JP2005215785A - Parking lot management program, parking lot management device and parking lot management method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking lot management program for deciding a parking space, and for notifying the parking space based on vehicle information and passenger information and environmental information in a parking lot recognized by using an image recognition technology. <P>SOLUTION: This parking lot management program is provided so as to be executed by a computer for managing a parking lot equipped with a plurality of parking spaces by providing one parking space for one vehicle. This parking lot management program is to acquire image data concerning a vehicle, and to recognize the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the getting-off location of a passenger in the vehicle from the image data (passenger recognition processing 4), and to collate parking space information showing information related with the size of the parking space and information related with any obstacle in the periphery of the parking space with the getting-on information (parking space decision processing 5), and to notify a collation result by the collation procedure (parking space notification processing 6). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a parking lot management program, a parking lot management device, and a parking lot management method for efficiently distributing vehicles in a parking lot.

Conventionally, there is a system related to parking lot management that determines a parking place based on vehicle information recognized using an image recognition technique, and the following inventions are disclosed. When the car moves to the entrance of the parking lot, an image is input by the camera provided directly above the car, the image pattern of the car is identified by image processing, and the car size (vertical and horizontal dimensions) is calculated. , By acquiring area information (vertical dimensions and horizontal dimensions) of each registered parking space and the input information of the empty vehicle detection sensor, obtain the area information of the empty space and compare the information with the calculated size of the vehicle. The parking space where the empty space is larger than the size of the vehicle is displayed on the display board, and the driver is guided to an appropriate space (for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent No. 2736187

  However, for example, when the driver is only the driver, the passenger information such that the passenger side door is rarely opened is not considered. For this reason, the parking lot management system which determines a parking place in consideration of passenger information in addition to vehicle information has been desired.

In addition, when parking a car in a complex parking space, it was difficult not only to put a burden on the driver but also to promote efficient parking from the standpoint of the parking lot manager ( (For users, parking fees are lost for the time required to park, and for administrators, admission efficiency is reduced and business opportunities can be lost.)
Thus, conventionally, there has not been a parking management system that takes into consideration the situation around the parking space (that is, information on obstacles around the parking place). The burden and time burden were forced.

  In view of the above problems, in the present invention, a parking lot management that determines a parking place based on vehicle information recognized using image recognition technology, passenger information, and environmental information in the parking lot, and notifies the parking place. A program, a parking lot management device, and a parking lot management method are provided.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the object is to provide one parking place for each vehicle and to execute a computer to manage the parking lot having the plurality of parking places. A parking lot management program for acquiring image data relating to the vehicle and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position of the rider riding in the vehicle from the image data A verification procedure, a verification procedure for verifying information about the size of the parking location and information regarding obstacles around the parking location, and the boarding information, and a verification result by the verification procedure. This can be achieved by providing a parking lot management program for causing a computer to execute the notification procedure for notification.

  By comprising in this way, a parking place can be determined based on the vehicle information recognized using the image recognition technique, passenger information, and the environmental information in a parking lot, and the parking place can be notified.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the collation procedure determines whether or not the vehicle falls within a size range of the parking place, and further, the obstacle Can be achieved by providing the parking lot management program according to claim 1 for causing a computer to execute a procedure for determining whether or not the vehicle is at the dismounting position of the vehicle.

By comprising in this way, the parking place which considered the obstacle around a parking place can be notified.
According to the invention described in claim 3 of the present invention, the parking location information includes priority information based on information related to the obstacle around the parking location, and the verification As a result of collation by the procedure, a predetermined procedure for determining the predetermined parking location information based on the priority information from a plurality of the parking location information determined that the vehicle can be parked is further executed on the computer. This can be achieved by providing a parking lot management program according to claim 1.

  By configuring in this way, priority can be set for the parking place, so that the parking place according to the priority can be provided to the user, and the parking lot can be used efficiently.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 of the scope of the present invention, in a parking lot management device that provides one parking place per vehicle and manages a parking lot that includes the plurality of parking places, Passenger recognition means for acquiring image data relating to the vehicle, recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position at which the passenger is getting on the vehicle from the image data, and the size of the parking place Parking location information indicating information on the distance and information on obstacles around the parking location, verification means for verifying the boarding information, and notification means for notifying the verification result by the verification means This can be achieved by providing a parking management device characterized by the above.

  By comprising in this way, a parking place can be determined based on the vehicle information recognized using the image recognition technique, passenger information, and the environmental information in a parking lot, and the parking place can be notified.

  According to the invention described in claim 5 of the claims, in the parking lot management method for providing one parking place per vehicle and managing a parking lot having the plurality of parking places, Obtaining image data relating to the vehicle, recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the exit position of the passenger riding in the vehicle from the image data, and information relating to the size of the parking place and the This can be achieved by providing a parking lot management method in which parking place information indicating information about obstacles around the parking place and the boarding information are collated and the result of the collation is notified.

  By comprising in this way, a parking place can be determined based on the vehicle information recognized using the image recognition technique, passenger information, and the environmental information in a parking lot, and the parking place can be notified.

  In the present invention, a parking location can be determined based on vehicle information and passenger information recognized using image recognition technology, and the vehicle can be guided to the parking location, so that the parking space can be used efficiently. Can do.

  When the vehicle enters the parking lot, the present invention determines the parking location based on the vehicle information recognized using the image recognition technology, the passenger information, and the environmental information in the parking lot registered in advance. A parking lot management system for guiding a vehicle to the parking place is provided. Specifically, if the driver is only a driver, it is considered that the possibility of opening the door on the passenger seat side is low, and the space where the passenger seat side is small but the vehicle can be stopped is a parking place Determine as.

<First Embodiment>
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an outline of a configuration of a parking lot management system according to the present embodiment. The parking lot management system 1 includes a parking place input process 2, a passenger recognition / parking place output process 3, and an entry process 7. In the passenger recognition / parking place output process 3, the processes of the passenger recognition process 4, the parking place determination process 5, and the parking place notification process 6 are executed.

  In the parking place input process 2, since information related to a parking place, which will be described later, is inputted by the parking lot manager A, the inputted information is stored in a predetermined storage device (storage device 17 in FIG. 2) of this system. .

  In the passenger recognition / parking location output process 3, information on the vehicle of the parking lot user B is acquired (registered), so the door use flag, the boarding position, etc. are recognized by the passenger recognition process 4 from the acquired information. The parking location is determined by the parking location determination processing 5 and the parking location determined by the parking location notification processing 6 is notified.

In the participation process 7, since a parking ticket is returned from the parking lot user B, the process regarding it is performed.
FIG. 2 is a configuration block diagram of the hardware environment of the parking lot management system in the present embodiment. In the figure, the server device 10 of the parking lot management system 1 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 12, a read only memory (ROM) 13, a random access memory (RAM) 16, a communication interface (hereinafter, the interface is referred to as I / F). 14, storage device 17, output I / F 11, input I / F 15, portable storage medium reader 18, bus 19 to which all of them are connected, output device 20 connected to output I / F 11, input The input device 11 is connected to the I / F 15.

  Various types of storage devices such as a hard disk and a magnetic disk can be used as the storage device 17, and a program of a flow to be described later is stored in the storage device 17 or the ROM 13. Further, the storage device 17 is also used as a parking place database (hereinafter referred to as DB) which will be described later.

  The above program is stored in the storage device 17, for example, via the network 22 and the communication I / F 14 from the program provider side, or stored and read in a portable storage medium that is commercially available and distributed. It can be set in the device 18 and executed by the CPU 12. As a portable storage medium, various types of storage media such as CD-ROM, flexible disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, and IC card can be used, and a program stored in such a storage medium is read by the reading device 18. Read.

  As the input device 21, a keyboard, a mouse, an electronic camera, a microphone, a scanner, a sensor, a tablet, or the like can be used. The output device 20 can be a display, a printer, a speaker, or the like. The network 72 may be a communication network such as the Internet, a LAN, a WAN, a dedicated line, a wired line, and a wireless line.

  FIG. 3 shows a flow of parking place input processing in the present embodiment. In the operation of this system, information regarding the parking place in the parking lot must be registered in advance in this system. This flow explains the registration.

  When the parking lot manager A activates the system, the program of the system stored in the storage device 17 is read by the CPU 12. Then, since the menu screen of this system is displayed on the display, a parking place input screen is selected from the menu screen, and the screen is displayed on the display (step S1, hereinafter, step is abbreviated as S).

  Next, the parking lot manager A uses the input device 21 such as a keyboard to enter parking location information (for example, the depth, width, height of the parking lot, When the failure information is input (S2), the input parking location information is registered in the parking location DB 30 in the server 10 of the parking management system 1 under the control of the CPU 12.

The process of S2 is repeated until the parking location information regarding all the parking locations in the parking lot is input (S3), and this flow ends when all the parking location information is input.
FIG. 4 shows an example of a parking location information table registered in the parking location DB 30 in S2 of FIG. The parking place information table 40 includes “parking place ID”, “depth”, “width”, “height”, “right front obstacle”, “left front obstacle”, “right rear obstacle”, “left rear obstacle”, “parking”. It is composed of a plurality of pieces of parking place information in which the item “flag” is one record. The “parking place ID” uniquely represents each parking place existing in the parking lot managed by the present system.

  “Depth” is the depth of the parking place (in this embodiment, represented by “cm”). The “width” is the width of the parking place (in this embodiment, represented by “cm”). The depth is the depth of the parking place (in this embodiment, expressed by “cm”). “Height” is the vehicle height of a car that can be parked (in this embodiment, represented by “cm”). This “height” may be, for example, a limited vehicle height in the case of a three-dimensional parking lot, or a vehicle height limited due to trees overgrown above the parking place in an outdoor parking lot. .

  Right front, left front, right rear, and left rear of “Right front obstacle”, “Left front obstacle”, “Right rear obstacle”, and “Left rear obstacle” are the right front door, left front door, right rear door, left rear, respectively. Represents a door. In addition, “Right front failure”, “Left front failure”, “Right rear failure”, and “Left rear failure” can be opened completely because there is a failure when trying to open each door. No is indicated by “1” (the door cannot be opened due to a failure) or 0 (the door can be opened because there is no failure).

  For example, in the parking place ID: 001, a car having a depth of 400 [cm], a width: 180 [cm], and a height (vehicle height): 200 [cm] can be stopped. It can be seen that only the right front door can be fully opened.

  The “parking flag” is a flag indicating whether or not the vehicle is parked at the parking location corresponding to the “parking location ID”, and is “0” when not parked and “1” when parked. It is represented by

  FIG. 5 shows a parking gate system according to the present embodiment. In the figure, the gate system 50 includes a front camera 51, a gate 52, a ticket issuing device 53, and a side camera 56. The gate 52 is a gate that blocks the vehicle C from entering the parking lot when entry is not permitted. The ticket issuing device 53 includes a display unit 54 that displays various messages in the ticketing process and a ticket issuing unit 55 that issues a parking ticket.

  The front camera 51 is attached in the vicinity of the center of the gate 52 and photographs the inside of the vehicle C from the front direction of the vehicle C (X direction in the drawing). The side camera 56 photographs the inside of the vehicle C from the side direction of the vehicle C (Y direction in the figure).

  FIG. 6 shows an image obtained by photographing the inside of the vehicle from the front direction and the side direction of the vehicle C in the present embodiment. FIG. 6A shows an image when the interior of the vehicle C is photographed by the front camera 51 from the front direction of the vehicle C (X direction in FIG. 5). FIG. 6B shows an image when the inside of the vehicle C is photographed from the side surface direction (Y direction in the drawing) of the vehicle by the side surface camera 56.

  FIG. 7 shows a flow of the passenger recognition / parking location output process 3 in the present embodiment. First, the parking lot user B enters the vehicle C just before the gate 52 in order to enter the parking lot (see FIG. 5). Then, the gate system 50 detects that the vehicle C has entered before the gate 52.

  This detection may be detected at the timing when the parking lot user B that has entered the front of the gate 52 presses the ticketing button provided on the ticketing device 53, or at any location near the gate 52. A sensor may be installed, and when the vehicle C enters the gate 52, it may be detected by the sensor.

  When it is detected that the vehicle C has entered the gate 52 in this way, the front camera 51 and the side camera 56 are operated, and the front camera (X direction) and the side direction (Y direction) are operated by the respective cameras. The interior of the vehicle C is photographed, and the photographed image data (see FIG. 6) is transmitted to the server 10.

  In the server 10, the received image data is converted into information on the size of the vehicle (vehicle width, vehicle body length, vehicle height), information on how many doors are attached, vehicle C using image recognition technology. Boarding information (information on how many people are in the vehicle C and at which position) is acquired (S10).

  The image recognition technique uses a general method (for example, Patent Document 1). As an example, an image when the vehicle has not entered the gate is previously captured by the front camera 51 and the side camera 56, and the captured image data is stored. Then, the front camera 51 and the side camera 56 take an image when the vehicle enters the gate, and subtract the pre-stored image before entering the vehicle from this image to obtain the difference.

  Since the difference image represents a vehicle that has entered, edge processing is performed to detect the outer edge of the vehicle, and the vehicle body length, vehicle width, and vehicle height of the vehicle that has entered the gate are calculated based on the detected edge. The boarding information is also acquired using the same image recognition technique as described above. In this way, passenger information is created from the information on the vehicle acquired by the image recognition technique and the information on the boarding position of the passenger (see FIG. 8). As a result of this image processing, for example, information “4-door, 5-seater, small vehicle, one person on the right front” can be acquired from the image of FIG.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of a passenger information table in the present embodiment. The passenger information table 60 includes “vehicle ID”, “body length”, “vehicle width”, “vehicle height”, “right front door use flag”, “left front door use flag”, “right rear door use flag”, “ It is composed of one or more pieces of passenger information in which the item “left rear door use flag” is one record. “Vehicle ID” is for identifying the passenger information in the passenger information table 60 and is unique in the passenger information table 60.

The “body length”, “vehicle width”, and “vehicle height” are expressed in centimeters in the present embodiment.
“Right front door use flag”, “Left front door use flag”, “Right rear door use flag”, and “Left rear door use flag” are respectively the right front door side seat, the left front door side seat, and the right rear door side It represents whether or not a person is in the seat and the seat on the left rear door side. In other words, the person who gets in each seat uses the right door in the right front door, for example, because the passenger in the right front seat uses the right front door, based on the premise that the passenger uses the door closest to each seat. “1” is stored, and “0” is stored in the “right front door use flag” if there is no passenger in the seat.

  Based on the above, for example, the vehicle represented by the vehicle ID: 001 is a vehicle having a vehicle body length: 303 [cm], a vehicle width: 150 [cm], and a vehicle height: 112 [cm]. You can see that you are using the right front door because you are sitting in the right front seat.

  Now, FIG. 7 will be described again. After the process of S10, a variable i for counting parking place information records (hereinafter referred to as records) included in the parking place information table 40 is initialized to i = 0. Further, the number of all parking place information records included in the parking place information table 40 is stored in the variable N (S11).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the total number of parking place information records N> counter i (S12). Since the counter i = 0, the process proceeds to Yes, the counter i is incremented (S13), and the first record of the parking location information table 40 is read (S14).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the data item “parking flag” of the read record is “0” (S15). If the “parking flag” is other than “0” in S15, the process returns to S12. If the “parking flag” is “0”, the process proceeds to S16.

  Next, among the data items (“depth”, “width”, “height”) indicating the size of the parking place of the read record and the passenger information (see FIG. 8) acquired in S10, the vehicle ("Vehicle length", "vehicle width", "vehicle height") are compared (S16). If “depth” of the parking place ≧ “vehicle length” of the vehicle, “width” of the parking place ≧ “vehicle width” of the vehicle, and “height” of the parking place ≧ “vehicle height” of the vehicle, the vehicle concerned Can be stored in the parking place, the process proceeds to Yes to perform the process of S17. Otherwise, the process proceeds to No and returns to the process of S12.

  Next, it is determined whether or not there is an obstacle in the boarding position of the passenger of the vehicle at the parking place (S17). That is, the “right front door use flag” in the passenger information and the “right front obstacle” in the parking location information are compared, the “left front door use flag” and “right front obstacle” are compared, and the “right rear door use flag” And “Right rear obstacle”, and “Left rear door use flag” and “Left rear obstacle” are compared.

  A comparison between the “right front door use flag” and the “right front obstacle” in the parking location information will be described in detail. For example, in the case where the passenger information is “right front door use flag = 1” (the vehicle is on the right front door side), this corresponds to “right front obstacle” in the parking location information, but “right front obstacle = When it is “1” (the door cannot be opened due to a failure), the passenger cannot get off the dora because the door cannot be opened. When “front right obstacle = 0” (the door cannot be opened because of a fault), the door can be opened and the rider can get off from the dora.

  Therefore, the passenger information and the parking location information are compared, and “right front door use flag = 1” and “right front failure = 1”, “left front door use flag = 1” and “right front failure”, or “ If “Right rear door use flag = 1” and “Right rear door use flag = 1”, or “Left rear door use flag = 1” and “Left rear door failure = 1”, the process proceeds to Yes and returns to the process of S12. In this case, the process proceeds to S18.

  When the process returns to S12 in the above, i is incremented again (S13), the next record is read (S14), the processes of S15, S16 and S17 are performed, and S12-S17 until the determination of No is obtained in S17. Is repeated.

  As a result of repetition up to the last record, if the process proceeds to Yes in S17, the process returns to S12 and proceeds to No. That is, since there is no parking place that satisfies the conditions for accommodating the vehicle in the parking place information table 40, a display indicating “no parking” is output on the display unit 54 of the ticket issuing device 53.

  Now, if it progresses to No at S17, the parking location information of the said record will be output (S18). Here, the parking location information is printed on the parking ticket. This will be described later. Thereafter, the data item “parking flag” of the parking location information record is set to “1” (S19), and this flow ends.

  The passenger information stored in the passenger information table 60 may be deleted when the present flow ends. In this case, the passenger information table 60 may be stored in a temporary area of the RAM 16 or the storage device 17. In this way, memory resources can be used efficiently.

  FIG. 9 shows an output example (No. 1) of the parking ticket in the present embodiment. In the same figure, the parking ticket 70 is comprised from the area | region 72 which shows the parking place 71 and a parking place. The parking place acquired in the flow of FIG. 7 is “001”, and this is displayed in the parking place 71. Moreover, in order to express this parking place more clearly, the parking place is illustrated in the area 72.

  In the area 72, the parking place to be stopped by the vehicle C of the user B who has received the parking ticket is displayed in white and cannot be parked due to other parking places ("002"-"009"), that is, obstacles. The parking place is indicated by shading. In addition, you may make it this parking ticket display an entrance time further.

  FIG. 10 shows an output example (part 2) of the parking ticket in the present embodiment. What is different from the parking ticket of FIG. 9 is that in FIG. 10, route information from the entrance gate to the designated parking place is displayed. In FIG. 10, the admission time is also displayed.

  FIG. 11 shows a flow performed when leaving the parking lot in the present embodiment. When the vehicle C leaves the parking lot, the vehicle C is moved to the exit gate, and the parking ticket is inserted into the parking ticket collection device installed at the exit gate. Then, the parking ticket is collected by the parking ticket collection device.

  Next, the parking ticket collection device reads the parking place (parking place ID) recorded in the parking ticket and transmits the read parking place ID to the server 10. In the server 10, the parking location information having a parking location ID that matches the received parking location ID is extracted from the parking location DB 30. Then, the “parking flag” of the extracted parking location information is updated to “0” (S20).

  From the above, it is possible to provide a parking service that can be parked efficiently and stopped with peace of mind. In addition, a small space can be used effectively, so that people who ride can get on and off easily.

  In this embodiment, the size of the vehicle is calculated by image processing from the image of the photographed vehicle. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and information related to the vehicle type (manufacturer, vehicle type name, vehicle height, vehicle width, vehicle body length) is not limited thereto. ) May be registered in the server, and the size of the vehicle may be calculated by specifying the vehicle type from the captured image by image processing.

Further, when a person is on the rear seat in a two-door type vehicle, the right rear seat may be handled as the right front seat and the left rear seat as the left front seat.
<Second Embodiment>
In the first embodiment, a parking ticket is issued at the time when a parking place that satisfies the conditions (vehicle size, boarding position, etc.) of the vehicle to enter the parking lot is found. Parking places were never extracted.

  In this embodiment, whether or not there is a parking place that satisfies the conditions (vehicle size, boarding position, etc.) of the vehicle to enter the parking lot is checked for all parking places in the parking lot, and the result of the checking When a plurality of parking places are acquired, the environment of the lowest parking place is selected from them. Here, FIG. 12 demonstrates selecting the environment of the lowest parking place from the acquired several parking places.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a manner of selecting a parking place in the present embodiment. In the figure, there are five parking locations 81-85. The parking place 81 is vacant, and there are obstacles on the left side. Parking places 82, 83, and 84 are already parked. The parking place 85 is vacant.

  At this time, when the vehicle 80 with the passenger on the right front is parked, there are parking locations 81 and 85 as candidates for the parking location, and both of them can be parked. A parking place 81 that is a place is selected. This is because if the vehicle 80 is parked in the parking place 85 and a passenger who is newly parked is on the left, this vehicle will not be able to park in the empty parking place 81. Because it is born. By doing in this way, a parking place can be effectively utilized more efficiently.

FIG. 13 shows an example of a parking location information table in the present embodiment. FIG. 13 is obtained by adding the data item “failure degree” to the table of FIG. This degree of failure is
Failure degree = “Right front failure” + “Left front failure” + “Right rear failure” + “Left rear failure”
It can be seen that the greater the obstacle value, the more obstacles there are around the parking place.

  FIG. 14 shows a flow of the flow passenger recognition / parking place output process 3 in the present embodiment. This flow is a modification of FIG. 7 in the first embodiment. Similar to S10 in FIG. 7, information (vehicle width, vehicle body length, vehicle height) and vehicle boarding information relating to the size of the vehicle is acquired using image recognition technology (S30). Next, a variable i for counting parking place information records (hereinafter referred to as records) included in the parking place information table 40 and a variable j for counting records stored in the work area are respectively initialized, i = Assume that 0 and j = 0. Further, the number of all parking place information records included in the parking place information table 40 is stored in the variable N (S31).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the total number of parking place information records N> counter i (S32). Since the counter i = 0, the process proceeds to Yes, the counter i is incremented (S33), and the first record of the parking location information table 40 is read (S34).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the data item “parking flag” of the read record is “0” (S35). If the “parking flag” is other than “0” in S35, the process returns to S32. If the “parking flag” is “0”, the process proceeds to S36.

  Next, as in 16 of FIG. 7, the data items (“depth”, “width”, “height”) indicating the size of the parking place in the read record, and the passenger information acquired in S30. Of these, the size of the vehicle ("vehicle length", "vehicle width", "vehicle height") is compared (S36). If it is determined in S36 that the vehicle can be stored in the parking place, the process proceeds to Yes and the process of S37 is performed. Otherwise, the process proceeds to No and the process returns to S32.

  Next, similarly to 17 in FIG. 7, it is determined whether or not there is an obstacle in the boarding position of the passenger of the vehicle at the parking place (S37). If there is a failure in the boarding position of the passenger of the vehicle, the process proceeds to Yes and returns to the process of S32.

  When the process advances to No in S37, the record is stored in the work area (the temporary area in the RAM 16 or the storage device 17) (S38), the counter j is incremented (S39), and the process returns to S32.

  When returning to S32 in the above, i is incremented again (S33), the next record is read (S34), the processing of S35-S39 is performed, and all the records included in the parking location information table 40 are processed. The loop of S32-S39 is repeated.

  As a result of repetition up to the last record, N> i is not satisfied in S32, so the above loop is exited (the process proceeds to No in S32), and it is determined whether or not the counter j is 0 (S40). That is, it is confirmed whether or not there is a record stored in the work area. The existence of a record stored in the work area means that at least one parking place exists, and the absence of this record means that no parking place satisfies the conditions for accommodating the vehicle. It is. Therefore, when the counter j = 0 (proceeding to Yes in S40), the display unit 54 of the ticket issuing device 53 outputs a display indicating “no parking”.

  Next, when the counter j is other than 0 (proceed to No in S40), the record having the highest failure degree is acquired from the records stored in the work area (S41), and the record (parking location information) is obtained. Print on the parking ticket (S42) and issue the ticket. Thereafter, the data item “parking flag” of the parking location information record is set to “1” (S43), and this flow ends. At the end of this flow, the record stored in the work area is cleared.

  In addition, in this embodiment, the priority which paid its attention to the obstacle (it is selected with priority as the obstacle degree is larger) is used, but not limited to this, for example, the priority with respect to the size of the parking place is set. You may use, and you may use the priority which combined the magnitude | size of the obstruction and the parking place. Here, the priority with respect to the size of the parking place is, for example, when there is an empty parking place with a depth of 270 cm and a depth of 300 cm when the vehicle body length of the vehicle to be parked is 250 cm, the depth is 270 cm. Is to specify a parking place.

As mentioned above, since it can park efficiently, a parking lot can be used effectively.
It should be noted that the first embodiment and the second embodiment may be modified to detect a beginner mark during the image recognition techniques of S10 in FIG. 7 and S30 in FIG. When a beginner mark is detected, a slightly wider parking place may be designated, or a parking place with a low obstacle degree may be designated.

  In this way, for beginners who are unfamiliar with parking, it is possible to ease the paying attention to the surrounding environment (the size of obstacles and parking spaces, etc.) Can be provided.

As described above, beginners should be able to stop with peace of mind by allocating as much space as possible, and to prevent accidents to a minimum.
(Supplementary Note 1) In a parking lot management program for executing a computer to provide one parking place per vehicle and manage a parking lot having the plurality of parking places,
A passenger recognition procedure for acquiring image data relating to the vehicle and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position at which the passenger is getting on the vehicle from the image data;
A verification procedure for verifying the parking location information indicating the information on the size of the parking location and the information on obstacles around the parking location, and the boarding information;
A notification procedure for notifying the verification result of the verification procedure;
A parking lot management program for running a computer.
(Additional remark 2) The said collation procedure determines whether the said vehicle is settled in the range of the magnitude | size of the said parking place, and also the procedure which determines whether the said obstacle exists in the getting-off position of this vehicle. The parking lot management program according to attachment 1, which is executed by a computer.
(Additional remark 3) The priority information based on the information regarding the obstacle around the parking place is included in the parking place information. As a result of the collation by the collation procedure, a plurality of the vehicles determined to be parkable The parking lot management program according to supplementary note 1, further causing a computer to execute a determination procedure for determining the predetermined parking location information from the parking location information based on the priority information.
(Additional remark 4) In the parking lot management apparatus which provides one parking place per vehicle and manages a parking lot provided with the plurality of parking places,
Rider recognition means for obtaining image data relating to the vehicle, and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position of the rider riding in the vehicle from the image data;
A collation means for collating the parking information with the information on the size of the parking place and the information on the obstacles around the parking place and the boarding information;
A notification means for notifying a verification result by the verification means;
A parking lot management device comprising:
(Additional remark 5) In the parking lot management method which provides one parking place per vehicle and manages a parking lot provided with the plurality of parking places,
Obtaining image data relating to the vehicle, recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle from the image data and the position of the passenger getting off the vehicle;
Parking location information indicating information on the size of the parking location and information on obstacles around the parking location, and collation with the boarding information,
A parking lot management method for notifying the result of the verification.
(Supplementary Note 6) A computer-readable recording medium on which a parking lot management program for executing a computer is provided to provide one parking place for each vehicle and manage a parking lot having the plurality of parking places. In
A passenger recognition procedure for acquiring image data relating to the vehicle, and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position of the passenger getting on the vehicle from the image data;
A verification procedure for verifying the information on the size of the parking location and information on obstacles around the parking location and the boarding information;
A notification procedure for notifying the verification result of the verification procedure;
Is a computer-readable recording medium on which a parking lot management program for causing a computer to execute is stored.

It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of a structure of the parking lot management system in 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the hardware environment of the parking lot management system in the first embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow of the parking place input process in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the parking location information table registered into parking location DB30 by S2 of FIG. It is a figure which shows the gate system of the parking lot in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the image image which image | photographed the vehicle interior from the front direction and side surface direction of the vehicle in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow of the passenger recognition and parking place output process 3 in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the passenger information table in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the output example (the 1) of the parking ticket in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the output example (the 2) of the parking ticket in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow performed when leaving from the parking lot in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the mode of selection of the parking place in 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the parking place information table in 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow of the flow passenger recognition and parking place output process 3 in 2nd Embodiment.

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1 Parking lot management system 10 Server 11 Output I / F
12 Central processing unit (CPU)
13 Read-only memory (ROM)
14 Communication interface (I / F)
15 input I / F
16 Random access memory (RAM)
17 Storage device 18 Portable storage medium reader 19 Bus 20 Output device 21 Input device 30 Parking place DB
40 Parking Location Information Table 50 Gate System 51 Front Camera 52 Gate 53 Ticketing Device 54 Display Unit 55 Ticketing Unit 56 Side Camera 60 Passenger Information Table

Claims (5)

In a parking lot management program for executing a computer to provide one parking place per vehicle and manage a parking lot having the plurality of parking places,
A passenger recognition procedure for acquiring image data relating to the vehicle, and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position of the passenger getting on the vehicle from the image data;
A verification procedure for verifying the parking location information indicating the information on the size of the parking location and the information on obstacles around the parking location, and the boarding information;
A notification procedure for notifying the verification result of the verification procedure;
A parking lot management program for running a computer. The verification procedure determines whether or not the vehicle falls within the size range of the parking place, and further executes a procedure for determining whether or not the obstacle is at the getting-off position of the vehicle. The parking lot management program of Claim 1 for making it do. The parking location information includes priority information based on information related to the obstacles around the parking location, and a plurality of the parking locations where it is determined that the vehicle can be parked as a result of verification by the verification procedure. The parking lot management program according to claim 1, further causing a computer to execute a determination procedure for determining the predetermined parking location information based on the priority information from information. In a parking lot management device that provides one parking place per vehicle and manages a parking lot that includes the plurality of parking places,
Rider recognition means for obtaining image data relating to the vehicle, and recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle and the position of the rider riding in the vehicle from the image data;
A collation means for collating the parking information with the information on the size of the parking place and the information on the obstacles around the parking place and the boarding information;
A notification means for notifying a verification result by the verification means;
A parking lot management device comprising: In a parking lot management method for providing one parking place per vehicle and managing a parking lot having the plurality of parking places,
Obtaining image data relating to the vehicle, recognizing the size of the outer shape of the vehicle from the image data and the position of the passenger getting off the vehicle;
Check the parking location information indicating the information on the size of the parking location and the information on obstacles around the parking location, and the boarding information,
A parking lot management method for notifying the result of the verification.

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