Patent ID: 11875606
Assignee: TKH SECURITY LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of cameras mounted in a parking structure that comprises a plurality of parking spaces, the plurality of cameras arranged in the parking structure such that each camera of the plurality of cameras monitors respective multiple parking spaces of the plurality of parking spaces, wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras monitoring the respective multiple parking spaces of the plurality of parking spaces comprises each camera obtaining a respective first image of the respective multiple parking spaces;
at least one controller operatively coupled to the plurality of cameras, the at least one controller configured to, based on the monitoring of the plurality of parking spaces by the plurality of cameras, track numbers of vacant parking spaces in a plurality of physical areas of the parking structure, wherein the at least one controller tracking numbers of vacant parking spaces comprises the at least one controller:
classifying each respective first image to occupied status or vacant status,
providing each respective first image, that has been classified to vacant status, to a graphical user interface of a human operator, and
receiving a change of status from the human operator for a particular parking space of the plurality of parking spaces from vacant status to occupied status; and

a display device configured to receive, from at least one of the at least one controller, guidance to available parking in the parking structure based on the tracked numbers of vacant parking spaces in the plurality of physical areas of the parking structure, the display device further configured to display the guidance to the available parking.