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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2018
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Thomas G. Hudson, Tonka Bay, MN (US);
Joseph M. Caldwell, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Mark J. Moran, Woodbury, MN (US);
James Conlan, Minneapolis, MN (US);
John J. Leier, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Richard W. Kelley, II, Corcoran, MN (US);
Marcus N. Schmidt, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
A parking enforcement device can be secured to a surface adjacent to the area designated as NO PARKING. The enforcement device can include a camera aimed towards the area designated as NO PARKING and monitor this area for the entry of a vehicle. A parking violation is determined to have occurred upon determining that the vehicle has entered the area designated as NO PARKING, and image data of the entry of a vehicle into the NO PARKING area that was captured by the camera can be relayed to a remote computing system. The parking enforcement device can be provided as a bollard that includes a camera secured to a center pole extending vertically upwards inside of the bollard. The camera can be located along the center pole so that the camera views outward from the bollard via a window section of the bollard.