US 11,875,606 B2
Method and system for managing a parking lot based on intelligent imaging
Daniel Cohen, Brooklyn, NY (US); Richard Joffe, New York, NY (US); Bob Caspe, Sherborn, MA (US); Aaron Isaksen, Brooklyn, NY (US); Ilan Goodman, New York, NY (US); Ian Yamey, New York, NY (US); Michael Klevansky, New York, NY (US); Andrew Crawford, Naas (IE); Konstantyn Prokopenko, Brooklyn, NY (US); Steven Hartman, Commack, NY (US); Aurelien Ramondou, New York, NY (US); Mark Kudas, Astoria, NY (US); and Ezequiel Cura, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to TKH Security LLC, Cheshire, CT (US)
Filed by TKH SECURITY LLC, Cheshire, CT (US)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/582,249.
Application 15/406,797 is a division of application No. 13/697,380, granted, now 9,594,956, issued on Mar. 14, 2017, previously published as PCT/IB2011/052024, filed on May 8, 2011.
Application 17/582,249 is a continuation of application No. 15/406,797, filed on Jan. 16, 2017, granted, now 11,232,301, issued on Jan. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/332,822, filed on May 10, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2022/0148303 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07B 15/02 (2011.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC G07B 15/02 (2013.01) [G08G 1/14 (2013.01); G08G 1/142 (2013.01); H04N 7/18 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of cameras mounted in a parking structure that comprises a plurality of parking spaces, the plurality of cameras arranged in the parking structure such that each camera of the plurality of cameras monitors respective multiple parking spaces of the plurality of parking spaces, wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras monitoring the respective multiple parking spaces of the plurality of parking spaces comprises each camera obtaining a respective first image of the respective multiple parking spaces;
at least one controller operatively coupled to the plurality of cameras, the at least one controller configured to, based on the monitoring of the plurality of parking spaces by the plurality of cameras, track numbers of vacant parking spaces in a plurality of physical areas of the parking structure, wherein the at least one controller tracking numbers of vacant parking spaces comprises the at least one controller:
classifying each respective first image to occupied status or vacant status,
providing each respective first image, that has been classified to vacant status, to a graphical user interface of a human operator, and
receiving a change of status from the human operator for a particular parking space of the plurality of parking spaces from vacant status to occupied status; and
a display device configured to receive, from at least one of the at least one controller, guidance to available parking in the parking structure based on the tracked numbers of vacant parking spaces in the plurality of physical areas of the parking structure, the display device further configured to display the guidance to the available parking.