Patent ID: 7026954

Claim:
An intelligent parking system for a parking lot comprising a plurality of individual parking spaces, comprising: at least one object detector configured to identify when an object occupies a respective parking space and/or when the respective parking space is unoccupied; at least one processor in communication with the at least one object detector, the at least one processor being configured to automatically identify the location of individual parking spaces that are available and/or the parking spaces that are unavailable to a parking lot patron or potential user based on data obtained from the at least one object detector, and wherein the processor is in communication with an external display that further graphically displays a map illustrating a cluster of available spaces in graphic format of parking spaces in the parking lot and visually contrast the available spaces from the spaces that are unavailable, wherein the processor is configured to generate a textual summary of locations of isolated available spaces, and wherein the processor is configured to communicate with a plurality of individual wireless devices with displays to provide parking patrons and potential patrons the map of the cluster of available and unavailable spaces and the textual summary of locations of isolated spaces that is updated in substantially real time.