KR102200122B1 - Method, server, system and computer program for providing information on parking position to vehicle user based on pillar number of parking lot - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method performed in an integrated management server to provide vehicle parking location information to a vehicle user. The exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving an image including an identification symbol photographed at a terminal of a vehicle user and displayed on a parking pillar around a parking location of the vehicle; extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image; and transmitting the extracted text of the identification symbol to the terminal of the vehicle user.

Description

METHOD, SERVER, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON PARKING POSITION TO VEHICLE USER BASED ON PILLAR NUMBER OF PARKING LOT}

The present disclosure relates to providing information on a corresponding parking position to a vehicle user by using an identification symbol displayed on a parking post or the like around a parking position where a vehicle in a parking lot is parked.

Unless otherwise stated herein, the content described in this section is not prior art to the claims in this application, and should not be admitted to be prior art for reasons described in this section.

When a vehicle is parked in a large parking lot attached to a large mart or a complex shopping mall, vehicle users are often lost without finding the parking location of their vehicle. In recent large parking lots, a camera is installed at each parking location, and a system that extracts the number of a parked vehicle through vehicle license plate recognition technology from the vehicle license plate image captured by the camera and provides the parking location of the vehicle to vehicle users. In a parking lot employing such a system, a kiosk for vehicle number inquiry is installed so that vehicle users can search for a parking location by inputting their vehicle number at this kiosk.

However, in such a system, misrecognition or non-recognition of the vehicle number often occurs, and a vehicle user who believes in such a system and does not remember his/her parking location may be confused to find the parking location. In addition, in a parking lot where such a system and kiosk are not installed, it may still be inconvenient for vehicle users to find a parking location.

In order to solve this problem, for example, according to Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0054051 (prior patent document), using a front camera of an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) installed in a vehicle When the vehicle is parked, an image is acquired by photographing a parking lot pillar, and then a number displayed on the pillar is extracted from the acquired image. The extracted number is transmitted to the AVN (Audio/Video/Navigation) system, and the AVN system provides the vehicle driver with a parking location by transmitting this number or image to the vehicle driver's smartphone.

However, in order to apply the technology of these prior patent documents, the vehicle must be equipped with an ADAS system and an AVN system indispensably, and an individual vehicle must be equipped with various hardware and software additional configurations for communication between the AVN system and a smartphone. do.

KR 10-2017-0054051 A

The present disclosure is intended to solve the above problems, and without the need to install separate equipment or components on the vehicle, the vehicle parking location can be provided to the vehicle user using a central integrated management server through the vehicle user's smartphone. Present methods, servers, systems and computer programs.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method performed in an integrated management server to provide vehicle parking location information to a vehicle user is described. An exemplary method includes receiving an image including an identification symbol photographed at a vehicle user's terminal and displayed on a parking pillar around a parking position of the vehicle, extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image, and extracting It may include the step of transmitting the text of the identified identification symbol to the terminal of the vehicle user. In addition, the exemplary method above includes receiving a signal regarding at least one of entering and parking a parking lot of the vehicle before the step of receiving the image, and photographing the identification symbol displayed on the parking pole by the terminal of the vehicle user. It may further include transmitting at least one command related to. In addition, the exemplary method above includes, after the step of extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image, the step of fetching the map information of the parking lot from the database storing the map information of the parking lot where the vehicle enters, and The method may further include matching the text of the extracted identification symbol to the map information.

In some embodiments, an integrated management server for providing vehicle parking location information to a vehicle user is described. An exemplary integrated management server may include a communication module, a processing module, and a database. The communication module is capable of communicating with the terminal of the vehicle user and may be configured to receive an image transmitted from the terminal of the vehicle user, and the processing module processes the image received from the terminal of the vehicle user through the communication module to provide information on the parking position of the vehicle. And the database may be configured to store information of a vehicle user. The image transmitted from the terminal of the vehicle user may include an identification symbol displayed on a parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle, and the processing module may be further configured to extract the identification symbol as text from this image. The communication module may be further configured to transmit the text of the identification symbol extracted from the processing module to the terminal of the vehicle user.

In some embodiments, a system for providing vehicle parking position information to a vehicle user is described. The system may include a local server of a parking lot in which the vehicle is parked, an integrated management server communicatively connected to the local server, and a terminal of the vehicle user. The local server may be configured to identify at least one of whether the vehicle is occupied or not, and to generate a signal regarding at least one of whether the vehicle is occupied or not, and transmit the signal to the integrated management server. The integrated management server receives a signal from the local server, identifies the vehicle user and the terminal of the vehicle user based on this signal, and in response to this signal, photographs the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle It may be configured to generate at least one command related to, and transmit the generated at least one command to the terminal of the identified vehicle user. The vehicle user's terminal may be configured to receive at least one command from the integrated management server and provide a notification message regarding photographing of the identification symbol to the vehicle user. In addition, the integrated management server is a communication module configured to receive an image including an identification symbol photographed at the vehicle user's terminal and displayed on a parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle, and a processing configured to extract the identification symbol as text from the received image. May contain modules. Furthermore, the integrated management server may be further configured to transmit the text of the identification symbol extracted from the processing module to the terminal of the vehicle user, and the terminal of the vehicle user receives the text of the identification symbol and sends it to the vehicle user as parking position information of the vehicle. It can be further configured to provide.

In some embodiments, a computer program stored in a recording medium of an integrated management server for providing parking position information of a vehicle to a vehicle user and executed by the integrated management server is described. This computer program includes at least one command related to receiving a signal relating to at least one of the vehicle's parking lot entry and parking from at least one of the vehicle user's terminal and the local server of the parking lot in which the vehicle is parked, and At least one command related to transmitting at least one command related to photographing of the identification symbol displayed on the parking pole to the terminal of the vehicle user, and at least one related to receiving an image including the identification symbol photographed at the terminal of the vehicle user A command of, at least one command related to extracting the identification sign as text from the received image, and at least one command related to transmitting the extracted text of the identification sign to the terminal of the vehicle user. Further, in a further embodiment, the computer program includes at least one instruction related to fetching map information of the parking lot from a database storing map information of the parking lot, and matching the text of the identification symbol extracted to the map information of the parking lot. It may further include at least one related command and at least one command related to transmitting at least one of the map information of the parking lot and the result of matching to the terminal of the vehicle user.

The above brief summary and description of the effects are merely exemplary and are not intended to limit the technical matters intended in the present disclosure. By referring to the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings, in addition to the above-described exemplary embodiments and technical features, additional embodiments and technical features may be understood.

Features of the present disclosure described above and other additional features will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. These drawings illustrate only a few embodiments according to the present disclosure, and should not be regarded as limiting the scope of the technical idea of the present disclosure. The technical idea of the present disclosure will be described in more detail and detail using the accompanying drawings.
1 is an environmental diagram illustrating a system for providing exemplary parking location information, in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.
2 is an exemplary flowchart illustrating some processes performed in an integrated management server according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.
3 is an exemplary flowchart illustrating an additional process performed in the integrated management server according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.
4 is an exemplary flowchart illustrating an additional process performed in the integrated management server according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.
5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating an integrated management server for providing a parking location, according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.
6 is an exemplary flowchart schematically illustrating a process between a local server of a parking lot, an integrated management server, and a vehicle user terminal in an exemplary parking location providing system.
7 illustrates an example program product that may be used to provide a parking location, in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure.

Hereinafter, embodiments and embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those of ordinary skill in the art may easily implement the present disclosure. However, the present application may be implemented in various different forms, and is not limited to the embodiments and examples described herein.

The present disclosure generally relates to a method, a server, a system, and a computer program for providing a parking location to a vehicle user, and is processed in an integrated management server based on an identification symbol such as a parking zone number displayed for each of a plurality of pillars installed in a parking lot. Provides a plan for guiding the vehicle user to the exact parking location of the vehicle.

1 is an environmental diagram illustrating a system 100 for providing exemplary parking location information, in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. The exemplary system 100 includes a central integrated management server 110, a local server 130 of the parking lot 102, a blocker 140 installed at the entrance of the parking lot 102, and a user of the vehicle 150 parked in the parking lot. It may include a terminal 152 of. Parking zones such as 160 are separated in the parking lot 102, and an identification symbol (eg, "A01" marked on a column of reference numeral 162) is displayed in an appropriate position, such as a pillar of reference numeral 162, near each parking zone. do. In addition, a camera 142 is mounted on the blocker 140 installed at the entrance of the parking lot 102, the camera 142 photographs the license plate of the vehicle entering the parking lot 102, and the local server 130 photographs From the image of the license plate, it is possible to recognize the vehicle number using a general LPR (License Plate Recognition) technique. The local server 130 may process the vehicle 150 in the parking lot 102 based on the vehicle number.

The local server 130 may be communicatively connected with the integrated management server 110 through the network 120. Such networks 120 may include computer networks, Internet, telephone networks, TCP/IP data networks (including WAN, LAN, VPN, etc.), and other communication media. The local server 130 may transmit a signal regarding whether the vehicle 150 has entered the vehicle and the vehicle number recognized to enter the vehicle 150 to the integrated management server 110 through the network 120. The integrated management server 110 receives this vehicle number to determine whether the vehicle is registered on the server, and if the vehicle is registered on the server, extracts the mobile phone number of the user associated with the vehicle and A guide message or a mobile parking ticket may be transmitted to a terminal 152 such as a smartphone.

In some exemplary embodiments, when the vehicle 150 entering the parking lot 102 parks in the parking area 160, the license plate of the vehicle 150 may be photographed through a camera (not shown) installed near the parking area. have. In this case, the captured image is transmitted to the local server 130 through the internal network, and the local server 130 can identify that the vehicle 150 is parked in the parking area 160. In this case, the local server 130 may transmit a signal indicating that the vehicle 150 has parked to the integrated management server 110 through the network 120.

The integrated management server receives a signal for entering the parking lot 102 of the vehicle 150 and/or a signal for parking from the local server 130, and then, as described above, based on the vehicle number of the vehicle 150. By extracting the mobile phone number of the user associated with this vehicle, at least regarding the photographing of the identification symbol A01 displayed on the parking pillar 162 near the parking zone 160 with a terminal 152 such as a smartphone of the user. One command can be sent. Such at least one command may include a push notification inducing the vehicle user to photograph the identification symbol A01 of the parking post 162. In some exemplary embodiments, together with or instead of such a push notification, the integrated management server 110 may transmit a command to activate the camera module mounted on the user terminal 152, and receive such a command. The user terminal 152 may induce the user's photographing behavior by automatically activating the terminal camera.

On the other hand, in some other exemplary embodiments, instead of the local server 130, the user terminal 152 transmits a signal related to entering the parking lot 102 of the vehicle 150 and/or a signal related to parking to the integrated management server 110 ). In this case, the user terminal 152 may be provided by the integrated management server 110 or a predetermined application for communication with the integrated management server 110 may be installed, and whether the user terminal 152 enters the parking lot 102 And/or it is possible to generate a signal by identifying whether or not parking. For this identification, a sensor capable of grasping the movement or movement of the terminal, such as a GPS, an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, or a motion sensor mounted on the user terminal 152 may be used. For example, when the vehicle 150 enters the parking lot 102, the user terminal 152 located therein can identify whether the vehicle has entered the parking lot based on the GPS signal, and the vehicle 150 is in the parking area 160. When it comes to a complete stop, it can be identified if it is parked.

The vehicle user can take an identification symbol A01 displayed on the parking pillar 162 around the parking area 160 through the camera of the user terminal 152 according to a command such as a push notification regarding shooting from the integrated management server 110. The photographed image may be transmitted to the integrated management server 110. The integrated management server 110 may receive this image and recognize and extract the text of the identification symbol, that is, A01 from it. For such recognition and extraction, general text identification techniques may be used. The identification code text A01 extracted from the integrated management server 110 may be provided to the user terminal 152 and used to check the parking location. The provision may be provided by the integrated management server 110 or through an application installed in the user terminal 152 for communication with the integrated management server 110.

In some exemplary embodiments, the integrated management server 110 may match the parking position of the vehicle 150 with map information of the parking lot 102 based on the extracted identification symbol text A01. In this case, the integrated management server 110 retrieves the map data of the parking lot 102 from an internal database or an external database, identifies the location of the A01 pillar from the map data, and indicates that the vehicle 150 is parked in the vicinity. You can decide. The matched parking location as described above may be transmitted to the user terminal 152 together with the corresponding map information. The user terminal 152 may guide the parking location to the user by receiving the map information and the parking location and displaying it on the screen. In some embodiments, the integrated management server 110 may transmit only the matched parking location to the user terminal 152. The user terminal 152 receives the matched parking location, retrieves the map information of the parking lot 102 from the internal memory or an external database, and then displays the parking location on the screen together with the map information to display the parking location to the user. Can provide.

2 is an exemplary flowchart illustrating some processes performed in an integrated management server (eg, an integrated management server 110 of FIG. 1) according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. This process 200 may include one or more actions, functions, or actions as illustrated in FIG. 2. On the other hand, the schematic operations shown in FIG. 2 are provided only as examples, and some of the operations may be selective, combined with a smaller number of operations, or extended to additional operations without departing from the essence of the disclosed embodiment. . For example, the processes described in FIGS. 3 and/or 4 below may be further performed in an appropriate order within the process 200 of FIG. 2 without departing from the essence of the present disclosure.

The process 200 begins in step S201. In step S201, the integrated management server may receive an image captured by a vehicle user terminal (eg, terminal 152 in FIG. 1). This image may be an image taken of an identification symbol (eg, A01 in FIG. 1) displayed on a pillar around a parking area in which the vehicle is parked in the parking lot.

Next, in step S202, the integrated management server may recognize the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar from the received image and extract it as text. For such recognition and extraction, general text identification techniques may be used.

Finally, in step S203, the integrated management server may transmit the extracted identification symbol to the terminal of the vehicle user. The identification symbol transmitted to the user terminal may be displayed on a screen in the user terminal or audio output through a speaker to provide the user with information on the parking position of the vehicle.

3 is an exemplary flow diagram illustrating an additional process 300 performed in an integrated management server in addition to the process of FIG. 2 in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. This process 300 may preferably be performed before step S201 of FIG. 2, but is not limited thereto.

Process 300 begins in step S301. In step S301, the integrated management server may receive a signal regarding the vehicle entering the parking lot and/or parking in the parking lot. This signal may be transmitted from the local server 130 of FIG. 1 or from the user terminal 152. The local server 130 or the user terminal 152 may identify whether the vehicle is occupied or parked and generate a corresponding signal may be performed in the manner described above with reference to FIG. 1.

Then, in step S302, the integrated management server may transmit at least one command regarding photographing of the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar around the parked vehicle to the user terminal of the vehicle in response to the reception of the signal. Such a command may be a push notification to induce a user's photographing and/or a command to activate a camera on the user terminal. Through such a command, the vehicle user photographs the identification symbol of the pillar around the parking position, and the photographed image is transmitted to the integrated management server later to be used for identification and provision of the parking position.

4 is an exemplary flow diagram illustrating an additional process 400 performed in the integrated management server in addition to the process of FIG. 2 in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. This process 400 may be preferably performed after step S202 of FIG. 2, but is not limited thereto.

The process 400 begins in step S401. In step S401, the integrated management server may fetch information or data about a map of the parking lot from its internal database or an external database. In an exemplary embodiment, after extracting the parking pillar identification symbol of the parking lot as text in step S202 of FIG. 2, the integrated management server may fetch map information of the corresponding parking lot from the aforementioned database.

Next, in step S402, the integrated management server may match the extracted parking pillar identification symbol with map information fetched from the database. The imported map information may include information on a parking pole identification symbol for each parking zone along with image data on a map of the corresponding parking lot. The integrated management server can identify the location where the vehicle is parked on the map information with the identification symbol text.

Finally, in step S403, the integrated management server may transmit the map information and/or the matching result to the terminal of the vehicle user. In some embodiments, the integrated management server may transmit map information reflecting the matching result, and in this case, the vehicle user's terminal may inform the vehicle user of the parking location by receiving the map information and displaying it on the screen. In another embodiment, the integrated management server transmits only the matching result value to the vehicle user's terminal. In this case, the vehicle user's terminal transmits information about the map of the corresponding parking lot to its internal memory or externally (for example, reference numeral 130 in FIG. 1 ). Local server), reflecting the matching result value on the received map information, and displaying it on the screen, it is possible to inform the vehicle user of the parking location.

5 is an exemplary block diagram illustrating an integrated management server 500 for providing a parking location, according to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. The integrated management server 500 may perform the same or similar function as the integrated management server 110 of FIG. 1. In addition, the integrated management server 500 may be any type of computing device having an application server, a standalone server, a web server, and other data transmission/reception functions, data identification functions, and data processing functions.

In the embodiment of FIG. 5, the integrated management server 500 may include a communication module 501, a processing module 502, and a database 503. These three modules are essential components of the integrated management server 500, and the integrated management server 500 may include other components of the server related to general data processing in addition to these configurations.

The communication module 501 may be configured to be communicatively connected with other external computing devices to transmit and receive data and/or signals. For example, the communication module 501 may be connected to the local parking lot server 130 of FIG. 1 through a network 120 to exchange data. In addition, the communication module 501 may be connected to the vehicle user's terminal 152 of FIG. 1 through a cellular network to exchange data. In some examples, the communication module 501 receives an image including an identification symbol A01 photographed at the vehicle user's terminal 152 of FIG. 1 and displayed on the parking post 162 around the parking position of the vehicle 150 And the received image may be passed to the processing module 502 for subsequent processing.

The processing module 502 is a module having basic data processing and computation capabilities, and may receive an image received by the communication module 501 and extract the text of the identification symbol A01 therefrom. General image processing techniques can be used to extract this text.

The database 503 may store information of users who have subscribed to an application related to a service provided by the integrated management server 500. The user information includes general user information, and in particular, the phone number of a terminal such as a smartphone of the user. In some exemplary embodiments, the database 503 may additionally store data related to map information of parking lots associated with the integrated management server. The map information of the parking lot may include image data indicating the layout of the corresponding parking lot and a parking zone identification symbol displayed on a parking pole for each parking zone.

In some additional embodiments, the communication module 501 may receive signals relating to the entry and/or parking of the vehicle 150, eg, from the local server 130 and/or the user terminal 152 of FIG. 1. This signal may also include vehicle identification information such as the vehicle number of the vehicle 150. Upon receipt of this signal, the processing module 502 may fetch the vehicle user's information from the database 503, particularly the phone number of the vehicle user's terminal 152, based on the vehicle identification information included in the signal. Thereafter, the processing module 502 may generate at least one command regarding photographing of the identification symbol near the parking position of the vehicle 150, and the communication module 501 can obtain the phone number of the vehicle user terminal 152. Through this, the above command may be transmitted to the terminal 152 of the vehicle user. The vehicle user's terminal 152, which has received such a command, displays the command (for example, a push notification related to photographing an identification symbol) on the screen, thereby allowing the vehicle user to take a picture of the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar around the parking position. You can induce. The photographic image of the identification symbol taken in this way may be transmitted to the integrated management server 500.

In some additional embodiments, the processing module 502 extracts the text of the identification symbol from the image received from the terminal of the vehicle user, and then from the database 503 or an external database (not shown) of the parking lot 102 in which the vehicle is parked. Map information can be loaded. The processing module 502 may identify and match the parking position of the corresponding vehicle with the identification symbol extracted after fetching the parking lot map information. The matched result value can be transmitted to the vehicle user's terminal 152 through the communication module 501 along with the parking lot map information, which is displayed on the screen of the user terminal 152 to provide the vehicle user with a parking location. Can be.

6 is an exemplary flowchart 600 schematically illustrating a process between a local server 610 of a parking lot, an integrated management server 620, and a vehicle user terminal 630 in an exemplary parking location providing system. The local server 610 of the parking lot may perform the same or similar function as the local server 130 of FIG. 1, and the integrated management server 620 is the integrated management server 110 of FIG. 1 or the integrated management server of FIG. 5. The same or similar functions as 500 may be performed, and the vehicle user terminal 630 may perform the same or similar functions as the vehicle user terminal 152 of FIG. 1. Accordingly, the description disclosed in FIGS. 1 to 5 may be applied in the same or similar manner to FIG. 6, and the descriptions related to FIGS. 1 to 5 may also be applied to the system flowchart of FIG. 6, even if not described again below.

As shown in FIG. 6, the local server 610 may identify whether the vehicle enters the corresponding parking lot and/or park (S611) and transmit a signal related thereto to the integrated management server 620 (S612). In parallel or alternatively, the vehicle user terminal 630 may identify whether the vehicle enters the corresponding parking lot and/or park (S631) and transmit a signal related thereto to the integrated management server 620 (S632). have.

The integrated management server 620 receives signals related to entering and/or parking from the local server 610 and/or the vehicle user terminal 630 (S621), and then parks the vehicle user terminal 630 around the parking location. At least one command (S622) for photographing the identification symbol displayed on the pillar may be transmitted. Such a command may include, but is not limited to, a push notification for inducing a photographing of the vehicle user and/or a command for automatically activating the camera mounted on the vehicle user terminal 630. In addition, after receiving the signal in step S621, the integrated management server may identify the phone number of the user terminal 630 of the vehicle based on the vehicle identification information included in the signal, and use this to transmit the command in step S622. .

Next, the vehicle user terminal 630 receives a command from the integrated management server 620 (S633) and provides the vehicle user with a visual and/or audible notification that induces the vehicle user's shooting according to the command, Vehicle users can be guided to take pictures of identification marks displayed on parking posts around their parking positions. When the vehicle user photographs the identification symbol (S634), the photographed image may be transmitted to the integrated management server 620 (S635).

The integrated management server 620 receives an image in which the parking pillar identification symbol is photographed from the vehicle user terminal 630 (S623), and extracts the identification symbol as text from the image (S624). Then, the integrated management server 620 retrieves map information of the parking lot in which the vehicle is parked from an internal or external database and maps the extracted identification code text to the map information (S625). The mapped result value and/or map information of the parking lot may be transmitted to the vehicle user terminal 630.

The vehicle user terminal 630 receives the mapped result value and/or map information of the parking lot from the integrated management server 620 (S636), and parks the vehicle user in various possible ways through a screen or speaker mounted on the terminal. Be able to provide information.

7 shows an exemplary program product 700 that may be used to provide a parking location, in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present disclosure. An exemplary embodiment of an exemplary computer program product is provided using a signal bearing medium 702. In some embodiments, the signal bearing medium 702 of one or more computer program products 700 may include a computer readable medium 706, a recordable medium 708, and/or a communication medium 710.

The instructions 704 included in the signal-bearing medium 702 may be executed by, for example, a computing device such as the integrated management server 110 illustrated in FIG. 1 or the integrated management server 500 illustrated in FIG. 5. When executed, the instructions 704 may cause the computing device to perform a process for providing vehicle parking location information to a vehicle user. The command 704 includes at least one command related to receiving a signal related to at least one of the vehicle's parking lot entry and parking from at least one of the terminal of the vehicle user and the local server of the parking lot where the vehicle is parked, and around the parking location of the vehicle. At least one command related to transmitting at least one command related to photographing of the identification symbol displayed on the parking post of the vehicle user to the terminal of the vehicle user, and at least one related to receiving an image photographed at the terminal of the vehicle user and including the identification symbol It may include one command, at least one command related to extracting the identification sign as text from the received image, and at least one command related to transmitting the extracted text of the identification sign to the terminal of the vehicle user. .

The foregoing description of the present application is for illustrative purposes only, and those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present application pertains will be able to understand that it is possible to easily transform it into other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present application. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are illustrative in all respects and not limiting. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

As described above, the subject to be claimed in the present disclosure was examined in detail. The subject matter claimed in this disclosure is not limited in scope to the specific implementations described above. For example, in some implementations, it may be in the form of hardware that is operably used on a device or a combination of devices, in other implementations it may be implemented in the form of software and/or firmware, and in another implementation, a signal bearing medium, It may include one or more articles such as storage media. Here, the storage medium, such as a CD-ROM, a computer disk, or a flash memory, is an instruction capable of causing execution of a corresponding processor according to the above-described implementation when executed by a computing device such as a computing system, a computing platform, or other system. Can be saved. Such computing devices may include one or more processing units or processors, one or more input/output devices such as displays, keyboards and/or mice, and static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), flash memory and/or hard drive. It may contain one or more memories, such as drives.

On the other hand, whether to implement the system as hardware or software is a design selection issue that generally represents a cost-effective tradeoff. In this disclosure, there are various means (e.g., hardware, software and/or firmware) that can be influenced by processes, systems, and other technologies, and the preferred means is that processes and/or systems and/or other technologies are used. It will change according to the context of being. For example, if the implementer decides that speed and accuracy are paramount, the implementer can primarily choose hardware and/or firmware means; if flexibility is paramount, the implementer can choose primarily software implementation; Or, as an alternative, the implementer may choose some combination of hardware, software and/or firmware.

In the foregoing detailed description, various embodiments of an apparatus and/or process have been described through block diagrams, flow charts, and/or other examples. Such block diagrams, flow charts, and/or other examples will include one or more functions and/or operations, and those skilled in the art will understand that each function and/or operation in the block diagrams, flow charts, and/or other examples is hardware, software, firmware, Or it will be appreciated that they may be implemented individually or collectively by any combination thereof. In one embodiment, some parts of the object described in the present disclosure may be implemented through an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), or other form of integration. In contrast, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure may include one or more computer programs running on one or more computers (e.g., one or more programs running on one or more computer systems), one or more programs running on one or more processors ( For example, one or more programs running on one or more microprocessors), firmware, or substantially any combination thereof, may be implemented in an integrated circuit in whole or in part evenly, and writing code for software and/or firmware And/or the design of the circuit is within the skill of a person skilled in the art in light of the present disclosure. In addition, those skilled in the art will understand that mechanisms of the object of the present disclosure can be distributed to various types of program products, and examples of the object of the present disclosure are applied irrespective of the specific type of signal bearing medium used to actually perform the distribution. Will understand.

While certain exemplary techniques have been described and illustrated herein using a variety of methods and systems, those skilled in the art can understand the possibility of substitution with various other modifications or equivalents without departing from the claimed subject matter. Additionally, many modifications can be made to adapt a particular situation to the teachings of the claimed subject without departing from the central concept described herein. Thus, while claimed subject matter is not limited to the specific examples disclosed, it is intended that such claimed subject matter may also include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.

Throughout the present disclosure, when a part is said to be "connected" to another part, this includes not only the case that it is "directly connected", but also the case that it is "electrically connected" with another element interposed therebetween. do. In addition, throughout the present disclosure, when a member is said to be located "on" another member, this includes not only the case where a member is in contact with the other member, but also the case where another member exists between the two members. Furthermore, throughout the present disclosure, when a certain part "includes" a certain component, it means that other components may be further included rather than excluding other components unless otherwise stated. The terms "about," "substantially", etc. of the degree used in the present disclosure are used at or close to the numerical value when manufacturing and material tolerances specific to the stated meaning are presented, and to aid understanding of the present application In order to prevent unreasonable use by unscrupulous infringers of the stated disclosures, either exact or absolute figures are used.

The scope of the present disclosure is indicated by the claims to be described later rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modified forms derived from the meaning and scope of the claims, and their equivalent concepts should be construed as being included in the scope of the present disclosure. do.

Claims (15)

A method performed in an integrated management server to provide vehicle parking location information to vehicle users,
Receiving a signal relating to at least one of entering and parking the parking lot of the vehicle;
Transmitting at least one command for photographing an identification symbol displayed on a parking pole to the terminal of the vehicle user;
Receiving an image photographed by the vehicle user's terminal according to the at least one command and including an identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle;
Extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image; And
Transmitting the extracted text of the identification symbol to the terminal of the vehicle user
Including,
The at least one command is performed by an integrated management server including at least one of a visual push notification and an audible push notification for inducing photographing of an identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar. delete The method of claim 1,
The at least one command further comprises a command for activating the camera included in the terminal of the vehicle user, the method performed in the integrated management server. The method of claim 1,
The step of receiving the signal is to receive the signal from at least one of the local server of the parking lot and the terminal of the vehicle user, the method performed in the integrated management server. The method of claim 1,
After the extracting and before the transmitting,
Retrieving map information of the parking lot from a database storing map information of the parking lot where the vehicle enters; And
Matching the extracted text of the identification symbol to the map information of the parking lot
Method performed in the integrated management server further comprising. The method of claim 5,
The transmitting step is to additionally transmit at least one of the map information of the parking lot and the matching result value, the method performed in the integrated management server. As an integrated management server for providing vehicle parking location information to vehicle users,
A communication module capable of communicating with a terminal of the vehicle user and configured to receive an image transmitted from the terminal of the vehicle user;
A processing module configured to process the image received from a terminal of the vehicle user through the communication module to provide parking position information of the vehicle; And
Database configured to store information of the vehicle user
Including,
The communication module is further configured to receive a signal regarding at least one of entering and parking a parking lot of the vehicle,
The processing module is further configured to generate at least one command for photographing the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar based on the information of the vehicle user stored in the database according to the received signal,
The communication module is further configured to transmit the generated at least one command to the terminal of the vehicle user,
The at least one command includes at least one of a visual push notification and an audible push notification for inducing photographing of an identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar,
The image includes an identification symbol photographed at the terminal of the vehicle user according to the at least one command and displayed on the parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle,
The processing module is further configured to extract the identification symbol as text from the image, and the communication module is further configured to transmit the text of the identification symbol extracted by the processing module to the terminal of the vehicle user. server. delete The method of claim 7,
The at least one command further comprises a command for activating a camera included in the terminal of the vehicle user, the integrated management server. The method of claim 7,
The communication module is further configured to receive the signal from at least one of a local server of the parking lot and a terminal of the vehicle user, the integrated management server. The method of claim 7,
The database is further configured to store map information of the parking lot where the vehicle enters,
The processing module is further configured to retrieve the map information of the parking lot from the database and match the extracted text of the identification symbol thereto,
The communication module is further configured to transmit at least one of the map information of the parking lot and the result value of the matching to the terminal of the vehicle user. As a system for providing vehicle parking location information to vehicle users,
A local server of a parking lot in which the vehicle is parked;
An integrated management server communicatively connected to the local server; And
Terminal of the vehicle user
Including,
The local server is configured to identify at least one of whether the vehicle is occupied and whether or not parked, generate a signal regarding at least one of whether the vehicle is entered or not, and transmit the signal to the integrated management server,
The integrated management server receives the signal, identifies the vehicle user and the terminal of the vehicle user based on this signal, and, in response to this signal, of the identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle It is configured to generate at least one command related to photographing, and to transmit the generated at least one command to the terminal of the identified vehicle user,
The vehicle user's terminal receives the at least one command and provides the vehicle user with at least one of a visual notification message and an audible notification message for inducing photographing of the identification symbol to the vehicle user. System to provide to. The method of claim 12,
The integrated management server, a communication module configured to receive an image including an identification symbol photographed at the vehicle user's terminal and displayed on a parking pillar around the parking position of the vehicle, and extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image It includes a processing module configured to,
The integrated management server is further configured to transmit the text of the identification symbol extracted from the processing module to the terminal of the vehicle user, and the terminal of the vehicle user receives the text of the identification symbol and uses it as parking position information of the vehicle. The system for providing the vehicle user with information on the parking position of the vehicle, further configured to provide the vehicle user with the vehicle user. A computer program stored in a recording medium of an integrated management server for providing vehicle parking position information to a vehicle user and executed by the integrated management server,
At least one command related to receiving a signal related to at least one of the vehicle's parking lot entry and parking from at least one of a terminal of the vehicle user and a local server of a parking lot in which the vehicle is parked;
At least one command related to transmitting at least one command related to photographing of an identification symbol displayed on a parking post around the parking position of the vehicle to the terminal of the vehicle user;
At least one command related to receiving an image including the identification symbol by being photographed at a terminal of the vehicle user according to the at least one command;
At least one instruction related to extracting the identification symbol as text from the received image; And
At least one command related to transmitting the extracted text of the identification symbol to the terminal of the vehicle user
Including,
The at least one command includes at least one of a visual push notification and an audible push notification for inducing photographing of an identification symbol displayed on the parking pillar. The computer program stored in the recording medium of the integrated management server. The method of claim 14,
At least one command related to fetching map information of the parking lot from a database storing map information of the parking lot;
At least one instruction related to matching the extracted text of the identification symbol with the map information of the parking lot; And
At least one command related to transmitting at least one of the map information of the parking lot and the result of the matching to the terminal of the vehicle user
The computer program stored in the recording medium of the integrated management server further comprising a.

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