US 12,112,631 B2
Method and parking guidance system for assigning a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space
Sebastian Heise, Rahden (DE)
Assigned to Graphmasters SA, Zürich (CH)
Filed by Graphmasters SA, Zürich (CH)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,675.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 125 861.8 (DE), filed on Oct. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0107149 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/143 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3492 (2013.01); G01C 21/3685 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for allocating a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space, the method comprising:
in response to a request sent to a parking guidance system by at least one vehicle driver for a parking space for his vehicle to reach a destination, which request comprises position data of the vehicle, a corresponding selection of an available parking space is carried out and the available parking space is suggested to the at least one vehicle driver;
a route is determined with the aid of a navigation system assigned to the parking guidance system and is taken from the location of the vehicle at the time of the parking space request to the available parking space; and
the vehicle driver is navigated along the determined route to the available parking space;
wherein the parking space selection and route guidance along the determined route are fed back to one another; and
wherein when an additional vehicle driver occupies with his vehicle a parking space which is selected as the available parking space for the at least one vehicle driver and to which the at least one vehicle driver is navigated, sending by the parking guidance system a request to the additional vehicle driver to approach an additional parking space and the additional vehicle driver is navigated to the additional parking space in order to use the additional parking space at an expected arrival time that the at least one vehicle driver arrives to use the available parking space.