Canadian Intellectual Property Office Receives Parkling GmbH's Patent Application for Transportable Recording Apparatus for Recording Data for a Localized Panoramic Image of a Street
| Published date | 21 April 2022 |
| Publication title | Global IP News (India) |
Canadian Intellectual Property Office has released the abstract. According to the abstract, "The invention relates to a transportable recording apparatus for recording data for a localized panoramic image of a street for detachable mounting in and/or on a vehicle. The transportable recording apparatus has a computing unit, a buffer accumulator, a switch-mode power supply, a camera for recording a continuous film and a fastening device for the camera. Moreover, a device for satellite-based position and time determination as well as an electric power supply device for the electric power supply of the components are provided. The camera, the fastening device and the device for satellite-based position and time determination are designed separately and spatially apart from the computing unit. The transportable recording apparatus can be dismantled into individual parts. Furthermore, the invention relates to a vehicle with the transportable recording apparatus. TRANSPORTABLE RECORDING APPARATUS FOR RECORDING DATA FOR A LOCALIZED PANORAMIC IMAGE OF A STREET The invention relates to a transportable recording apparatus for recording data for a localized panoramic image of a street for detachable mounting in and/or on a vehicle. For this purpose, the transportable recording apparatus has a computing unit, a buffer accumulator and a switch-mode power supply for converting the voltage of an on-board energy supply of the vehicle into voltage for the transportable recording apparatus. .. Furthermore, the recording apparatus has a camera for recording a continuous film and a fastening device for positioning the camera in and/or on the vehicle. In addition, a device for satellite-based position and time determination is provided as well as an electric power supply device for the electric power supply of the computing unit, the camera and the device for satellite-based position and time determination. The electric power supply device is coupled with the switch-mode power supply and the buffer accumulator. Furthermore, the invention relates to a vehicle with a transportable recording apparatus for recording data for a localized panoramic image of a street. As a result of the population growth in urban regions traffic is increasing, in particular also the individual traffic in passenger cars. Especially in the inner-city area this massive increase in traffic density leads to problems which cause a shortage of space that can no longer be solved by simple means. Further problems are the concomitant noise pollution through traffic but also the exposure to contaminants which, in the meantime, is being increasingly regarded with concern. Studies have shown that approximately 30% of inner-city traffic is no classical transportation traffic but can be ascribed to vehicles in search of a parking space. Projections for Germany reveal that 1.9 billion hours are spent on searching out parking spaces. For this, 3.2 billion liters of fuel are consumed. All in all, an economic loss in the amount of 40.4 billion Euro is assumed. Date Recue/Date Received 2021-03-24 - 2 -Therefore, the call for a parking space management that reduces this traffic in search of a parking space makes its presence felt to an increasing extent. In the case of such systems a basic distinction is made between two states of data ascertainment. On the one hand, static data would have to be obtained, which indicate where parking spaces are located, at which times parking in these parking spaces is permitted but which also provide information as to how the parking spaces are to be parked in, e.g. as lengthways or cross-wise parking. This also includes information about no-parking zones as well as possible parking fees. Such data are referred to as static data and constitute the fundamental prerequisite for a parking space management. The second state of data ascertainment resides in ascertaining so-called dynamic data which represent information on the current parking space occupancy situation. One possibility of ascertaining static data is known from DE 10 2018 214 510 A1 for example. In this case, however, only information as to whether a parking space is available or not can be ascertained. Data indicating at which times parking is permitted or whether this is a driveway for example can only be established with great difficulty. A known possibility of ascertaining localized data of a street resides for example in the use of specifically equipped vehicles as they are employed to produce the data for Google Street View. These have a complex roof structure that often has a height of at least 1 m and several separate individual cameras as well as a GPS-receiver. The cameras serve to produce individual pictures. For the electric power supply of this system large batteries are installed in the interior of the vehicle. In addition, in the vehicles, in most cases in the trunk, firmly built-in bulky servers are provided that process and record the data. The corresponding vehicles from Apple are similar in structure. However, the problem with these vehicles is that for recordings in another region they first have to be transported there. Thus, it is necessary to physically transport the entire Date Recue/Date Received 2021-03-24 - 3 -vehicle there, e.g. by driving it to the place. Depending on the precise location of the new place, transport by ferry or the like is often necessary, too. In addition, depending on the precise construction, these vehicles are in most cases required to be approved or certified by the Technical Inspection Authority (TOV) as the...
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