:

step 101, receiving a vehicle searching request sent by a terminal device.

The vehicle searching request can include, but is not limited to, vehicle information and first key information of the vehicle to be searched, and the vehicle searching request can also include other information, such as parking time of the vehicle to be searched, current position information of the terminal device, and the like.

The vehicle searching method according to the embodiment of the invention is applied to a vehicle searching device, and the vehicle searching device can be configured in vehicle equipment.

The first vehicle information and the first key information of the vehicle to be searched in the terminal device may be obtained by the terminal device from the vehicle to be searched in advance.

The terminal device may be any hardware device that can send a vehicle finding request, for example, the terminal device may be a smart phone, a tablet computer, a portable device, a smart car key, and the like.

It should be understood that the terminal device may send the vehicle-searching request to the surrounding vehicle devices in various ways, for example, the terminal device may send the vehicle-searching request through a 3G, 4G, or the like network, or the terminal device may send the vehicle-searching request through a surrounding wireless network, or the terminal device may send the vehicle-searching request through a dedicated Short range communications (dsrc) network.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the terminal device, the vehicle device, and the roadside information station are described as an example in which all communicate via the DSRC network, that is, all of the terminal device, the vehicle device, and the roadside information station in this embodiment have a DSRC communication module.

Among them, DSRC is an efficient wireless communication technology. The system can realize information interaction between vehicles, information interaction between vehicles and roadside information sites, and information interaction between terminal equipment such as mobile terminals and vehicles.

Specifically, when the owner needs to search for the vehicle, the terminal device broadcasts the vehicle searching request in a preset geographic range of the terminal device through the DSRC communication module. Correspondingly, vehicle devices located within the preset geographic range receive the vehicle searching request through the DSRC communication module.

And 102, inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and acquiring second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database if the first parking information database contains the vehicle information.

And 103, judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information, and if the matching is successful, acquiring the vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database.

And 104, sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that the user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

Based on the above embodiment, in practical application, after the user obtains the vehicle position information of the vehicle to be searched, sometimes the user is not familiar with the surrounding environment, or the environment of the parking lot is complex, and the user is difficult to find the vehicle position.

The navigation method includes the steps that in order to improve experience of a user, in the process that the terminal device guides the user to find a vehicle to be searched through a navigation path, the terminal device can broadcast the navigation path through voice to navigate the user.

Based on the foregoing embodiments, in practical applications, sometimes the terminal device has a limited range for sending the seeking request, the vehicle information of the vehicle sought by the user may not exist in the parking information database in the vehicle device receiving the seeking request, and in order to enable the user to obtain the vehicle position information of the vehicle sought by the user, as an exemplary implementation manner, on the basis shown in fig. 1, as shown in fig. 2, the method may further include:

and 105, if the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, acquiring the target vehicle equipment with the second parking information database.

Wherein the second parking information database is different from the first parking information database in vehicle information.

As an exemplary embodiment, the vehicle device may acquire the target vehicle device having the second parking information database through the server.

As another exemplary embodiment, the vehicle device may acquire the target vehicle device having the second parking information database by information interaction with other vehicle devices.

And 106, sending the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle equipment so that the target vehicle equipment can inquire the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

As an exemplary implementation, the vehicle device is provided with a DSRC communication module, and the vehicle device can send the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle device within the preset geographic range through the DSRC communication module. Correspondingly, a target vehicle device within a preset geographic range may receive a vehicle-finding request transmitted by the vehicle device through the DSRC communication module.

It should be noted that the process of querying the position of the vehicle to be searched by the target vehicle device according to the vehicle searching request is the same as the vehicle searching process of the vehicle device in the embodiment of the present disclosure, and details are not repeated here.

It should be understood that the vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched does not exist in the parking information database in the target vehicle device, and the target vehicle device forwards the vehicle searching request to the corresponding other vehicle device again to continue searching through the other vehicle device.

It should be noted that, in order to enable the user to obtain the vehicle position information of the vehicle to be searched, if it is known that the first key information is not matched with the second key information, the vehicle searching request is forwarded to the other vehicle device, so that the vehicle to be searched is continuously searched through the other vehicle device.

As an exemplary embodiment, in order to enable the user to obtain the vehicle position information of the vehicle to be searched, if it is known that the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, the vehicle searching request is forwarded to the other vehicle device, so as to continue searching for the vehicle to be searched through the other vehicle device.

As an exemplary embodiment, before the vehicle device forwards the vehicle seeking request, the vehicle device may acquire a sending time when the terminal device sends the vehicle seeking request and a receiving time when the vehicle seeking request is received, then calculate a time difference between the receiving time and the sending time, and determine whether the time difference exceeds a preset time threshold. And if the acquired time difference is smaller than or equal to the preset time threshold value, the vehicle equipment executes the step of forwarding the vehicle searching request to other vehicle equipment.

It should be noted that, if the learned time difference is judged to exceed the preset time threshold, the vehicle device stops forwarding the vehicle searching request.

As another exemplary embodiment, before the vehicle device forwards the vehicle searching request, the distance between the terminal device and the vehicle device is determined; judging whether the distance exceeds a preset distance threshold value; and if the acquired distance is judged to be smaller than or equal to the preset distance threshold value, the vehicle equipment executes the step of forwarding the vehicle searching request to other vehicle equipment.

And if the learned distance is judged to exceed the preset distance threshold value, the vehicle equipment stops forwarding the vehicle searching request.

It should be noted that the distance between the vehicle device and the terminal device may be obtained in various ways, for example, as follows:

as an example, when the vehicle-finding request includes the position information of the terminal device, the vehicle device may acquire the current position information of the vehicle device through a GPS positioning device in the vehicle device, and determine the distance between the terminal device and the vehicle device according to the position information of the terminal device and the current position information of the vehicle device.

As another example, the vehicle device may acquire the location information of the terminal device and the location information of the vehicle device through the server, and determine the distance between the terminal device and the vehicle device according to the location information of the terminal device and the location information of the vehicle device.

As another example, the vehicle device may send an acquisition request to the server to acquire the distance between the vehicle device and the terminal device, where the acquisition request may include a vehicle identification of the vehicle device and a terminal identification of the terminal device.

Correspondingly, the server respectively acquires the position information of the vehicle equipment and the position information of the terminal equipment according to the vehicle identification and the terminal identification, determines the distance between the terminal equipment and the vehicle equipment according to the position information of the vehicle equipment and the position information of the terminal equipment, and returns the distance between the terminal equipment and the vehicle equipment to the vehicle equipment.

In order to enable vehicles in a preset area to continue to search for vehicles to be searched, as an exemplary implementation manner, after vehicle equipment stops forwarding the vehicle searching request, when it is monitored that the vehicle equipment performs information interaction with a road side information site encountered for the first time, the vehicle equipment sends the vehicle searching request to a central server through the road side information site, and the vehicle searching request is used for instructing the central server to forward the vehicle searching request to the road side information site in the preset area.

The preset area is an area formed by taking the position of the terminal equipment as the center and taking the preset distance as the radius.

Correspondingly, in order to reduce the occupation of the information on the storage resource of the central server, as an exemplary embodiment, after the central server successfully forwards the vehicle searching request to the roadside information site in the preset area, the central server may delete the vehicle searching request.

After the roadside information station in the preset area receives the vehicle searching request, the roadside information station in the preset area can forward the vehicle searching request to the corresponding vehicle equipment, so that other vehicle equipment in the preset area can continue to search the vehicle.

As an exemplary embodiment, the roadside information site may forward the vehicle searching request to vehicle devices within a preset geographic range through the DSCR technology. Correspondingly, the vehicle equipment in the preset geographic range receives the vehicle searching request sent by the roadside information station through the DSCR communication module, and continues to search for the vehicle to be searched based on the vehicle searching request until the vehicle to be searched is found.

Based on any of the above embodiments, before the vehicle device receives the vehicle searching request sent by the terminal device, as shown in fig. 3, the vehicle searching method may further include:

step 301, obtaining parking information sent by a vehicle to be searched through a wireless network, and storing the parking information in a first parking information database.

The parking information may include, but is not limited to, vehicle information of the vehicle to be sought, second key information, vehicle position information, and the like, and the parking information may also include other information, for example, the parking information may also include parking time of the vehicle to be sought, and the like.

The wireless network may include, but is not limited to, a dedicated short-range communications DSRC network, among others. For example, the wireless network may also be a WIFI network, a 3G network, or a 4G network.

In one embodiment of the invention, in order to facilitate the subsequent user to search for the vehicle through the vehicle devices around the subsequent user, after the vehicle device acquires the parking information, the vehicle device may forward the parking information to the other vehicle devices, so that the other vehicle devices store the parking information. Therefore, parking information is stored in a plurality of vehicle devices, and a user can conveniently and quickly acquire the position of a searched vehicle through the surrounding vehicle devices.

It should be noted that, in order to avoid occupation of the storage resource of the vehicle device by the parking information of the vehicle to be searched after the vehicle device travels to a distance from the vehicle to be searched, as an exemplary embodiment, the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted when the distance between the current position where the vehicle device travels and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold.

As another exemplary implementation manner, after the distance between the current driving position of the vehicle device and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold, when it is monitored that the vehicle device performs information interaction with a roadside information site which is encountered for the first time, the parking information is forwarded to the central server through the roadside information site, and the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted. Therefore, the vehicle equipment can store the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to the central server through the roadside information station and delete the parking information in the vehicle equipment.

It should be noted that, after the central server acquires the parking information of the vehicle to be searched, the central server may forward the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to a roadside information site in a preset area. Correspondingly, the roadside information station in the preset area can forward the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to the corresponding other vehicle equipment, so that the other vehicle equipment stores the parking information of the vehicle to be searched.

The preset area is an area formed by taking a vehicle to be searched as a center and taking a preset distance as a radius.

In the practical application process, the vehicle owner can also access the central server through the terminal device with the internet function, and the vehicle searching request is sent to the central server, so that the vehicle position information of the vehicle to be searched is acquired through the central server.

After the user successfully seeks the vehicle, in order to reduce the occupation of the storage space of the vehicle device by saving the parking information, as an exemplary implementation manner, based on the embodiment shown in fig. 2, as shown in fig. 4, the vehicle seeking method may further include:

step 401, receiving a deletion notification for deleting the parking information, where the deletion notification includes the vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched and the first key information.

It should be noted that the deletion notification for deleting the parking information may be sent successfully by the terminal device in searching for the vehicle, or may be sent by the vehicle to be searched, which is not limited in this embodiment.

And 402, deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the first parking information database is determined to contain the vehicle information and the second key information is determined to be matched with the first key information.

Based on the above embodiment, in order to reduce the occupation of the storage space of the target vehicle device by the parking information, the vehicle device may further forward a deletion notification to the target vehicle device, so that the target vehicle device deletes the parking information of the vehicle to be searched in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

As an exemplary embodiment, the vehicular device may broadcast a deletion notification over the DSRC network. The target vehicle device corresponding to the preset geographic range can receive the deletion notification through the DSRC communication module in the device, and when the vehicle information and the key information in the deletion notification are verified to be verified, the parking information of the vehicle to be searched, which is stored in the parking information database of the device, is deleted.

It should be understood that after the parking information of the vehicle to be searched is forwarded between the vehicle devices for a period of time, the parking information of the vehicle to be searched is stored in many vehicle devices. However, for the vehicle equipment far away from the vehicle to be searched, there is no great benefit for the subsequent user to search the vehicle through the terminal equipment, and the occupation of the storage resource of the vehicle equipment for saving the parking information of the vehicle to be searched is reduced. As an exemplary embodiment, before the vehicle apparatus forwards the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to other vehicle apparatuses, the vehicle apparatus may further acquire a transmission time when the vehicle to be searched transmits the parking information and a reception time when the parking information is received, then calculate a time difference between the reception time and the transmission time, and determine whether the time difference exceeds a preset time threshold. And if the acquired time difference is smaller than or equal to the preset time threshold value, the vehicle equipment forwards the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to other vehicle equipment.

The preset time threshold is a preset time threshold for information transmission between vehicles, and may be half an hour or one hour, for example.

It should be understood that, in practical application, the preset time threshold may be set according to a requirement, and the preset time threshold is not limited in this embodiment.

If the time difference is judged to be larger than the preset time threshold, the vehicle equipment stops forwarding the parking information of the vehicle to be searched.

Based on the implementation, as an exemplary implementation manner, before the vehicle device forwards the parking information of the vehicle to be searched to other vehicle devices, the vehicle device may further determine a distance between the vehicle to be searched and the vehicle device, and determine whether the distance exceeds a preset distance threshold. And if the distance is judged to be smaller than or equal to the preset distance threshold value, the vehicle equipment stops forwarding the parking information of the vehicle to be searched.

It should be noted that, according to different application scenarios, the vehicle device may determine the distance between the vehicle to be searched and the vehicle device in multiple ways, for example, as follows:

as an example, when the parking information includes the position information of the vehicle to be sought, the vehicle device may acquire its current position information through a GPS positioning device in itself, and determine the distance between the vehicle to be sought and the vehicle device according to the position information of the vehicle to be sought and the current position information of the vehicle device.

As another example, the vehicle device may obtain, by the server, the location information of the vehicle to be sought and the location information of the vehicle device, and determine the distance between the vehicle to be sought and the vehicle device according to the location information of the vehicle to be sought and the location information of the vehicle device.

As another example, the vehicle device may send an acquisition request to the server to acquire the distance between the vehicle device and the vehicle to be searched, where the acquisition request may include a vehicle identifier of the vehicle device and a terminal identifier of the vehicle to be searched. Correspondingly, the server respectively acquires the position information of the vehicle equipment and the position information of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle identification and the terminal identification, determines the distance between the vehicle to be searched and the vehicle equipment according to the position information of the vehicle equipment and the position information of the vehicle to be searched, and returns the distance between the vehicle to be searched and the vehicle equipment to the vehicle equipment.

In order to realize the embodiment, the invention further provides a vehicle searching device.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a vehicle searching device according to an embodiment of the invention.

It should be noted that the vehicle finding device of the embodiment is applied to a vehicle device.

As shown in fig. 5, the car-searching device may include a first receiving module 110, a first processing module 120, a second processing module 130, and a first transmitting module 140, wherein:

the first receiving module 110 is configured to receive a car-searching request sent by a terminal device.

The first processing module 120 is configured to query a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if it is known that the first parking information database includes the vehicle information, obtain second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database.

And the second processing module 130 is configured to determine whether the first key information and the second key information are matched, and if the matching is successful, obtain vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database.

And the first sending module 140 is configured to send the vehicle position information to the terminal device, so that the user determines the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 5, as shown in fig. 6, the apparatus may further include:

the obtaining module 150 is configured to obtain the target vehicle device having the second parking information database when it is known that the first parking information database does not include the vehicle information.

The second sending module 160 is configured to send the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle device, so that the target vehicle device queries the location of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 5, as shown in fig. 7, the apparatus may further include:

the preprocessing module 170 is configured to obtain parking information sent by a vehicle to be searched through a wireless network, and store the parking information in a first parking information database.

The parking information may include, but is not limited to, vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched, second key information, and vehicle position information.

The wireless network may comprise, among other things, a dedicated short-range communications DSRC network.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, as shown in fig. 8, the apparatus may further include:

the first forwarding module 180 is configured to forward the parking information to other vehicle devices, so that the other vehicle devices store the parking information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, as shown in fig. 9, the apparatus may further include:

the third processing module 190 is configured to delete the parking information in the first parking information database when a distance between the current position where the vehicle device travels and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold. Or after the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold value, when the vehicle equipment is monitored to perform information interaction with a road side information station encountered for the first time, the parking information is forwarded to the central server through the road side information station, and the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 7, as shown in fig. 10, the apparatus may further include:

the second receiving module 200 is configured to receive a deletion notification for deleting the parking information, where the deletion notification includes vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched and the first key information.

And the deleting module 210 is configured to delete the parking information in the first parking information database when it is determined that the first parking information database contains the vehicle information and it is determined that the second key information matches the first key information.

It should be noted that, the structures of the second receiving module 200 and the deleting module 210 in the apparatus embodiment shown in fig. 10 may also be included in the apparatus embodiment shown in fig. 8 or fig. 9, and the implementation is not limited thereto.

In an embodiment of the present invention, on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 10, as shown in fig. 11, the apparatus may further include:

the second forwarding module 220 is configured to forward the deletion notification to the target vehicle device, so that the target vehicle device deletes the parking information in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

It should be noted that the explanation of the embodiment of the car searching method is also applicable to the car searching device of the embodiment, and is not repeated herein.

In order to implement the above embodiment, the present invention also provides a vehicle device, which may include the vehicle finding device of the above embodiment.

It should be noted that the explanation of the embodiment of the car-searching device is also applicable to the car-searching device of the embodiment, and the description thereof is omitted here.

In order to implement the above embodiments, the present invention further provides an electronic device, including: the vehicle searching method comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program which is stored on the memory and can run on the processor, wherein when the processor executes the program, the vehicle searching method of the embodiment is realized.

In order to implement the above embodiments, the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, where the computer program is executed by a processor to implement the vehicle searching method of the above embodiments.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention further provides a computer program product, which when executed by an instruction processor in the computer program product, executes the car seeking method of the above embodiment of the present invention.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

Any process or method descriptions in flow charts or otherwise described herein may be understood as representing modules, segments, or portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for implementing steps of a custom logic function or process, and alternate implementations are included within the scope of the preferred embodiment of the present invention in which functions may be executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, as would be understood by those reasonably skilled in the art of the present invention.

The logic and/or steps represented in the flowcharts or otherwise described herein, e.g., an ordered listing of executable instructions that can be considered to implement logical functions, can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions. For the purposes of this description, a "computer-readable medium" can be any means that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium would include the following: an electrical connection (electronic device) having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette (magnetic device), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber device, and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CDROM). Additionally, the computer-readable medium could even be paper or another suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program can be electronically captured, via for instance optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted or otherwise processed in a suitable manner if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory.

It should be understood that portions of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. In the above embodiments, the various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. If implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, any one or combination of the following techniques, which are known in the art, may be used: a discrete logic circuit having a logic gate circuit for implementing a logic function on a data signal, an application specific integrated circuit having an appropriate combinational logic gate circuit, a Programmable Gate Array (PGA), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or the like.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps carried by the method for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware related to instructions of a program, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and when the program is executed, the program includes one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing module, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. The integrated module, if implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium.

The storage medium mentioned above may be a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, etc. Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A vehicle searching method is applied to vehicle equipment and comprises the following steps:

receiving a vehicle searching request sent by terminal equipment, wherein the vehicle searching request comprises vehicle information of a vehicle to be searched and first secret key information;

inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if the first parking information database is known to contain the vehicle information, acquiring second key information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database;

judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information or not, and if the matching is successful, acquiring vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database;

and sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that a user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, acquiring target vehicle equipment with a second parking information database, wherein the vehicle information of the second parking information database is different from that of the first parking information database;

and sending the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle equipment so that the target vehicle equipment queries the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the method comprises the steps of obtaining parking information sent by the vehicle to be searched through a wireless network, and storing the parking information in a first parking information database, wherein the parking information comprises vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched, second key information and vehicle position information.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the wireless network comprises a dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) network.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

and forwarding the parking information to other vehicle equipment so that the other vehicle equipment stores the parking information.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the distance between the current position where the vehicle equipment runs and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold; or,

after the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold value, when the vehicle equipment is monitored to perform information interaction with a roadside information site encountered for the first time, the parking information is forwarded to a central server through the roadside information site, and the parking information in the first parking information database is deleted.

7. The method of any one of claims 3-6, further comprising:

receiving a deletion notification of deleting the parking information, the deletion notification including the vehicle information and the first key information of the vehicle to be searched;

and deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the first parking information database is determined to contain the vehicle information and the second key information is determined to be matched with the first key information.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

forwarding the deletion notification to the target vehicle device to cause the target vehicle device to delete the parking information in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

9. A vehicle searching device is applied to vehicle equipment and comprises:

the system comprises a first receiving module, a second receiving module and a third receiving module, wherein the first receiving module is used for receiving a vehicle searching request sent by a terminal device, and the vehicle searching request comprises vehicle information of a vehicle to be searched and first secret key information;

the first processing module is used for inquiring a pre-stored first parking information database according to the vehicle information, and if the first parking information database is known to contain the vehicle information, second key information corresponding to the vehicle information is acquired from the first parking information database;

the second processing module is used for judging whether the first key information is matched with the second key information or not, and if the matching is successful, acquiring vehicle position information corresponding to the vehicle information from the first parking information database;

and the first sending module is used for sending the vehicle position information to the terminal equipment so that a user can determine the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the vehicle position information.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:

the acquisition module is used for acquiring target vehicle equipment with a second parking information database when the first parking information database does not contain the vehicle information, wherein the second parking information database is different from the first parking information database in vehicle information;

and the second sending module is used for sending the vehicle searching request to the target vehicle equipment so as to enable the target vehicle equipment to inquire the position of the vehicle to be searched according to the second parking information database.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

the system comprises a preprocessing module and a first parking information database, wherein the preprocessing module is used for acquiring parking information sent by the vehicle to be searched through a wireless network and storing the parking information in the first parking information database, and the parking information comprises vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched, second key information and vehicle position information.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the wireless network comprises a Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) network.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

and the first forwarding module is used for forwarding the parking information to other vehicle equipment so that the other vehicle equipment stores the parking information.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

the third processing module is used for deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the distance between the current running position of the vehicle equipment and the position of the vehicle to be searched exceeds a preset distance threshold; or,

15. The apparatus of any one of claims 12-14, further comprising:

a second receiving module, configured to receive a deletion notification for deleting the parking information, where the deletion notification includes the vehicle information of the vehicle to be searched and the first key information;

and the deleting module is used for deleting the parking information in the first parking information database when the first parking information database is determined to contain the vehicle information and the second key information is determined to be matched with the first key information.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

and the second forwarding module is used for forwarding the deletion notification to the target vehicle device so that the target vehicle device deletes the parking information in the second parking information database according to the deletion notification.

17. A vehicular apparatus characterized by comprising: a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the processor implementing the vehicle finding method according to any one of claims 1-8 when executing the program.

18. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the vehicle finding method according to any one of claims 1 to 8.