TWI482128B - A vehicle parking information query system - Google Patents

Description

Vehicle stop information inquiry system

The present invention relates to an inquiry system, and more particularly, to an inquiry system for inquiring vehicle parking information.

Finding the location of a vehicle in a large parking lot such as a store, airport or department store is often a nightmare for the owner or vehicle user. Traditionally, the remote warning function on the key can be used to identify the vehicle by listening to the sound of the vehicle. The location is to search for vehicles; satellite navigation can also be used to find vehicles. However, the remote warning function on the key must function when the key approaches the vehicle, and the echo of the parking lot sometimes makes the sound of the remote warning difficult to distinguish the orientation; the architecture of the satellite positioning navigation is not only complicated, but also deep underground. The satellite signal may not be received in the parking lot, causing the function to fail and not meeting the user's needs.

In addition, taking Taiwan's invention patent case No. M411633 as an example of "a parking lot video parking space finding control device", the vehicle identification number of the vehicle is captured by means of video identification, and the parking information of the vehicle is stored through the license plate number. Then, the user can obtain the parking information of the vehicle by inputting the license plate number on the specific device. In this way, although the problem of finding a car caused by poor parking lot echo or satellite signal reception can be solved, if the license plate cannot obtain the correct vehicle license plate number through video recognition due to filth or other factors, the user cannot enter the license plate number even if the license plate number is entered. Get the stop information of the vehicle. Moreover, if the vehicle sought is not owned by the user (for example, rented or borrowed from a friend), the user may not remember the license plate number of the vehicle, so it is even less likely to use the device of No. M411633 to input the license plate number to obtain the parking information of the vehicle.

Based on the foregoing, how to provide an inquiry system that does not need to pass the vehicle license plate number, and conveniently find the location of the vehicle in the parking lot is an urgent problem to be solved.

In view of the above problems of the prior art, the main object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle parking information inquiry system, including: an input module, a servo module, and an inquiry module.

The input module has a plurality of first sensing elements, and the plurality of first sensing elements are respectively disposed in one of a plurality of areas of the parking lot, and can be used for sensing the identification module carrying the identification code in each area for input identification. Code, the vehicle parking information system can distinguish different users' information; the servo module receives the identification code from the input module, and senses the first position of the first sensing component of the identification module according to the input module. Defining and storing the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs; the query module has a second sensing component and a prompting component, wherein the second sensing component is used to sense the identification module to input the identification code, and the query module will be The identification code input by the second sensing component is provided to the servo module, and the self-servo module captures the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs, and the prompting component prompts the vehicle to stop the information, and the prompting component can further prompt the vehicle to stop the information and the second. The vehicle-seeking information related to the second position where the sensing component is located, and the user can find the parked vehicle according to the information of the car prompted by the prompting component.

A secondary object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle parking information inquiry system including an exit module, the outlet module having a third sensing component, which is located at a third position where the parking lot exit is located, and when the user prepares to leave the parking lot, The third position causes the third sensing component to sense the identification module to input the identification code, and the export module commands the servo module to clear the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs according to the identification code, so as to save the information storage space of the servo module.

The identification module can be an electronic chip card or a barcode type certificate, and the type of the electronic chip card can include an electronic employee identification card, a credit card, a joint name card, or a leisure card; the barcode type can include a barcode type employee identification card and an ID card. , driving license, or driver's license. The identification code can be a license plate number, an ID card number, a leisure card number, an employee identification number, a joint card number or a credit card number. The first, second, or third sensing element can be a barcode scanner, or an electronic wafer sensor. The servo module can store the multiple array vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs. Therefore, the vehicle parking information generated by the user sensing the identification module by the first sensing component at different positions can be stored to satisfy the user. Curiosity or other purpose of the parking lot.

The vehicle parking information may include a sensing time when the first sensing component senses the identification module, and if the user has repeated sensing of the identification module by the first sensing component at different positions, the sensing time may be determined by sensing time. Effective vehicle parking information, in addition, the servo module can also clear the invalid vehicle parking information according to the sensing time, so that the storage space can be effectively utilized. The car-seeking information prompting means of the prompting component includes a string description, a map display or a voice navigation to assist the user in finding the location of the parked vehicle in a visual or auditory manner. The servo module or the query module may further include a car search calculation unit to calculate a car search path from the second position to the first position as the content of the car search information; the car search path may be from the second position to the first position The shortest path or the fastest path.

The servo module or the query module of the present invention may further comprise an departure calculation unit to calculate an exit path from the first location near the parking lot of the vehicle to the exit of the parking lot, so that the user can smoothly leave the parking lot.

It is known that the parking space inquiry system which uses the vehicle characteristics as the main means can easily find the parking space due to the vehicle visibility and other factors, such as the license plate number and other factors, and the present invention does not require the passage of the license plate number. By waiting for the vehicle features, it is possible to find the location of the parked vehicle in the parking lot without any mistake and convenience, which has unpredictable effects.

The technical contents of the present invention are described below by way of specific embodiments, and those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the disclosure of the present specification. The invention may also be embodied or applied by other different embodiments. The details of the present invention can be variously modified and changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a schematic diagram of a vehicle parking information inquiry system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the present invention provides a vehicle parking information inquiry system for a user to conveniently search using an identification module carrying an identification code. The parked vehicle, the identification code contained in the identification module, is used by the vehicle to stop the information inquiry system to determine the identity of the user, so that the user can obtain the required vehicle stop information by using the identification code, and the identification module can be electronic. For wafer card or barcode type, the electronic chip card includes an electronic employee identification card, a credit card, a co-branded card, or a leisure card, and the barcode type certificate includes a barcode type employee identification card, an ID card, a driving license, or a driver's license. Some large-sized parking lots provide parking cards when the vehicle enters the market. When the vehicle leaves the parking lot, the user pays and leaves according to the parking card. The identification module in the present invention can also provide the identification module embedded in the parking lot. Group function parking card. It should be noted that the identification module can be any portable device or a device embedded in the portable device, and is not limited to the above. For example, a portable device such as a mobile phone can also be embedded with an identification module.

In FIG. 1, the vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention is mainly composed of an input module 12, a servo module 13, and an inquiry module 14, and the input module 12 has a plurality of first sensing elements 121, each of which The first sensing elements 121 can be respectively disposed in one of the plurality of areas of the parking lot for sensing the identification module carrying the identification code in each area to input the identification code of the identification module. After the vehicle is stopped, the user can go to the first sensing component 121 in the vicinity of the parking place of the vehicle, take out the identification module for sensing, and input the identification code contained in the identification module. At this time, the input module 12 knows that the first sensing component 121 of the location of the region performs sensing and inputs an identification code, and then the input module 12 performs the sensing of the first sensing component 121. A position and the sensed identification code are transmitted to the servo module 13. The first sensing component 121 can be an electronic chip sensor for sensing an electronic chip card or a barcode scanner for sensing a barcoded document, but is not limited thereto, and the device capable of sensing the identification module 11 All of them can be used as the first sensing element 121, and fall within the technical scope of the present invention.

After receiving the first position of the first sensing component 121 and the sensed identification code, the servo module 13 defines and stores the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs according to the first location, and the vehicle parking information system can The identification code is used as an index, and the information content may include a description about the first location, for example, a personnel transportation tool that reaches the parking floor where the first location is located, such as a staircase, an escalator, or an elevator, to return to perform sensing. The user at the first location where the first sensing element 121 is located is able to understand the personnel delivery tool that may be used.

The content of the vehicle parking information may further include a sensing time that the first sensing component 121 senses the identification module. After the user leaves the actual parking position for a certain distance, the user may forget whether the first sensing component 121 in the vicinity of the parking location has sensed the identification module held, that is, the user does not know whether the servo module 13 has The vehicle parking information to which the identification code of the identification module held by the user belongs is stored, or based on other personal reasons (for example, curious about the walking path of the user), the first sensing element 121 of the user can locate the identification mode at another location. The group senses again, that is, the user can perform the plurality of sensing on the identification module by the first sensing component 121 at different regional locations, and each of the first sensing components 121 that has sensed the identification module The location is recorded in the servo module and becomes a vehicle stop information such as an identification code, a sensing position, and a sensing time. When the same identification module performs repeated sensing at the same first sensing element 121 at different times, the internal sensing module detects the time recording for the identification module, and only records the last sensing time to avoid excessive The retention of invalid information wastes memory capacity.

For example, please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a schematic diagram of a vehicle parking information stored in a servo module according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4 , the vehicle parking information is transmitted by sensing basic data, location code, and personnel. The tool consists of three types of information, wherein the sensing basic data includes an identification code and a time series. The identification code may be composed of a plurality of characters, and the identification code shown in FIG. 4 has nine characters, but is not limited thereto. The time series can be progressively based on a specific time. In the present embodiment, the sensing time of the first sensing element pair identification module is defined by eight numbers represented by hexadecimal. The location code includes the location and the location floor. In Figure 4, the location and the location floor are represented by two characters. The personnel conveying tool can represent the personnel conveying tool that can be used to reach the position in the form of a Bolin value. The present embodiment provides three kinds of personnel conveying tools, namely a staircase, an elevator, and an escalator.

The user holds the identification module carrying the identification code D33-222-111, and the two first sensing elements 121 at different positions respectively sense the identification module, so that the same identification code D33-222-111 is Two vehicle parking information is stored in the servo module 13. In this embodiment, the user first senses the identification module carrying the identification code D33-222-111 at the position D4, and then detects the identification module at the position E5, but then thinks back again. The position D4 performs repeated sensing on the identification module. At this time, the time series content in the sensing record of the original identification code D33-222-111 at the position D4 is updated, and is greater than the identification code D33-222-111. E5 sensed time series, therefore, the time sequence of the recorded vehicle stop information may be greater than the time sequence of the recorded vehicle stop information (in the description of the embodiment, the time series value is larger indicates later) time).

The query module 14 has a second sensing component 141 and a prompting component 142. The second sensing component 141 is configured to sense the identification module to input an identification code for the query module 14 to provide the input of the second sensing component 141. The identification code is given to the servo module 13, and the self-servo module 13 retrieves the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs. The cueing element 142 can be a display or a speaker to prompt the vehicle to stop the information. In addition, the prompting component 142 can be further used to prompt the vehicle-seeking information related to the vehicle parking information and the second position where the second sensing component 141 is located, which will be described in detail later. The query module 14 can have a plurality of second sensing elements 141 and a prompting element 142 arranged in pairs, which can be respectively disposed in one of a plurality of areas in the parking lot, and can be taken out when the user finishes the matter to find a parking lot in the parking lot. The identification module senses the second sensing component 141 closest to the nearest module 141 so that the query module 14 inputs the identification code carried in the identification module. Then, the query module 14 transmits the identification code sensed by the second sensing component 141 to the servo module 13, so that the servo module 13 can find relevant vehicle parking information according to the identification code, and find out the relevant information. The vehicle parking information is provided through the prompting component 142 disposed in pairs with the second sensing component 141 of the input identification code, and the prompting includes the second position where the second sensing component 141 is located to the first location where the first sensing component 121 is located. The car-seeking path information, the user can thus know the car-seeking path from the second position to the first position, and conveniently find the parked vehicle in the vehicle sea. The second sensing element 141 may be selected from elements similar or identical to the first sensing element 121, and is not described herein.

The prompting means of the prompting component 142 for the car-seeking path information may include a string description, a map display, and/or a voice navigation. For example, the prompting component 142 may include a display for displaying a car-seeking hint string or a car-seeking map. The path from the aforementioned second position to the aforementioned first position can be clearly understood by means of text or graphics, and the previously parked vehicle can be conveniently found. In addition, the prompting element 142 can also include a speaker that teaches the user how to reach the aforementioned first position from the aforementioned second position by voice navigation. After the user searches for a distance according to the prompt, the nearby prompting component 142 can be sensed again, so as to know the current search position to the first position of the search path, so that the vehicle parking information query by the present invention In the case of a complicated parking space parking lot, the car search information obtained by the first prompt cannot be found in the car, and even in the car search process, the user can reuse the nearest second sensing component. With the prompting component, re-acquire the search route information to gradually find the parked vehicle.

The foregoing car-seeking path may include a shortest path or a fastest path from the second position to the first position, and the shortest path is not necessarily the fastest path. For example, please refer to FIG. 3, which is a schematic diagram for explaining a car-seeking path. As shown in FIG. 3, if the second position where the user is located and the first position near the parking position of the vehicle belong to different floors, the second position is on the high floor (as shown in FIG. 3), and the first position is on the lower floor. (As shown in Figure 3, where the car is parked), there are two ways to go from high to low: take the escalator or take the high-speed elevator to walk. As shown in FIG. 3, the first position and the second position are located just at the front and rear ends of the escalator. Obviously, the shortest path from the second position to the first position can be achieved by means of boarding the escalator, however, the ride on the escalator is not visible. The fastest route is as follows: Assume that the travel speeds of the escalator and the high-speed elevator are v1 and v2, respectively, and the statistical method is used to estimate that the user's walking speed is v3, and the time required for the high-speed elevator to reach the user's floor is t0. The length L1 of the escalator slope path, the length L2 of the high-speed elevator lifting path, and the length L3 of the horizontal traveling path can be estimated by the formula of L1/v1 to the time required for the escalator to reach the first position from the second position. T1, and through the formula of t0+L2/v2+L3/v3, it can be estimated that the time t23 required for the second position to take the high-speed elevator and then walk to the first position, based on safety, the walking speed v1 of the escalator in some places It is much smaller than the traveling speed v2 of the high-speed elevator, or the high floor where the second position is located and the lower floor where the first position is located has other floors, and the length L1 of the escalator slope path is long. Therefore, after t1 may be larger than the T23 is calculated, in other words, the shortest path can be achieved through the escalator, but not necessarily be the fastest route to reach. In this regard, the vehicle stop information inquiry system of the present invention can prompt the user for the search information including the shortest path or the fastest path through the prompting component 142 of the query module 14. In the present invention, the servo module 13 or the query module 14 further has a car search calculation unit to calculate a search path from the second position to the first position as all or part of the car search information. The homing path is the shortest path or the fastest path from the second location to the first location. The homing calculation unit may be disposed in the servo module 13 to form a centralized architecture or disposed in the query module 14 to form a distributed architecture. The design of the centralized or decentralized architecture depends on the cost, performance, or other considerations of the system design, and the present invention is not limited by the mode of the system design architecture.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a schematic diagram of an additional exit module of the vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2 , the vehicle parking information stored in the servo module 13 may be invalid because the vehicle has left, and the invalid vehicle The parking information will cause a load and waste of 100 million capacity in the servo module 13. In view of this, the vehicle parking system of the present invention further includes an exit module 15 having a third sensing component 151, which is located at the exit of the parking lot. In the third position, when the vehicle is ready to leave the parking lot, the user can take out the identification module for sensing by the third sensing component 151, and cause the exit module 15 to input the identification code in the identification module, and transmit the identification code. The servo module 13 is configured to command the servo module 13 to clear the vehicle parking information to which the identification code input in the outlet module 15 belongs, thereby releasing the memory space in the servo module 13 to free more memory space for storing other The vehicle to which the identification code belongs is the stop information. The third sensing element 151 can be selected from elements similar or identical to the first and second sensing elements 121, 141.

In the present invention, the servo module 13 or the query module 14 is further provided with an departure calculation unit to calculate an departure path from the first position to the parking lot exit. In addition to prompting the car search information for the user to find the stopped vehicle, the prompting component 142 can also prompt the departure path of the vehicle, that is, the path from the first position to the third position where the parking lot exit is located, for the user to understand how to Drive the vehicle off the parking lot. The departure calculation unit may be optionally disposed in the servo module 11 to form a centralized architecture, or selected to be disposed in the query module 14 to form a distributed architecture, a centralized or decentralized architecture, designing the cost, performance, or other design of the system design. The present invention is not limited by the mode of the system design architecture, depending on the considerations.

In order to effectively release the memory space of the servo module 13, the administrator of the vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention can set the time condition in the servo module 13, and the servo module 13 automatically deletes any storage time exceeding the set time condition. The vehicle stops the information, or the administrator can choose to manually delete the invalid vehicle parking information. Furthermore, various means for saving the memory capacity of the information system can be applied to the present invention to save the usage of the memory space. For example, the vehicle parking information whose storage time exceeds the set time condition can be used for information compression, thereby reducing the information. The servo module 13 memorizes the amount of space used.

The sensing method of the first, second or third sensing element pair identification module mentioned above may utilize various wireless communication methods (for example, Bluetooth or ZigBee communication protocol) or wired mode (for example, USB or RS-232). The transmission agreement is fulfilled and the manner in which the sensing is achieved does not limit the scope of the invention.

Through the vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention, the user can use the sensing interface provided by the present invention, the hand-held simple identification module, and the diversified prompting manner (for example, voice navigation or map display) and selective car search. The path (for example, the shortest path or the fastest path) makes it easy to find the parked vehicle in a large parking lot.

The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. Modifications and variations of the above-described embodiments can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the claims of the present invention should be as described in the following claims.

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1 is a schematic diagram of a vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention. 2 is a schematic diagram of an additional exit module of the vehicle parking information inquiry system of the present invention. [Fig. 3] is a schematic diagram for explaining a car-seeking path. 4 is a schematic diagram of a vehicle parking information stored in a servo module according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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Claims (9)

A vehicle parking information inquiry system includes: an input module having a plurality of first sensing elements, wherein the plurality of first sensing elements are respectively disposed in one of a plurality of areas of the parking lot for sensing in each area An identification module having an identification code for inputting the identification code; the servo module receiving the identification code from the input module, and sensing, according to the input module, the first sensing component of the identification module a first location, the vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs is defined and stored, the vehicle parking information includes a sensing time of the first sensing component to sense the identification module; the input module can be first in different regional locations The sensing component performs multiple sensing on the identification module, and each position of the first sensing component that has sensed the identification module is recorded in the servo module, and becomes an identification code and a sensing position. Detecting time of vehicle parking information; when the same identification module performs repeated sensing at the same time on the same first sensing component, the servo module internally senses the time recording of the identification module, The last sensing time is recorded to avoid the waste of memory capacity of the excess invalid information; and the query module has a second sensing component and a prompting component, and the second sensing component is configured to sense the identification module Entering the identification code, the query module provides an identification code input by the second sensing component to the servo module; wherein the servo module receives the identification code provided by the query module, and the identifier is The vehicle parking information is provided to the query module, and the query module prompts the vehicle to stop the information through the prompting component. The vehicle parking information inquiry system of claim 1, further comprising an exit module, the outlet module having a third sensing component disposed at a third location of the parking lot exit for sensing the identification The module inputs the identification code, and the exit module provides the identification code to the servo module. After receiving the identification code provided by the exit module, the servo module clears the vehicle stop information to which the identification code belongs. The vehicle docking information inquiry system of claim 1, wherein the identification module is an electronic chip card or a barcode type certificate; the prompting element is a display or a speaker. The vehicle parking information inquiry system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the second sensing element is disposed at the second position, and the prompting element further prompts the vehicle parking information and the second position. Search for information. The vehicle parking information inquiry system according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a license plate number, an identity card number, a leisure card number, an employee identification number, a joint card number or a credit card number. The vehicle docking information inquiry system of claim 2, wherein the first, second or third sensing element is a barcode scanner or an electronic chip sensor. The vehicle parking information inquiry system of claim 1, wherein the servo module stores a plurality of vehicle parking information to which the identification code belongs; the information seeking means of the prompting component includes a string description and a map display. Or voice navigation. The vehicle parking information inquiry system of claim 4, wherein the servo module or the query module further includes a car search calculation unit to calculate a car search from the second position to the first position. The path serves as the content of the car-searching information. The vehicle parking information inquiry system of claim 1, wherein the servo module or the query module further comprises an departure calculation unit to calculate an departure path from the first location to the parking lot exit.