CN114506755A - Device and method for calling action control of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a high-reliability elevator calling action control device and method by giving priority to the preceding action of the continuous action and preventing the operation of the subsequent action. Among them, the elevator call action control device processes the call signal from the call registration device installed on the landing floor, and is characterized in that: the call registration device can generate an upward or downward direction call signal, and the call The action control device includes a first unit and a second unit, the first unit receives the call signal in the first direction and registers the call in the first direction, and the second unit receives the call in the opposite direction to the first direction in the same floor. When the call signal in the second direction is received, the call registration of the call signal in the second direction is blocked for a certain period of time from the reception of the call signal in the first direction, and the call in the second direction after a certain period of time is allowed. Signal call registration.

Description

Device and method for elevator calling action control

technical field

The present invention relates to an elevator call action control device and method, in particular to an elevator call action control device and method using a motion sensor.

Background technique

In recent years, the use of various optical sensors for elevator hall management has been proposed. For example, according to Patent Document 1, a plurality of pinhole cameras are used to detect the movement of an elevator user at a hall, for example, to detect whether or not there is an intention to operate any one of the plurality of buttons of the call registration device according to the movement of the palm, for example, Select the button and make it active.

prior art literature

Patent Literature

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent No. 6172369

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The problem to be solved by the invention

Optical sensors that detect movements of an operator's palm or the like, such as a plurality of pinhole cameras exemplified in Patent Document 1, are generally referred to as motion sensors. In addition, in the case of Patent Document 1, the motion sensor is installed on the ceiling, and only the buttons of the call registration device to be operated are selectively displayed.

On the other hand, in the present invention, it is assumed that a motion sensor is embedded in the call registration device and integrated. By using the motion sensor in this way, the up-down direction of the elevator can be specified without touching the button of the call registration device installed in the hall.

However, although the upward direction can be notified to the motion sensor and detected by, for example, waving the palm upward, in general, the natural movement of the operator is to lower the entire arm instead of the palm after that. This operation is considered to indicate the descending direction after the detection of the upward direction on the side of the motion sensor. In addition, if the operation of returning the palm to the original position is continued after the downward direction is first notified by waving the palm downward, there is a possibility that it may be judged as indicating the upward direction.

The above problem means that the operator's unconscious, natural and continuous actions may cause malfunctions such as specifying two directions in the call registration of the elevator.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable elevator call operation control device and method by giving priority to the preceding operation of the continuous operation and preventing the operation of the succeeding operation.

Technical solutions for solving problems

According to the above, the present invention is an elevator call operation control device that processes a call signal from a call registration device installed on a hall floor, and is characterized in that the call registration device can generate an upward direction or a The call signal in the downward direction, the call action control device includes a first unit and a second unit, the first unit receives the call signal in the first direction and registers the call in the first direction, and the second unit receives the same floor. When there is a call signal in the second direction opposite to the first direction, the call registration of the call signal in the second direction is blocked for a certain period of time from the reception of the call signal in the first direction, and the call registration of the call signal in the second direction is allowed to pass through a certain period of time. The call registration of the call signal in the second direction after the time.

In addition, the present invention is a method for controlling a call operation of an elevator, which processes a call signal from a call registration device installed on a hall floor, and is characterized by receiving an upward direction or a downward direction generated by the call registration device. the call signal in the first direction is received, and the first process of registering the call in the first direction is performed, and the second process is performed. When a call signal is received, the call registration of the second direction call signal is blocked for a certain period of time from the reception of the first direction call signal, and the call of the second direction call signal after a certain period of time is allowed. register.

In addition, the present invention is a method for controlling the call operation of an elevator, which processes a signal from a motion sensor that generates an upward or downward call signal in response to a user's motion, and is characterized in that: according to the first received The call signal in the first direction is used to register the call in the first direction, and when the call signal in the second direction opposite to the first direction on the same floor is successively received, the call in the first direction is received from the The call registration of the call signal in the second direction is blocked for a certain period of time from the signal, and the call registration of the call signal in the second direction after a certain period of time is allowed.

effect of invention

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a highly reliable elevator call operation control device and method by giving priority to the preceding operation of the continuous operation and preventing the operation of the succeeding operation.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on the middle floor of an elevator hall.

Fig. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on the lowermost floor of an elevator hall.

3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on the uppermost floor of an elevator hall.

4 is a diagram showing an example of a cross-sectional configuration of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on a hall floor of an elevator.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the hall terminal control device 9 and the elevator call operation control device 10 .

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation content of the elevator call operation control device 10 .

Detailed ways

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Example 1]

1 to 3 show a configuration example of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on a hall floor of an elevator. Fig. 1 is a middle floor, Fig. 2 is a lowermost floor, and Fig. 3 is a configuration example of a call registration device of the uppermost floor.

The call registration device 13 on the middle floor shown in FIG. 1 is provided with the motion sensor 12, the upper call button 11U, and the downward call button 11D in this order from the top, and the call registration device on the lowermost floor shown in FIG. 2 13. The motion sensor 12 and the upward call button 11U are arranged in this order from the top, and the uppermost call registration device 13 shown in FIG. 3 has the motion sensor 12 and the downward call button 11D arranged in this order from the top.

Here, the motion sensor 12 optically detects the motion of a person, for example, detects that a part of the body such as the palm moves upward to generate an upward call signal, and detects that a part of the body such as the palm moves downward to generate a downward call signal. . In addition, the present invention is not particularly limited regarding the principle by which the motion sensor 12 recognizes the motion of a person.

In any case, the motion sensor 12 should be installed in the upper position of the call registration device 13 . The reason for this is that, when the motion sensor 12 is located in the middle or lower part, when the operator puts his hand down after pressing the button above the motion sensor 12 , the motion sensor may mistake the motion sensor for an instruction of the descending direction.

Fig. 4 shows an example of a cross-sectional structure of a call registration device with a motion sensor installed on a hall floor of an elevator. The call registration device 13 is arranged on the front side of the wall 20 of the elevator hall floor, and the motion sensor 12, the upward call button 11U, and the downward call button 11D are arranged in this order from the top. Moreover, the hall terminal control apparatus 9 is arrange|positioned at the back side of the wall 20 of the elevator hall floor, and cooperates with the elevator call operation control apparatus 10 mentioned later.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the hall terminal control device 9 and the elevator call operation control device 10 . In this figure, the hall terminal control device 9 receives the call signal Sg1a from the motion sensor 12 of the call registration device 13 or the call signal Sg1b from the hall button 11 (call buttons 11U, 11D), and calls the hall. The signal sg1 is transmitted to the receiver 1 in the elevator call operation control device 10 . In addition, the hall terminal control device 9 receives the button control signal Sg2 from the button control unit 6 in the elevator call operation control device 10, and controls the lighting, blinking, and extinguishing of the hall buttons 11 (call buttons 11U, 11D).

The button operation detection unit 2 in the elevator call operation control device 10 detects on which floor a call has occurred based on the call signal Sg1 received from the reception unit 1 . The permission judgment unit 3 judges whether the call of the detected floor is permitted or not, and if it is not permitted, it is displayed and output via the display command unit 7 on the floor where the call occurred, and the floor where the call occurred is displayed and output. Audio output is performed via the audio guidance processing unit 8 .

In addition, when permitted, the registration determination unit 4 determines the call registration, and the hall floor registration unit 5 performs registration processing for the upper and lower directions of the floor where the call occurred. The button control unit 6 controls the lighting, blinking, and extinguishing of the hall buttons 11 (call buttons 11U, 11D) based on the judgment results of the registration judgment unit 4 and the hall floor registration unit 5 .

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation content of the elevator call operation control device 10 . In the flowchart of FIG. 6 , the first processing step S10 corresponds to the function of the button operation detection unit 2, and judges whether or not an input of a call from an arbitrary floor is detected, and when the input is not detected and the call does not occur (“No” ” side), the judgment is repeated until a call is detected in the same manner, and when an input is detected, the process proceeds to the processing of the processing step S11.

The processing step S11 corresponds to the function of the permission determination unit 3, and determines whether or not the service on the floor (the floor) on which the call is detected can be performed based on predetermined determination information. If the service cannot be performed, the subsequent processing is not performed, and the initial standby state is returned. In addition, at this time, guidance by the display output of the display instruction unit 7 and the audio output of the audio guidance processing unit 8 in FIG. 5 can be performed. When it is possible to perform the service ("Yes" side), it transfers to the process of process step S12. In addition, in the following description, regarding the call signal, the signal generated on the same floor is targeted, and the call generated on a different floor is determined individually for each floor.

Processing step S12 discriminates an upward call and a downward call with respect to the call signal, and if it is an upward call (the "Yes" side), the process proceeds to the processing of processing step S13, and the downward direction In the case of calling ("No" side), the process proceeds to the process of process step S19.

Here, the processing of the processing steps S13 to S16 and the processing of the processing steps S19 to S22 corresponds to the function of the registration determination section 4 . In addition, the processing of processing steps S17 and S23 corresponds to the function of the hall floor registration unit 5 , and the processing of processing steps S18 and S24 corresponds to the function of the button control unit 6 . In addition, the processing of the processing steps S13 to S18 is a judgment processing of an upward call, and the processing of the processing steps S19 to S24 is a judgment processing of a downward call.

Hereinafter, the function of the registration determination unit 4, which is the main part of the present invention, will be described in detail, and this will describe an example of a single occurrence of a call in the ascending or descending direction, and a call that descends continuously after ascending, or a call in the ascending or descending direction. The case of the continuous occurrence of calls that have ascended continuously after descending is performed. Among them, the single occurrence is the case where only one of the hall buttons 11 (call buttons 11U, 11D) is pressed, or the motion sensor 12 only responds to the initial motion of ascending or descending, and does not detect continuous secondary motions The case of continuous occurrence is the case where the motion sensor 12 responds to the initial motion with respect to the ascent or descent, and also detects the continuous secondary motion. In addition, it can also be regarded as a continuous occurrence case in which a plurality of people on the same floor have performed upward and downward calling operations in a short period of time, respectively.

In the case of a single case, the processing of either of processing steps S13 and S19 is performed according to the direction of ascending or descending. Here, the upward direction will be described, but the downward direction is also basically the same, so only the differences will be described, and overlapping descriptions will be omitted.

In this case, since it is a call in the ascending direction, the confirmation of "whether a call in the up and down direction has been registered" in the processing step S13 is not registered (indicating that the second call is not consecutive) , so the process proceeds to the "NO" side processing step S15. In addition, the processing step S19 corresponding to the descending case is exactly the same as the processing step S13.

In processing step S15, it is processing concerning the flag of the descending direction in a series of confirmation processing in the upward direction. Similarly, in the downward direction processing step S22 corresponding to the processing step S16, the flag in the upward direction is related to a series of confirmation processing in the downward direction. This means that when registering a call in the ascending direction, the state of "not allowed to register a descending call" is set in the descending direction for a certain period of time.

The purpose of this processing is to lock the secondary action (here, fall) opposite to the primary action (here, rise) in the case of continuous occurrence, so as not to respond to the secondary action, and after a period corresponding to the occurrence period of the secondary action has elapsed It will be released after about 0.5 seconds. In any case, in this scenario illustrating a single case, only such processing is performed and is not directly affected.

In the process of the process step S16, the flag information which is set as "registration of an upward call is not permitted" in the initial state is set to "cancel the registration of an upward call not permitted". Thereby, it is shown that after the condition is satisfied, it is set as a state in which the upward call registration can be performed. In addition, the processing step S20 corresponding to the descending case is the same as the processing step S14, but is different in that it is the processing in the downward direction. In addition, when the car is assigned to the floor and the operation in the designated direction is started, the flag is returned to the initial state, and a response such as "not allowed to register an upward call" is performed.

In the process step S16, only after the condition is satisfied, it is set to a state in which the upward call registration can be performed. Instead of registering an upward call, the process of registering an upward call can be performed only in the subsequent processing step S17, and in the present invention, the processing of the processing steps S15 and S16 is performed before this.

In the process of the process step S17, "upward call registration" is performed, whereby in the process of the process step S18, the upward call button 11U is turned on.

As can be seen from the above, in the single occurrence case, the series of processing steps S13 to S18 in the ascending direction or the series of processing steps S19 to S24 in the descending direction are sequentially performed and ended. However, in the processing of the single occurrence case, the processing of processing steps S14 and S20 is not performed. This process is performed in the case of continuous occurrence.

In the case of continuous occurrence of cases, it is assumed that a series of processing steps S13 to S18 corresponding to one operation (here, rising) are performed as a premise for the description, and the process step Within a certain period of time in the "Call" state, a secondary action (here, descent) is detected.

From the above description, it is understood that the processing performed in a series of processing steps S13 to S18 corresponding to one operation (here up) is understood. Therefore, in the following, for the processing step S15 performed after passing, the setting of "Do not allow registration of downbound calls" is set. The response at the time of the secondary operation (here, falling) within a certain period of the state will be described.

The processing of the call signal generated by the secondary movement in the descending direction is performed in processing step S19 through processing steps S10 to S12. The confirmation of "whether a call in any of the upward directions has been registered" in the processing step S13, because this state has been performed through a series of processing steps S13 to S18 corresponding to one action (here, ascending) Since the processing is completed, it becomes the "Yes" side, and the process proceeds to the processing step S20.

In the process of process step S20, it is checked whether or not the call can be registered. Specifically, it is checked whether or not the flag "doesn't allow registration of downbound calls", and in the case of "doesn't allow registration of downbound calls", whether or not a certain period of time has elapsed in the disallowed state. If it is not "Registration of down-bound calls is not allowed", or "Registration of down-bound calls is not permitted" and the time limit counted in step S15 has elapsed for a certain period of time, it is determined that the call can be registered, and the transfer to Step S22. In step S14 in the case of the upward direction, it is checked whether the flag is "not allowed to register the upward direction call", and in the case of "not allowed to register the upward direction call" whether or not a certain period of time has elapsed from the disallowed state. When it is not "registration of upward call is not allowed", or "upward call registration is not allowed" and the time limit counted in step S21 has elapsed for a certain period of time, it is determined that the call can be registered, and the transfer to Step S16.

In this state, the process of the process step S16 in the case of one operation (here, ascending) becomes "the registration of the down call is not permitted". And the certain time set in process step S15 has not passed. In the process of the process step S20 in this state, the "NO" side is selected, and the subsequent processes in the descending direction are not executed. Therefore, since the process of step S23 of the process step S23 for executing the registration of the downward call is not performed, the registration of the call at the time of the second operation is prevented as a result.

On the other hand, it is assumed that a call registration in the downward direction has occurred after a certain period of time. This call is not to be blocked in the secondary action, but is, for example, a downward call made by other users on the same floor. At this time, with regard to the confirmation of "whether a call in either the vertical direction has been registered" in the processing step S19, the "Yes" side is selected and the process proceeds to the processing step S20, and the registration becomes possible after a certain period of time has passed. Since the state of the call is made, the process shifts to the "Yes" side processing step S21.

The content of the processing after the processing step S21 is the same as the processing of the processing steps S16 to S18 for the upward direction, and the description is omitted.

As described in detail above, the present invention can not respond to the continuous secondary movement of a person when a call in the vertical direction is generated by the motion sensor.

Description of reference numerals

1: Receiving Department

2: Button operation detection section

3: Permission Judgment Department

4: Registration Judgment Department

5: Floor Registration Department

6: Button control part

7: Display the command section

8: Sound Guidance Processing Section

9: Terminal terminal control device

10: Elevator call action control device

11U: Upward call button

11D: Downward call button

12: Motion Sensor

13: Call registration device

20: The walls of the elevator landing floor.

Claims (6)

1. A call operation control device for an elevator, which processes a call signal from a call registration device provided on a landing floor, characterized in that:

the call registration device is capable of generating call signals in an up or down direction,

the call operation control device includes a first means for receiving a call signal in a first direction and registering a call in the first direction, and a second means for preventing the call registration of the call signal in a second direction for a predetermined time from the reception of the call signal in the first direction and allowing the call registration of the call signal in the second direction after the elapse of the predetermined time, when receiving a call signal in the second direction opposite to the first direction on the same floor.

2. Call operation control device for elevator according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the call registration device includes a button for generating a call signal in an upward direction or a downward direction and an operation sensor for generating a call signal in an upward direction or a downward direction in response to an operation of a user.

3. Call operation control device for elevator according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the first means has a function of registering an upward call by receiving an upward call signal and a function of registering a downward call by receiving a downward call signal,

the second means has a function of performing processing when a call signal in a downward direction is received in the state of call registration in the upward direction on the same floor, and a function of performing processing when a call signal in an upward direction is received in the state of call registration in the downward direction on the same floor.

4. Call operation control device for elevator according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the first means generates a flag for preventing call registration in the second direction for a certain time period when receiving a call signal in the first direction,

the second means determines call registration of a call signal in the second direction with reference to the content of the flag in the second direction when receiving the call signal in the second direction.

5. A call operation control method for an elevator, which processes a call signal from a call registration device provided on a landing floor, characterized by:

receives a call signal in the up direction or the down direction generated by the call registering device,

performing a first process of receiving a call signal in a first direction to register a call in the first direction,

and executing a second process of, when a call signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction on the same floor is received, preventing call registration of the call signal in the second direction for a certain time period from the reception of the call signal in the first direction, and allowing call registration of the call signal in the second direction after the elapse of the certain time period.

6. A method for controlling a call operation of an elevator, which processes a signal from an operation sensor that generates a call signal in an upward direction or a downward direction in response to an operation of a user, characterized in that:

the method includes registering a call in a first direction according to a call signal in the first direction received first, and when a call signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction on the same floor is continuously received, preventing the call registration of the call signal in the second direction for a certain time from the reception of the call signal in the first direction, and allowing the call registration of the call signal in the second direction after the elapse of the certain time.

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