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7385526 Vehicle locating device  
A wireless vehicle identification assembly includes a portable controller that generates and sends a wireless locating signal. The locating signal has a preprogrammed verification data stream...
7382280 Parking violation recording system and method  
A parking violation recording system capable of recording violations based on the location of a violating vehicle, is provided. The system includes at least one camera located on a mass transit...
7382278 Parked vehicle location system  
A parked vehicle location system including a plurality of detectors, where each detector is operative to detect whether or not a vehicle is present in at least one of a plurality of parking spaces,...
7382277 System for tracking suspicious vehicular activity  
A system for monitoring and tracking vehicles in parking locations, public roadways and highway entrances and exits and other public vehicle access areas and to monitor and track vehicles in...
7379564 Movable body circumstance monitoring apparatus  
A movable body circumstance monitoring apparatus includes element for capturing an image of a surrounding of a movable body depending upon movement of the movable body, deriving at least four...
7378988 Method for warning a driver when parking a motor vehicle on a longitudinally inclined roadway without wheel deflection  
A method for warning a driver when parking a motor vehicle, in which an inclination variable describing the roadway inclination in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is ascertained, a...
7375651 Parking assistance apparatus  
In a parking assistance apparatus disclosed herein, when a lateral parking mode switch is set at an initial stop position A, a controller calculates a backward movement start position B for parking...
7375621 Vehicle parking apparatus  
A distance indicating apparatus and method determine the distance between a fixed object and a moving object (such as a motor vehicle, airplane or water vessel) by using two spaced-apart projectors...
7369940 Method for operating a display system in a vehicle for driving into a parking space  
A method for operating a display system in a vehicle ( 03 ) when driving into a parking space ( 06 ), uses a camera ( 01 ) with an image processing unit in which the image data obtained by the...
7369061 Vehicle locator device  
A device for locating a parked vehicle has a remote mobile unit with an aerodynamic housing, including a base and a transparent lens covering an illuminating visual indicator, such as a strobe...
7369041 Vehicle surrounding display device  
A device displays images such that a driver can easily recognize an obstacle. The device includes a measurement for measuring a distance and direction to an obstacle, a comparison section for...
7365641 Vehicle proximity alerting system and method  
A vehicle proximity alerting system and method is provided. The system includes: a sensor unit having a plurality of sensors for measuring distances from other vehicles; a system controlling unit...
7363130 Parking assist systems, methods, and programs  
Parking assist systems, methods, and programs may take a peripheral image of a vehicle; and may display the peripheral image on a display. The systems, methods, and programs may recognize a parking...
7362238 Vehicle back-up guide  
A vehicle backing guide for marking a parking area into which a vehicle may be backed, comprising an elongate strap, a plurality of bright segments spaced apart longitudinally along the strap...
7362216 Reversing sensor without a control box  
A reversing sensor device applies a master-slave type of sensor architecture. The reversing sensor device includes at least one master-sensor and more than one slave-sensor. The master-sensor...
7358864 Parking assist control apparatus  
In a parking assist control apparatus for assisting a driver with parking a vehicle, when a brake control ECU detects that a door is open based on a detection signal from a door open/close sensor...
7346719 Systems, methods, and bus controllers for creating an event trigger on a network bus  
The present invention provides systems, methods, and bus controllers ( 12 ) for monitoring an event of interest via a network bus ( 14 ) and creating an asynchronous event trigger on the network...
7342511 Digital camera valet gate  
A system and method for managing a valet parking system enables the tracking of the damage to vehicles. The method provides for linking digital images of a vehicle to a set of valet parking data....
7339495 System and method for reading license plates  
A method for reading a license plate disposed on a vehicle includes determining whether a license plate image is required, automatically processing the license plate image in response to...
7336805 Docking assistant  
Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in...
7336204 Method for monitoring a parking lot with parking meters and corresponding parking meters  
A method for monitoring a number of terminals, particularly parking meters, in which at least first and second adjacent terminals are able to communicate with each other and with a monitoring...
7330131 Automatic system for monitoring and managing the admittance to parking places  
An integrated automatic system for remote monitoring and management of vehicle access and parking in urban areas on a selective bases comprises: a mobile recognition device ( 17 ), in which a user...
7321317 Method for intelligent parking/pollution and surveillance control system  
The invention relates to systems to manage parking meters using mechanical, electrical and electromechanicals monitoring and transmitting devices. Such intelligent parking meters may be used for...
RE40013 Method and apparatus for detection and remote notification of vehicle parking space availability data  
A method and apparatus for providing timely and efficient notification of vehicle parking space availability and locations of vehicle parking spaces to motorists or other network users. Local...
7312722 System and method for assessing parking space occupancy and for reserving same  
A method and apparatus for determining the availability of a plurality of parking spaces and of reserving one or more of such available parking spaces is disclosed. The method comprises the steps...
7301479 Trailer detection circuit for a vehicle park assist system  
Vehicle park assist systems and a method of operating a vehicle including an operably attached trailer. The vehicle park assist system includes a transmitter arrangement to produce incident energy...
7298247 Vehicle periphery monitoring system  
If the detected distance from a vehicle to a detected obstacle is equal to or greater than a preset distance, then a vehicle periphery monitoring system performs an image processing process on a...
7271738 Restricted parking system  
A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling management of restricted parking spaces for vehicles. In an example, a sensing system senses the presence of vehicles in...
7271725 Customer service robot  
A customer robot enabling a customer service including key management with respect to a plurality of lock-equipped objects in an environment such as vehicles in a parking lot is provided. The robot...
7266219 Monitoring system  
For supporting a complicated driving operation, a synthesized image is presented to the driver. The driver can view this image and thus drive with a sense of security. The synthesized image may...
7260472 GPS-based traffic monitoring system  
A method for providing traffic information comprises maintaining a list of vehicles that are subscribers of the traffic information. The method comprises receiving vector and location data from a...
7257486 Parking assisting device  
A parking assisting device including an image capturing unit for capturing at least an image behind the vehicle, a monitor for displaying the image obtained by the image capturing unit, a yaw angle...
7253747 Parking lot management system using wireless LAN system  
In a parking lot management system, which is applied to a parking lot having a plurality of parking spaces, information about parking is wirelessly communicated between a plurality of wireless LAN...
7248153 Method for parking a vehicle  
A method for parking a vehicle in which distances of the vehicle from obstacles as well as the length and/or width of a parking space are determined. Sensors are used for parking space...
7239958 Apparatus and method for discerning a driver's intent and for aiding the driver  
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the intent of a driver of a motor vehicle in moving a trailer towed by the motor vehicle along a desired path. The method comprises the step of...
7239252 Communications system and program  
A communications system in a first vehicle sends departing information indicating that the first vehicle is about to depart from a parking space along with the vehicle information of the first...
7237641 Driving support apparatus  
A driving support apparatus of the present invention comprises an imaging device which picks up a peripheral image of a vehicle, a detecting device which detects action information of a moving...
7230545 Automobile communication and registry system  
The invention is directed to method and system for providing automatic vehicle registration and control via transceiver-facilitated wireless communication of a unique vehicle identification code...
7230524 Obstacle detection device  
An obstacle detection device includes: an obstacle detection section ( 11 ) for emitting beams having a predetermined divergence angle consecutively in a plurality of different directions,...
7225070 Parking guidance system for large vehicles  
A parking guidance system for large vehicles has a horizontal bar, a data collection assembly and a console unit. The horizontal bar is hollow and is mounted on the rear bumper, and houses the data...
7215255 Method and apparatus for a satellite positioning-based metering system for use in transport-related applications  
A system and method for monitoring, measuring, and/or usage metering of a vehicle involving tracking continuous movement and position of the vehicle for priced parking spots, priced roads, and/or...
7205908 Systems and methods for proximity control of a barrier  
A system and method for proximity control of a barrier comprises a stationary wireless signal receiving device and a mobile transmitting device. The wireless signal receiving device may monitor at...
7205905 Parking assistance system for vehicles and corresponding method  
The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance system for a vehicle, comprising at least one distance sensor that detects at least sections of the lateral immediate vicinity...
7190259 Surrounding surveillance apparatus and mobile body  
A mobile body surrounding surveillance apparatus is provided which comprises an omnidirectional vision sensor comprising an optical system for reflecting light incident from a maximum surrounding...
7161498 Vehicle positioning apparatus  
Vehicle positioning apparatus for facilitating the positioning of a vehicle in a specific position within an enclosure having an automatic door opening device with concurrently activated light...
7158015 Vision-based method and system for automotive parking aid, reversing aid, and pre-collision sensing application  
A vision-based object detection decision-making system ( 10 ) for a vehicle ( 12 ) includes multiple vision sensing systems ( 14 ) that have vision receivers ( 20 ) and that generate an object...
7151468 Stop alert warning system  
An on-site roadway warning system for alerting a driver of an approaching vehicle of a need to brake the vehicle. A transceiver radiates electromagnetic energy toward the approaching vehicle and...
7146345 Parking barrier with accident event logging and self-diagnostic control system  
A parking area entrance or exit barrier includes a control system which receives inputs from various accessories associated with the operation of the barrier, and which provides control signals to...
7123167 Vehicle parking assistance electronic timer system and method  
An electronic timer system includes a first unit. The first unit includes a memory device configured to store predetermined parking rule data, a timer device configured to determine at least one of...
7123166 Method for managing a parking lot  
A method is disclosed for managing a parking lot. In one disclosed embodiment, the method includes receiving parking lot data. The embodiment of the disclosed method also includes transforming the...
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