Systems and methods for providing alerts regarding expiration of authorized parking

摘要

A method including receiving image data corresponding to a photograph of a display of parking information including temporal restrictions for authorized parking in a parking location, the photograph captured via a mobile communications device, processing the image data to determine an estimated parking expiration time corresponding to a time when authorization for parking within the parking location will expire, substantially continuously tracking a current location of the mobile communications device and determining an estimated return time corresponding to an estimated time required to travel to the given parking location from the current location of the mobile communications device and, in response to determining that the estimated return time is about equal to or greater than the estimated parking expiration time, providing a parking expiration alert indicative of the estimated return time being determined to be about equal to or greater than the estimated parking expiration time.

主权项

1. A method of providing a parking expiration alert, the method comprising:
receiving image data corresponding to a photograph of a display of parking information comprising temporal restrictions for authorized parking in a parking location, the photograph captured via a mobile communications device; processing the image data to determine an estimated parking expiration time corresponding to a time when authorization for parking within the parking location will expire; substantially continuously tracking a current location of the mobile communications device and determining an estimated return time corresponding to an estimated time required to travel to the given parking location from the current location of the mobile communications device; and in response to determining that the estimated return time is about equal to or greater than the estimated parking expiration time, providing a parking expiration alert indicative of the estimated return time being determined to be about equal to or greater than the estimated parking expiration time, the parking expiration alert configured to be presented via the user interface of the mobile communications device.