JP2009157740A - Parking management device, parking management method, parking management program and program recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking management device which surely specifies an individual user's vehicle in car entrance and exit to and from a parking lot to prevent theft of a vehicle even without memorizing a number of a parking space or holding a use certificate by a user. <P>SOLUTION: Biological information about the user, which is input in a biological information acquisition function 106 of a parking management terminal 104 in car entrance and exit to/from the parking lot is transmitted to each vehicle parking in the parking lot via a communication device 103. Each vehicle which receives the biological information from the parking management terminal 104 collates the biological information with biological information about the user himself/herself stored in a biological information recording function 302 by a biological information collation function 303 and returns a collation result to the parking management terminal 104. The parking management terminal 104 which receives the collation result of the biological information from each vehicle operates a vehicle fixing device 102 of a parking space 101 where the vehicle 300 which returns information indicating that the biological information matches each other as the collation result parks, fixes the vehicle 300 in car entrance, and releases fixation of the vehicle 300 in car exit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a parking management device, a parking management method, a parking management program, and a program recording medium.

  As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-048424, “Parking lot management system” in Patent Document 1, a conventional parking lot remembers the number of a parking space where a user is parked, and starts parking or It was necessary to input the number of the parking space at the end, or to store a usage certificate corresponding to the parking space where the user parked.

  Moreover, the fixing device that fixes the vehicle parked in the parking lot is only for preventing unpaid charges, and is not a facility for preventing the user's vehicle from being stolen.

JP 2006-048424 A (page 4-6)

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is possible to store the parking space number or store the card in the parking lot without having to memorize the number. It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking management device, a parking management method, a parking management program, and a program recording medium that can reliably identify the person's vehicle at the time of delivery and can prevent the vehicle from being stolen.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the parking management device, the parking management method, the parking management program, and the program recording medium according to the present invention employ the following characteristic configuration.

  (1) In a parking management device comprising at least a parking management terminal that manages the entry / exit of vehicles to / from a parking lot and a vehicle fixing device that fixes vehicles for each parking space, Biological information recording means for pre-recording biometric information of the user of the vehicle, communication means for communicating with the parking management terminal, biometric information transmitted from the parking management terminal, and biometric information recording means Biometric information collating means for collating recorded biometric information of the user himself / herself, and the parking management terminal inputs the biometric information of the user, and the inputted biometric information is stored in each parking lot. Biological information acquisition means for transmitting to a vehicle; and at least fixing means for operating the vehicle fixing device provided in the parking space to fix or release the parked vehicle. When a vehicle enters the parking lot, the user's biometric information input to the biometric information acquisition means of the parking management terminal is transmitted to each vehicle parked in the parking lot, and then transmitted. The parking management apparatus which fixes the said vehicle by operating the said vehicle fixing device of the parking space where the vehicle which has returned as a collation result with the said biometric information is parked.

  According to the parking management device, parking management method, parking management program, and program recording medium of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

(1) The user does not need to remember the number of the parking space where the vehicle is parked, and does not need to input the number of the parking space at the start of parking (at the time of entry) or at the end (at the time of delivery).
(2) The user does not need to store a usage certificate corresponding to the parking space where the user is parked.
(3) The user can perform the fixation of the vehicle at the time of warehousing and the unlocking of the vehicle at the time of evacuation only by inputting the biological information.
(4) Since the user's biometric information is recorded in the vehicle, it is not necessary to manage the user's biometric information on the parking lot side.
(5) If the biometric information recorded in the parked vehicle does not match the biometric information of the user entered at the time of delivery, the parked vehicle cannot be fixed, preventing theft. An effect is obtained.
(6) It is possible to prevent a user from mistakenly paying a usage fee for another parked vehicle.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of a parking management device, a parking management method, a parking management program, and a program recording medium according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, the parking management device and the parking management method according to the present invention will be described. However, the parking management method may be implemented as a parking management program that can be executed by a computer, or parking management. Needless to say, the program may be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium.

(Features of the present invention)
The biometric information of the user himself / herself is stored in the vehicle, and the user's vehicle is specified by comparing the biometric information with the biometric information transmitted from the parking management device.

  That is, according to the present invention, the biometric information of the user is stored in the parked vehicle, and the biometric information in the vehicle and the biometric information of the user input when entering / exiting the parking lot are determined as the biometric information of the same person. The vehicle is fixed at the start of parking and unlocked at the end of parking.

(Configuration of Example)
1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a parking management device according to the present invention, and shows an example where there are six parking spaces 101 as an arrangement of a parking lot 100. FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram showing an example of a more detailed configuration of the parking management device according to the present invention, which is mounted on each of the parking lot management terminal 104 and the parked vehicle 300 that are important as components of the present invention. Indicates the function.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the parking management device according to the present invention includes a vehicle fixing device 102 that fixes a parked vehicle 300, a communication device 103 that communicates with the parked vehicle 300, and a parking management that manages the parked vehicle 300. It is comprised from the parking lot 100 provided with the terminal 104 at least, and the vehicle 300 to park.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the parking management terminal 104 has a fixed function 105 that controls the fixing operation and the fixing release operation of the vehicle fixing device 102, and a living body that acquires the biological information of the user who enters and exits the vehicle 300. At least an information acquisition function 106 is provided. The vehicle 300 also has a communication function 301 for communicating with the communication device 103 of the parking lot 100, a biometric information acquisition function 304 for acquiring biometric information of the user of the vehicle 300, and a biometric information recording function for recording the acquired biometric information. 302, at least a biometric information collating function 303 for collating the acquired biometric information with the biometric information of the user who enters and exits the vehicle 300.

  The vehicle fixing device 102 has a function of fixing and prohibiting movement of the parked vehicle 300 as a fixing operation, and is installed in each parking space 101. In the present embodiment, for example, the parked vehicle 300 is fixed by raising an iron bar in front of the parked vehicle 300 or by raising a fixing plate at the bottom of the vehicle 300. The communication device 103 has a function of performing communication with the communication function 301 mounted on the vehicle 300 by a communication method such as DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication), and transmitting and receiving data. 101.

  As described above, the parking management terminal 104 operates the vehicle fixing device 102 to fix the vehicle 300 to be stored and to release the fixation of the vehicle 300 to be stored, It has at least a biometric information acquisition function 106 that captures the biometric information of a user who goes out and a general charge collection function. The biological information collected by the biological information acquisition function 106 of the parking management terminal 104 is transmitted to the vehicle 300 via the communication device 103, and the verification result of the biological information transmitted from the vehicle 300 is transmitted via the communication device 103. Received. In this embodiment, the biometric information acquisition function 106 will be described as a fingerprint reading sensor, for example, and a fingerprint image is collected as biometric information.

  The communication function 301 provided in the vehicle 300 has a function of communicating with the communication device 103 of the parking lot 100 and transmitting / receiving data. In this embodiment, the communication function 301 is a DSRC in-vehicle device that can handle, for example, an ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System) card.

  The biometric information matching function 303 compares the biometric information of the person registered in the biometric information recording function 302 with the biometric information given from the communication function 301 or the biometric information acquisition function 304, and determines whether the biometric information of the same person is present. It has the function to discriminate.

(Description of operation of the embodiment)
Next, an example of the operation of the parking management device of FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described in detail with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation of the parking management device according to the present invention when the vehicle 300 enters the parking lot 100. FIG. 4 shows the operation according to the present invention when the vehicle 300 leaves the parking lot 100. It is a flowchart explaining an example of operation | movement in a parking management apparatus.

  First, an example of the operation until the user parks the vehicle 300 in the empty parking space 101 of the parking lot 100 and leaves the parking lot 100 will be described using the flowchart of FIG. After the user's vehicle 300 enters the parking lot 100 (step S1), the user parks the vehicle 300 in the empty parking space 101 of the parking lot 100 (step S2). The user gets off the vehicle 300 and inputs his / her fingerprint as biometric information into the biometric information acquisition function 106 of the parking management terminal 104 of the parking lot 100 (step S3).

  The parking management terminal 104 transmits the fingerprint image of the user input from the biometric information acquisition function 106 to each parked vehicle 300 using the communication device 103 (step S4). Each vehicle 300 collates the received fingerprint image with the fingerprint image registered in the vehicle 300, and transmits the collation result to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication function 301 (step S11). For example, in the case of a user's vehicle 300 that has input a fingerprint, a fingerprint image sent from the communication device 103 to the communication function 301 is converted into biometric information registered in the biometric information recording function 302 by the biometric information matching function 303. The comparison and the result of matching are transmitted from the communication function 301 to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication device 103. On the other hand, other vehicles other than the vehicle 300 transmit the result of the mismatch to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication device 103 because the matching results do not match.

  The parking management terminal 104 can specify the vehicle 300 in which the biometric information of the user is registered from the collation result of each vehicle parked in the parking lot 100 (step S5). When the vehicle 300 is specified, the fixing function 105 operates the vehicle fixing device 102 in the corresponding parking space 101 to fix the specified vehicle 300 (step S6). After that, the parking management terminal 104 starts counting the usage time of the parking lot 100 (step S7), and the user leaves the parking lot 100 (step S8) and completes parking in the parking lot 100 ( Step S9).

  Next, an example of an operation until the user parks the vehicle 300 from the parking space 101 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the user enters the parking lot 100 to leave the vehicle 300 (step S21), his / her fingerprint is input as biometric information to the biometric information acquisition function 106 of the parking management terminal 104 (step S22). The parking management terminal 104 transmits the fingerprint image input from the biometric information acquisition function 106 to each parked vehicle 300 using the communication device 103 (step S23).

  Each vehicle 300 collates the received fingerprint image with the fingerprint image registered in the vehicle 300, and transmits the collation result to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication function 301 (step S31). For example, in the case of a user's vehicle 300 that has input a fingerprint, a fingerprint image sent from the communication device 103 to the communication function 301 is converted into biometric information registered in the biometric information recording function 302 by the biometric information matching function 303. The comparison and the result of matching are transmitted from the communication function 301 to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication device 103. On the other hand, other vehicles other than the vehicle 300 transmit the result of the mismatch to the parking management terminal 104 via the communication device 103 because the matching results do not match.

  Thereafter, the parking management terminal 104 can identify the vehicle 300 in which the user's biometric information is registered from the verification result of each vehicle parked in the parking lot 100 (step S24). When the vehicle 300 is specified, the parking management terminal 104 calculates a usage fee from the usage time count result, and collects the usage fee of the vehicle 300 using the fee collection function, if necessary (Steps). S25). At the same time, the vehicle fixing device 102 in the corresponding parking space 101 is operated by the fixing function 105 to release the vehicle 300 (step S26). The user gets on the vehicle 300, leaves the parking lot 100 (step S27), and ends the parking (step S28).

(Another embodiment of the present invention)
FIG. 5 is a detailed configuration diagram showing an example different from FIG. 2 of the more detailed configuration of the parking management device according to the present invention, in which the biometric information matching function is provided in the parking management terminal 104 instead of the vehicle 300 side. Show. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, a biometric information matching function 303 for matching biometric information is installed in the parking management terminal 104, and the user's fingerprint input from the biometric information acquisition function 106 of the parking management terminal 104. The biometric information of the biometric information recording function 302 of each vehicle 300 transmitted from the communication function 301 of the vehicle 300 is collated with the image via the communication device 103.

  The parking management terminal 104 identifies the user's vehicle 300 to which the fingerprint has been input from the collation result, controls the fixing function 105, and corresponds to the parking space 101 in which the vehicle 300 is parked. The operation of 102 can be controlled.

  In the above description, the case of using a fingerprint as biometric information has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this case. For example, an iris or a voiceprint may be used as biometric information.

(Explanation of the effect of this embodiment)
As described above, the effects of this embodiment are as follows.
(1) The user does not need to memorize the number of the parking space 101 that is parked, and does not need to input the number of the parking space 101 at the start of parking (when entering) or at the end (when leaving). .
(2) The user does not need to store a usage certificate corresponding to the parking space 101 that is parked.
(3) The user can fix the vehicle 300 at the time of entering and unlock the vehicle 300 at the time of leaving by simply inputting the biometric information.
(4) Since the user's biological information is recorded in the vehicle 300, there is no need to store and manage the user's biological information on the parking lot 100 side.
(5) If the biometric information recorded in the parked vehicle 300 and the biometric information of the user input at the time of delivery do not match, the parked vehicle cannot be fixed, so theft prevention The effect is obtained.
(6) It is possible to prevent a user from mistakenly paying a usage fee for another parked vehicle.

The configuration of the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above. However, it should be noted that such examples are merely illustrative of the invention and do not limit the invention in any way. Those skilled in the art will readily understand that various modifications and changes can be made according to a specific application without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, the embodiment of the present invention can be expressed as the following configuration in addition to the configuration (1) in the means for solving the problems.
(2) When leaving a vehicle from the parking lot, the user's biometric information input to the biometric information acquisition means of the parking management terminal is transmitted to each vehicle parked in the parking lot, and then The vehicle fixing device in the parking space where the vehicle that has returned the matching result with the transmitted biometric information matches is operated by the fixing means, and the vehicle is released from fixing. (1) Parking management device.
(3) In a parking management device that includes at least a parking management terminal that manages entry / exit of vehicles to / from a parking lot and a vehicle fixing device that fixes vehicles for each parking space, At least a biometric information recording unit that records biometric information of the user of the vehicle in advance, and a communication unit that communicates with the parking management terminal; and the parking management terminal stores the biometric information of the user. A biometric information acquisition unit that requests transmission of the biometric information of the user himself / herself recorded in the biometric information recording unit of each vehicle in the parking lot, and a user input to the biometric information acquisition unit Biological information collating means for collating the biological information with the biological information transmitted from each vehicle, and fixing or fixing the vehicle parked by operating the vehicle fixing device provided in the parking space. Fixing means for releasing the fixation, and when the vehicle enters the parking lot, the biometric information of the user input to the biometric information acquisition means as a verification result in the biometric information verification means of the parking management terminal The parking management apparatus which operates the said vehicle fixing device of the parking space in which the vehicle which transmitted the information and the biometric information which corresponds corresponds with the said fixing means, and fixes the said vehicle.
(4) When leaving the vehicle from the parking lot, the biometric information that matches the biometric information of the user input to the biometric information acquisition unit is transmitted as a verification result in the biometric information verification unit of the parking management terminal. The parking management device according to (3), wherein the vehicle fixing device in the parking space in which the vehicle has been parked is operated by the fixing means to release the vehicle.
(5) The parking management device according to any one of (1) to (4), wherein any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a voiceprint is used as the biological information.
(6) The parking management device according to any one of (1) to (5), wherein a DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) method is used as a communication method between the parking management terminal and the vehicle in the parking lot.
(7) The parking management device according to (6), wherein a DSRC in-vehicle device capable of handling an ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System) card is used as the vehicle communication means.
(8) A parking management method for managing entry / exit of vehicles in a parking lot. When entering a vehicle in the parking lot, the parking information is parked in the parking lot with biometric information input by a user when entering the parking lot. The vehicle is fixed in the parking space where the vehicle in which the matching biometric information is recorded as a result of collation is collated with the biometric information of the user of each vehicle recorded in advance in each vehicle. A parking management method for operating a device and fixing a vehicle.
(9) When leaving a vehicle from the parking lot, the biological information input by the user when leaving the vehicle and the user of each vehicle recorded in advance in each vehicle parked in the parking lot (8) The above-described (8) is performed by collating with the biometric information of the person himself / herself and operating the vehicle fixing device in the parking space where the vehicle in which the matching biometric information is recorded as the collation result is parked. Parking management method.
(10) The parking management method according to (8) or (9), wherein any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a voiceprint is used as the biological information.
(11) The parking management method according to any one of (8) to (10), wherein a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) method is used as a communication method with the vehicle.
(12) A parking management program in which the parking management method according to any one of (8) to (11) is implemented as a program executable by a computer.
(13) A program recording medium in which the parking management program of (12) is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the whole structure of the parking management apparatus by this invention. It is a detailed block diagram which shows an example of a more detailed structure of the parking management apparatus by this invention. It is a flowchart explaining an example of the operation | movement in the parking management apparatus by this invention in case of warehousing a parking lot. It is a flowchart explaining an example of the operation | movement in the parking management apparatus by this invention when leaving a vehicle from a parking lot. It is a detailed block diagram which shows the example different from FIG. 2 of the more detailed structure of the parking management apparatus by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Parking lot 101 Parking space 102 Vehicle fixing apparatus 103 Communication apparatus 104 Parking management terminal 105 Fixing function 106 Biometric information acquisition function 300 Vehicle 301 Communication function 302 Biometric information recording function 303 Biological information collation function 304 Biological information acquisition function

Claims (13)

  In a parking management device comprising at least a parking management terminal for managing entry / exit of a vehicle in a parking lot and a vehicle fixing device for fixing the vehicle for each parking space, the vehicle entering / exiting the parking lot uses the vehicle Recorded in the biometric information recording means for preliminarily recording the person's own biometric information, the communication means for communicating with the parking management terminal, the biometric information transmitted from the parking management terminal, and the biometric information recording means Biometric information collating means for collating with the user's own biometric information, and the parking management terminal inputs the biometric information of the user and transmits the input biometric information to each vehicle in the parking lot. Biometric information acquisition means, and at least fixing means for operating or fixing the vehicle parked by operating the vehicle fixing device provided in a parking space, When a vehicle enters a parking lot, the user's biological information input to the biological information acquisition means of the parking management terminal is transmitted to each vehicle parked in the parking lot, and then the transmitted biological body A parking management device characterized in that the vehicle is fixed by operating the vehicle fixing device of a parking space where a vehicle that has returned as a result of matching with information is parked is operated by the fixing means. .   When leaving a vehicle from the parking lot, the user's biometric information input to the biometric information acquisition means of the parking management terminal is transmitted to each vehicle parked in the parking lot, and then transmitted. The vehicle fixing device is operated by the fixing means in the parking space where the vehicle that has returned the matching result as the collation result with the biological information is parked, and the vehicle is released from being fixed. The parking management device according to claim 1.   In a parking management device comprising at least a parking management terminal for managing entry / exit of a vehicle in a parking lot and a vehicle fixing device for fixing the vehicle for each parking space, the vehicle entering / exiting the parking lot uses the vehicle A biometric information recording means for preliminarily recording the biometric information of the person himself and a communication means for communicating with the parking management terminal, and the parking management terminal inputs the biometric information of the user. Biometric information acquisition means for requesting transmission of the biometric information of the user himself / herself recorded in the biometric information recording means of each vehicle in the parking lot, and biometric information of the user input to the biometric information acquisition means Biological information collating means for collating biometric information transmitted from each vehicle, and fixing or fixing of a parked vehicle by operating the vehicle fixing device provided in the parking space A biometric information of a user input to the biometric information acquisition means as a verification result in the biometric information verification means of the parking management terminal when a vehicle enters the parking lot. And the vehicle fixing device of the parking space where the vehicle that has transmitted the matching biological information is parked is operated by the fixing means to fix the vehicle.   When leaving the vehicle from the parking lot, the vehicle that has transmitted the biometric information that matches the biometric information of the user input to the biometric information acquiring means as the collation result in the biometric information collating means of the parking management terminal The parking management device according to claim 3, wherein the vehicle fixing device in the parking space where the vehicle is parked is operated by the fixing means to release the vehicle from being fixed.   The parking management device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a voiceprint is used as the biological information.   The parking management device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) system is used as a communication system between the parking management terminal and the vehicle in the parking lot.   7. The parking management apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a DSRC in-vehicle device capable of handling an ETC (Electronic Toll Collection System) card is used as the communication means of the vehicle.   A parking management method for managing entry / exit of a vehicle in a parking lot. When a vehicle is entered into the parking lot, the biological information input by a user when entering the vehicle, and each parking in the parking lot Collate with the biometric information of the user of each vehicle recorded in advance in the vehicle, and operate the vehicle fixing device in the parking space where the vehicle where the matching biometric information is recorded as the collation result is parked And a parking management method characterized by fixing the vehicle.   When leaving a vehicle from the parking lot, the biological information input by the user when leaving the vehicle and the biological body of the user of each vehicle recorded in advance in each vehicle parked in the parking lot 9. The vehicle is fixed by operating a vehicle fixing device in a parking space in which a vehicle in which biometric information that matches as a verification result is recorded is collated with information. Parking management method described in 1.   The parking management method according to claim 8 or 9, wherein any one of a fingerprint, an iris, and a voiceprint is used as the biological information.   The parking management method according to any one of claims 8 to 10, wherein a DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) method is used as a communication method with a vehicle.   12. A parking management program, wherein the parking management method according to claim 8 is implemented as a program executable by a computer. 13. A program recording medium, wherein the parking management program according to claim 12 is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium.

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