JP4968444B2 - Parking lot monitor system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring an own vehicle parked in a parking lot.

  In large-scale parking lots such as suburban shopping malls, criminal acts such as vandalism have become a problem in recent years, and when leaving a car for a long time, the owner of the car does not know the state of his vehicle and is very anxious It is.

As a system capable of monitoring a vehicle parked in a parking lot from a remote location, Patent Document 1 discloses a self imaged by a monitoring camera arranged in a parking lot by calling a control terminal with a mobile phone owned by the self. A parking lot monitoring system capable of monitoring a vehicle is disclosed.
JP 2001-266296 A

  However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, since the position information where the vehicle is parked in the parking lot is registered in the control terminal, in a parking lot where the user's parking position is fixed like a monthly parking lot. Although it is suitable, in the case of a parking lot where the position where the vehicle is parked is not fixed, such as a parking lot of a large store, the location information must be registered in the control terminal every time the user parks.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a parking lot monitoring system suitable for a parking lot that is temporarily used by an unspecified number of users and where the user parks the vehicle, such as a parking lot in a large store, and where the position where the user parks the vehicle is not fixed The purpose is to do.

1st invention which solves the subject mentioned above is a parking lot monitor system which monitors vehicles parked in the parking space of a parking lot, Comprising: The hardware token which the user who parks vehicles in a parking lot possesses In this hardware token, when parking the vehicle, a parking number that is information for identifying the parking space in which the vehicle has been stored is written as parking information, and when the vehicle leaves, the hardware token is stored in the hardware token. A parking lot terminal for erasing stored parking information, a monitoring camera for shooting a video of a parking space, a database connected to the monitoring camera via a network, and storing a video transmitted from the monitoring camera and its shooting time When a video shooting time and a parking number are designated, the parking is stored in the database and corresponds to the parking number. Pace in the surveillance camera of the image being imaged, and includes a server having a video distribution section that distributes video from the specified shooting time as moving, the input unit for inputting a shooting time, the user is possessed When the parking number is read from the hardware token and the shooting time is input, the server requests the server to deliver the video of the parking space corresponding to the parking number, and is delivered from the server. And at least a service terminal that displays the recorded video.

  In the present invention, the hardware token means a portable device that can store data inside and has a function of data communication with an external device, and more specifically, an IC card, a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module). And a device such as a USB token.

Furthermore, 2nd invention is a parking lot monitor system as described in 1st invention, The said parking lot terminal writes the parking time which is the time which parked the vehicle in addition to a parking number as parking information, The service terminal prohibits input of a shooting time before the parking time read from the hardware token.

Furthermore, a third invention is the first invention or parking monitoring system according to the second inventions, the parking terminal, until unloading the vehicle, the parking information to the hardware token It is characterized by prohibiting writing.

Furthermore, the fourth invention is the parking lot monitor system according to the third invention, wherein the hardware token stores a user ID which is information for identifying a user, and the parking lot terminal When the vehicle enters, the user ID is read from the hardware token, and the read user ID is held until the vehicle leaves. When the vehicle leaves, the user ID read from the hardware token is held. The user ID is compared, and only when the user ID is the same, the vehicle is allowed to leave.

  According to the above-described invention, the parking information such as the parking number indicating the position where the user parked his / her vehicle in the parking lot is stored in the hardware token owned by the user and is based on the parking information read from the hardware token. Since the video of the surveillance camera is distributed to the service terminal, there is no need for the system to know the parking number, and the parking position where the user parks the vehicle is not fixed, for example, parking in a store or coin parking. A parking lot monitoring system suitable for a parking lot can be provided.

  Furthermore, since the server includes a database that stores the video of the surveillance camera, the user can view not only the live video but also the recorded video.

  Furthermore, after the vehicle leaves, the parking information stored in the hardware token is deleted, the parking time is stored in the hardware token, and the third party parks by preventing the delivery of the video before the parking time. Viewing the video of the space can be prevented.

Furthermore, it is possible to prevent a third person from illegally using the parking information by prohibiting the writing of the parking information to the hardware token until the vehicle is left.
Furthermore, since the parking lot terminal stores and holds the user identification number and permits the use of the user identification number, the effect of preventing illegal use of the parking information can be enhanced.

(Embodiment 1)
From here, the form which applied the parking lot monitor system which concerns on this invention to the parking lot of a store is demonstrated in detail, referring a figure. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a form in which a parking lot monitor system according to the present invention is applied to a parking lot of a store.

  By applying the parking lot monitor system according to the present invention to a parking lot of a store, the user of the parking lot monitor system parked at the parking lot using the store terminal 5 which is a service terminal installed in a large store. It becomes possible to monitor the image of the own vehicle 7.

As shown in FIG. 1, a single payment method payment terminal 2 is installed for each parking space of the parking lot, and the function of the parking lot terminal according to the present invention is provided in the payment terminal 2.
Furthermore, the surveillance camera 3 which always image | photographs a parking space is installed for every parking space of a parking lot.

  A large store is provided with a store terminal 5 that is used when monitoring the video of the vehicle 7 parked in the parking lot and a video database server 6 that stores and holds video captured by the surveillance camera 3. .

  When the user of the parking lot monitoring system possesses the IC card 1 as a hardware token and the user parks the vehicle 7 in the parking space, the IC card 1 has at least a parking space number (hereinafter referred to as parking information) as parking information. , Parking number) and parking time (for example, the time when the IC card 1 is attached to the payment terminal 2) are written.

  The parking information stored in the IC card 1 is read and used by the store terminal 5 when the user monitors his / her own vehicle 7 parked in the parking lot. Erased from card 1.

The store terminal 5 requests the video database server 6 to distribute the video of the monitoring camera 3 corresponding to the parking number of the parking information read from the IC card 1.
When the user does not specify the video shooting time, the live video of the surveillance camera 3 is displayed on the display, and when the user specifies the video shooting time, the recorded video from the specified shooting time is displayed on the display. The

In FIG. 1, the number of the settlement terminal 2, the monitoring camera 3, and the store terminal 5 is one in order to easily understand the present invention.
As a matter of course, the checkout terminal 2 and the monitoring camera 3 may be installed for each parking space, and a plurality of store terminals 5 may be installed in the video database server 6.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the parking lot monitoring system. The IC card 1 possessed by the user of the parking lot monitor system is provided with an EEPROM as an electrically rewritable nonvolatile memory, and further a command for writing information such as a parking number and a parking time into the EEPROM, and an EEPROM. A command for reading out the read information is provided.

  The payment terminal 2 is provided with a reader / writer 21 for data communication with the IC card 1 possessed by the user, in addition to the payment means 20 for adjusting the parking fee.

  The function as the parking lot terminal according to the present invention is provided in the payment means 20 of the payment terminal 2, and in order to realize the function as the parking lot terminal according to the present invention, the payment means 20 at least measures the parking time. For this purpose, a clock is incorporated, a parking number of the parking space where the checkout terminal 2 is installed is stored, and a computer program for carrying out the steps to be described is stored.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a process executed by the checkout terminal 2 and for the user to write into the IC card 1 the parking information that the vehicle 7 has entered the parking space.

The first step S1 executed in this process is a step of activating the IC card 1.
In this step, when the checkout terminal 2 detects that the IC card 1 is electrically coupled to the reader / writer by mechanical means or electrical means, for example, it executes an initialization procedure described in ISO / IEC7816. The IC card 1 is activated.

The next step S2 is a step of writing the parking number and parking time to the IC card 1 as parking information.
In this step, the settlement means 20 of the settlement terminal 2 is set in the settlement terminal 2 by using the command mounted on the IC card 1 and the parking time (for example, the time when the IC card 1 is detected). The parking number is written in the IC card 1 as parking information, and after writing the parking information, the IC card 1 is deactivated.

When the checkout terminal 2 executes the above-described two steps, the parking number and the parking time are written in the IC card 1 possessed by the user as parking information for parking the own vehicle 7.
By reading the parking number stored in the IC card 1, the position where the user parked the vehicle 7 can be specified. Furthermore, by reading the parking time, the parking time when the user parked the vehicle 7 can be specified. .

  The user ID for identifying the user is stored in the IC card 1, and the user ID is read from the IC card 1 in step S2 described above, and the delivery process is performed even if another IC card 1 with a different user ID is mounted. If not, the checkout terminal 2 does not execute this step S2 until the user's vehicle 7 enters the parking space until it leaves, and parks even if another IC card 1 is mounted. Information can be prevented from being written to the IC card 1.

  In addition, the parking information memorize | stored in IC card 1 is erase | eliminated when a user performs the leaving process of the vehicle 7. FIG. In order to prevent forgetting to delete the parking information, it is preferable to add the IC card 1 to this condition as one of the conditions for the checkout terminal 2 to allow the vehicle 7 to leave.

  Furthermore, if the IC card 1 has an application for adjusting the parking fee, and the payment terminal 2 has a function for adjusting the parking fee using the IC card 1, the parking fee is erased together with the deletion of the parking information. Is convenient because it can be settled.

Returning to the description of FIG. In order to take a picture of a parking space where the checkout terminal 2 is installed, a monitoring camera 3 is installed for each parking space.
In the present invention, the monitoring camera 3 is a network camera (IP camera), and can transmit the captured video to the video database server 6 via the LAN 4.
Naturally, the function as a network camera can also be realized by combining a CCD camera and a broadband router.

The surveillance camera 3 stores a parking number of the parking space that is being imaged by the surveillance camera 3, and further has a built-in clock for measuring the time when the image is captured.
The surveillance camera 3 shoots a parking space to be photographed at a constant time interval (for example, 1/10 second), and captures the image capture time, the captured image and the parking number via the LAN 4 every time the image is captured. Is transmitted to the video database server 6.

  A plurality of parking spaces may be sequentially photographed by one monitoring camera 3 by the monitoring camera 3 having a mechanism such as rotation and zoom.

  The video database server 6 to which video is transmitted from the monitoring camera 3 includes a video database 61 that records the video transmitted from the monitoring camera 3 in a moving image format, and a video distribution unit that distributes the video of the monitoring camera 3 to the service terminal 5. As shown, a database management means 60 for managing the video database 61 is provided.

  The database management unit 60 is a unit that serves as a window for accessing the video database 61 from an external device (here, the monitoring camera 3 and the store terminal 5), and accesses the video database 61 to the monitoring camera 3 and the store terminal 5. API (Application Program Interface) for doing this.

  The surveillance camera 3 can register the captured video in the video database 61 by calling an API for registering the video in the video database 61, and the store terminal 5 can request distribution of the video stored in the video database 61. By calling the API, it is possible to receive video that meets the specified conditions as a moving image.

  When the API is called from the monitoring camera 3 and the video and the shooting time are received from the monitoring camera 3, the database management means 60 associates the video with the received parking number and stores the video in the video database 61 in a moving image format (for example, MPEG). Stored as metadata of the video that stores the shooting time.

  Furthermore, when the API is called from the store terminal 5 and receives a video distribution request, the database management means 60 searches the video database 61 for a video that meets the conditions specified by the store terminal 5, and searches for the searched video. Is streamed to the store terminal 5 as a video.

  The condition for the store terminal 5 to specify the image requires the parking number of the parking space, and this condition can optionally include the image capture time.

  When the shooting time is not designated from the store terminal 5, the database management means 60 streams the video transmitted from the monitoring camera 3 specified by the parking number as a moving image, and this video is shot by the monitoring camera 3. The live image will be displayed.

  Furthermore, when the shooting time is designated from the store terminal 5, the video metadata of the designated parking number is retrieved, stored in the video database 61, and the video from the designated shooting time is streamed as a moving image. The video at this time is a video recorded by the surveillance camera 3.

  The store terminal 5 displays a reader / writer 51 for data communication with the IC card 1 possessed by the user, an operation means 52 for the user to input a photographing time, and a video distributed from the video database server 6. The display means 53 and the control means 50 which controls the shop terminal 5 are provided.

  The display means 53 of the store terminal 5 is a means for displaying a video generated from the video database server 6, and a liquid crystal display excellent in power consumption is suitable. Furthermore, the operation means 52 is a means used for inputting the photographing time, and is a means for inputting data to the store terminal 5 as represented by a keyboard or a touch panel.

  The control means 50 of the store terminal 5 is a means for controlling the operation of the store terminal 5, and the control means 50 is realized by a computer board on which a CPU, a memory, and the like are mounted. A computer program for causing the terminal 5 to execute is incorporated.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a process of displaying video on the store terminal 5.
The first step S10 of this process is a step of activating the IC card 1. In this step, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 is electrically connected to the reader / writer by mechanical means or electrical means. When the connection is detected, for example, the initialization procedure described in ISO / IEC7816 is executed, and the IC card 1 is activated.

The next step S11 is a step of reading parking information from the IC card 1.
In this step, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 reads the parking information (here, the parking time and the parking number) from the IC card 1 using the command mounted on the IC card 1, and reads the read parking information. Hold temporarily in memory.

  The next step S12 is a step of requesting the video database server 6 to deliver a live video.

In this step, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 accesses the database management means 60 of the video database server 6, calls an API for distributing video, and requests video distribution.
At this time, the condition for designating the video for which distribution is requested is only the parking number read from the IC card 1 and does not include the video shooting time.

The next step S13 is a step of displaying the video distributed from the video database server 6.
In this step, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 displays the video streamed as a moving image from the video database server 6 on the display means 53 of the store terminal 5.

  The video displayed in this step S13 immediately after step S12 is executed becomes the live video of the surveillance camera 3, and the video displayed in this step S13 immediately after the execution of S16 described later is recorded video of the surveillance camera. become.

  FIG. 5 is an example of a live video displayed on the display means 53 of the store terminal 5. As shown in FIG. 5, the display means 53 of the store terminal 5 displays the live video taken by the surveillance camera 3 specified by the parking number and the time when the video was taken.

  Furthermore, in FIG. 5, as the input means 52, a shooting time column 52a for displaying a shooting time that the user wants to browse, a time operation key 52b used for specifying the shooting time, and a shooting time are determined. An enter key 52c and an end key 53d for ending the video viewing are displayed. The place where these keys are displayed is a touch panel, and the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 can determine which key is operated.

Note that when the video is displayed in step S13, if the user operates the input means 52 (for example, one of the keys in FIG. 5), the process branches (step S14).
In step S14, when the user performs an operation for ending the video display (when the end key 52d in FIG. 5 is pressed), the procedure ends, and an operation for designating the imaging time (time operation key 52b in FIG. 5). Is executed), the process proceeds to step S15.

  Step S15, which is executed when the shooting time is specified by the user, is a step of acquiring the shooting time specified by the user.

  For example, in FIG. 5, the first time displayed in the shooting time field 52a is the time when the video is displayed, and the time displayed in the shooting time field 52a is when a downward triangle is operated. Returning, when the upward triangle is operated, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 acquires the shooting time displayed in the shooting time column when the enter key 52c is operated.

  In addition, when returning imaging | photography time, it is good for the control means 50 of the shop terminal 5 to prohibit the setting to the time before the parking time read from IC card 1 by step S11.

Step S16 executed after step S15 is a step of requesting the video database server 6 to distribute the recorded video.
In this step, the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 accesses the database management means 60 of the video database server 6, calls an API for distributing video, and requests video distribution.
Note that the conditions for designating the video requesting distribution at this time include the parking number read from the IC card 1 and the photographing time designated in step S15.

  After step S16 is executed, step S13 is executed, and the recorded video distributed from the video database server 6 is displayed on the display of the store terminal 5.

(Embodiment 2)
From here, the form which applied the parking lot monitor system concerning the present invention to coin parking is explained.
FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a form in which the parking lot monitor system according to the present invention is applied to coin parking.

  When applying the present invention to a parking lot for coin parking, a hardware token possessed by a user is a SIM 101 (Subscriber Identity Module) having a communication interface, and a mobile phone 105 to which the SIM 101 can be attached is a service terminal. The user can monitor his / her own vehicle 107 parked in the coin parking using the mobile phone 105.

  6, the SIM 101 in FIG. 6 serves as the IC card 1 in FIG. 1, the mobile phone 105 in FIG. 6 serves as the store terminal 5 in FIG. 1, and the Web server 106 in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, the settlement terminal 102 and the monitoring camera 103 are installed for each parking space of the coin parking in the same manner as in FIG. 1.

The SIM 101 is mounted with a dual interface IC chip, and the SIM 101 includes a contact terminal for communication by contact and an antenna for non-contact communication.
When the SIM 101 and the checkout terminal 102 communicate with each other, contactless communication is used. When the SIM 101 and the mobile phone 105 communicate with each other, contact communication is used.

  The mobile phone 105 includes a display as the display means 53 provided in the store terminal 5 of FIG. 1, an operation button as the input means 52 of the store terminal 5 in FIG. 1, and a SIM 101 as the reader / writer 51 of the store terminal 5 in FIG. An application for realizing the means for communicating by contact and the control means 50 of the store terminal 5 is installed.

  Further, the Web server 106 includes a database for storing the video of the monitoring camera 103 and means for distributing the video (for example, DBMS: Data Base Management System), similarly to the video database 6 of FIG.

  In FIG. 6, the means that is provided in the checkout terminal 102 and communicates with the SIM 101 that is a hardware token is a non-contact type reader / writer, and the checkout terminal 102 writes the parking information in the SIM 105 as in the first embodiment.

  When monitoring the vehicle 107 parked in the coin parking, the mobile phone 105 reads the parking information from the SIM 101, and distributes the video of the monitoring camera 103 specified by the parking information via the network 104 including the mobile phone wireless network. The server 106 is requested to display the video distributed from the Web server 106 on the display of the mobile phone 105.

The figure explaining the form which applied the parking lot monitor system to the parking lot of a store. The block diagram of a parking lot monitor system. The figure explaining the process of writing parking information in an IC card. The figure explaining the process of displaying an image | video on a shop terminal. An example of the live image | video displayed on the display means of a shop terminal. The figure explaining the form which applied the parking lot monitor system to coin parking.

Explanation of symbols

1 IC card 2 payment terminal, 20 payment means, 21 reader / writer 3 surveillance camera 4 LAN
5 service terminal, 50 control means, 51 reader / writer, 52 input means,
53 Display means 6 Video database server, 60 Database management means, 61 Video database 7 Vehicle 101 SIM, 102 Payment terminal, 103 Surveillance camera, 104 Network,
105 mobile phone, 106 Web server, 107 vehicle

Claims (4)

A parking lot monitoring system for monitoring a vehicle parked in a parking space of a parking lot, the hardware token possessed by a user who parks the vehicle in the parking lot, and the hardware token as parking information, A parking lot terminal that writes a parking number, which is information for identifying a parking space in which the vehicle has entered when the vehicle enters, and erases the parking information stored in the hardware token when the vehicle leaves, and A surveillance camera that captures images of parking spaces, a database connected to the surveillance camera via a network, and stores the images transmitted from the surveillance cameras and their capture times. The image capture time and parking number are specified. when, stored in the database, the monitoring camera that captures a corresponding parking spaces in the parking number Reading in the image, the server having a video distribution section that distributes video from the specified shooting time as video, an input unit for inputting the photographing time, the parking number from the hardware token possessed by the user When the shooting time is input, the server is requested to distribute the video from the shooting time of the monitoring camera that is imaging the parking space corresponding to the parking number, and the video distributed from the server is displayed. A parking lot monitor system comprising at least a service terminal. A parking monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the parking terminal, as the parking information, in addition to the parking number, write the parking time is a time at which the vehicle is parked, the service terminal, the hardware A parking lot monitor system that prohibits input of a shooting time before a parking time read from a token. The parking lot monitoring system according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the parking lot terminal prohibits writing of parking information to the hardware token until the vehicle is left. Monitor system. A parking monitoring system according to claim 3, in the hardware token, the stored user ID is information for identifying a user, the parking terminal, when the vehicle receipts, the Read the user ID from the hardware token, hold the read user ID until the vehicle leaves, and when leaving the vehicle, compare the user ID read from the hardware token with the held user ID, A parking lot monitor system that permits the vehicle to be delivered only when the user ID is the same.

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