公开(公告)号：US11231280B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-25

申请号：US16029091

申请日：2018-07-06

Applicant: INRIX Inc.

Inventor： Indra Puri ,  Linjun Zhou ,  William M Hsu ,  Dominic Jason Jordan ,  Patchrawat Uthaisombut ,  Douglas Irvine

IPC: G01C21/20 ,  G08G1/14 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01C21/34 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G01C21/36

Abstract: Contemporary navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination, but are poorly equipped to assist with finding a vacancy of a parking opportunity in which the vehicle may be parked. Static information, such as enumeration of parking garages and curbside parking meters, may be frustrating if such parking opportunities have no vacancies. The determination of vacancies with certainty may be difficult to achieve due to the characteristic volatility of parking, in which vacancies may be taken in seconds. Presented herein are navigation device configurations involving probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, optionally weighted by various factors, to identify a parking route with parking opportunities that collectively present a high probability of vacancy as compared with other parking routes, which may be presented to the user and/or appended to a current route of an autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US12031827B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17580826

申请日：2022-01-21

Applicant: INRIX Inc.

Inventor： Indra Puri ,  Linjun Zhou ,  William M Hsu ,  Dominic Jason Jordan ,  Patchrawat Uthaisombut ,  Douglas Irvine

IPC: G01C21/20 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G08G1/14

CPC classification number: G01C21/20 ,  B60W30/06 ,  G01C21/3461 ,  G01C21/3691 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G08G1/141

Abstract: Contemporary navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination, but are poorly equipped to assist with finding a vacancy of a parking opportunity in which the vehicle may be parked. Static information, such as enumeration of parking garages and curbside parking meters, may be frustrating if such parking opportunities have no vacancies. The determination of vacancies with certainty may be difficult to achieve due to the characteristic volatility of parking, in which vacancies may be taken in seconds. Presented herein are navigation device configurations involving probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, optionally weighted by various factors, to identify a parking route with parking opportunities that collectively present a high probability of vacancy as compared with other parking routes, which may be presented to the user and/or appended to a current route of an autonomous vehicle.