Patent ID: 6400358
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: G09F,G09G

Abstract:
A portable electronic parking location reminder device for ring displaying the location of a parked vehicle, comprising:a portable housing; user input keys on said housing including keys for entering data representing the identity of a parking lot, a parking level, a parking row, and a geographical direction of said location of said parked vehicle, and for storing and retrieving said entered data; non-volatile memory within said housing for storing said entered data; an electronic LCD display on said housing having a visually distinct parking lot field, a parking level field, a parking row field, and a geographical direction field for displaying said entered data and said retrieved data as a set of letters or numerals in said visually distinct fields; a microcontroller within said housing coupled with said memory, said user input keys, and said display, said microcontroller containing an embedded software program responsive to said user input keys for displaying said entered data as letters and numerals, storing said entered data in said memory, retrieving said stored data, and displaying said stored data on said display as letters and numerals; a battery power supply in said housing for powering said microcontroller, said memory, and said display; at least one said user input key that sequentially displays letters and numerals to be selected by the user in an ascending or descending order and alphabetic geographical direction characters when it is pressed; said letters and numerals representing the identity of the parking lot in which the vehicle is parked, the floor level of a parking facility on which the vehicle is parked, the row of a parking area in which the vehicle is parked, and said alphabetic geographical direction characters representing the geographical direction of the parking area in which the vehicle is parked; and at least one said user input key that enters selected letters, numerals, and alphabetic geographical direction characters in a desired position within respective ones of said fields.