Patent ID: 8279088

Claim:
A parking management system, comprising: an entrance camera ( 100 ) installed at an entrance of a parking lot, and adapted to photograph a vehicle that enters the parking lot; an exit camera ( 200 ) for photographing a vehicle that departs from the parking lot; a plurality of region cameras ( 300 ) installed in respective parking regions in the parking lot, and adapted to photograph a vehicle; a management server ( 400 ) comprising a vehicle license number recognition unit ( 450 ) for recognizing a vehicle license number on the basis of image data photographed by the entrance camera ( 100 ), the exit camera ( 200 ), and the region cameras ( 300 ), a registration unit ( 460 ) for registering a last photographed parking region on a parking ticket, which a driver holds when entering the parking lot, on the basis of a vehicle license number photographed by the region cameras installed in respective parking regions, a control unit ( 440 ) for calculating a number of available parking spaces for each parking region based on a last input vehicle license number for each parking region, and determining a total number of available parking spaces, and a guidance unit ( 470 ) for guiding an entering vehicle to an available parking region determined by the control unit through a parking guidance signal unit; and a display unit ( 350 ) installed at the entrance of the parking lot, and adapted to display the number of available parking spaces received from the control unit.