JP2000128444A - Elevator call registration device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator call registration device capable of giving a ride on an elevator to an imbecile aged person and so on, and of confining him so as to let him hardly get out of the building. SOLUTION: A touch panel 10 and an infra-red sensor are provided for each elevator hall, and when it is determined by the infra-red sensor that users stand up in front of the touch panel 10, an elevator hall button 14 is indicated in the touch panel 10, and after that, this indication position is changed by a specified timing. Call registration is not made before the elevator hall button 14 is accurately operated by users at plural places.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator call registration apparatus, and more particularly, to an elevator call registration apparatus that complicates a call registration procedure so that, for example, a patient in a hospital cannot easily go out of the hospital.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An elevator hall is provided with an elevator hall button for calling an elevator car to its own floor as shown in FIG. This elevator hall button 10
0 includes an up direction call button 102 and a down direction call button 104, and when the waiter presses these buttons, the elevator car currently moving in that direction can be brought to the elevator landing.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional system, since the elevator car can be simply brought to the floor, anyone can easily use the elevator to go out of other floors or outside the building. Can be. For this reason, there is a problem that, for example, an elderly person with dementia in a hospital goes out to another floor or outside a building using an elevator and wanders.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an elevator call registration device capable of complicating call registration and making it difficult to call an elevator car to its own floor. .

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to an elevator call registration apparatus for bringing an elevator car to its own floor, comprising: an elevator hall button provided at an elevator hall; Call registration means for registering a call when the hall button is pressed a plurality of times in a predetermined procedure. In this case, call registration can be complicated, and it is possible to make it difficult to call the elevator car to the floor.

The present invention also relates to an elevator call registration device for calling an elevator car to a floor of the elevator, wherein a touch panel provided at the elevator hall and an elevator hall button are sequentially arranged at predetermined timings at a plurality of locations on the touch panel. It is characterized by including a button display means for displaying, and a call registration means for registering a call when the elevator hall button displayed on the touch panel is touched a plurality of times with predetermined contents.

[0007] This makes it possible to complicate the call registration and make it difficult to call the elevator car to the floor. As a result, it is possible to prevent the elderly with dementia or the like from accidentally going outside the building or to another floor. Further, it is possible to reduce wasteful calls and power consumption of the elevator.

In one aspect of the present invention, the touch panel further includes a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of a person in front of the touch panel, and the button display means displays the elevator hall button when a person is in front of the touch panel. Change the location of In this way, it is possible to prevent the display location of the elevator hall button from being changed unnecessarily, and to prevent the user from being confused.

Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, the information processing apparatus further includes a guide means for guiding a call registration procedure, and the call registration means registers a call when an elevator hall button is pressed according to the guidance. In this aspect, the call registration procedure is guided by voice or text. This can ease the difficulty of call registration for general users. For this reason, it is possible to prevent a general user from erroneously pressing the button or from missing the button.

[0010] Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, the information processing apparatus further includes guide means for guiding a call registration procedure, wherein the call registration means comprises:
When the elevator hall button is pressed in accordance with the guidance, call registration is performed, and the guidance unit guides a display position of the next elevator hall button. In this way, the general user can know the next display location by the guidance, and can perform the call registration more reliably.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an appearance of an elevator call registration device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Also, FIG.
It is a figure showing the elevator hall where the elevator call registration device concerning this embodiment was installed. First, as shown in FIG. 1, the present elevator call registration device includes a touch panel 10, and its display area is divided into four areas 12-1 to 12-4 for use.

An elevator hall button 14 including an up call button 16 and a down call button 18 is displayed in one of these areas 12-1 to 12-4. When the user touches the direction call button 16 or the down direction call button 18, a controller (not shown) can recognize that a call registration is required for one of the up and down directions.

The display area of the elevator hall button 14 is moved to another area at a predetermined timing, for example, after a predetermined time. In the figure, the display position of the elevator hall button is indicated by a dotted line in the area other than the area 12-1.

The touch panel 10 described above is mounted on a wall of an elevator hall 24 as shown in FIG. 2, and an infrared sensor 20 is further mounted thereon. The infrared sensor 20 is for detecting whether or not the user 22 is in front of the touch panel 10 at the elevator hall 24. When the infrared sensor 20 detects that the user is in front of the touch panel 10, The processing for call registration is started by a controller (not shown).

Here, a specific call registration operation of the elevator call registration device will be described with reference to FIG. The figure shows
7 shows a registration procedure when setting a call in an ascending direction using the elevator call registration device.

First, when the user 22 stands in front of the touch panel 10 at the elevator hall 24, the infrared sensor 20 detects its presence and notifies the controller (not shown) of the fact. Then, the controller (not shown) displays the elevator hall button 14 in the upper left area 12-1 of the touch panel. In response to this, the user 22 presses a button in any desired direction up and down. Here, it is assumed that the customer 22 has touched the ascending direction call button 16.

Then, the controller changes the display position of the elevator hall button 14 to the area 12-1 as shown by an arrow A in FIG.
To the area 12-4, and at that position the ascending direction call button 1
6 flashes and a message "Press again" flashes below it.

In response to this, the user 22 returns to the area 12 again.
-4, the controller (not shown) changes the display position of the elevator hall button 14 from the area 12-4 to the area 12-3 as shown by an arrow B in the figure. Then, the ascending direction call button 16 is lit up instead of blinking. Then, the controller (not shown) accepts the call registration in the ascending direction.

This makes it possible to complicate the call registration procedure and prevent the elderly with dementia from inadvertently calling the elevator car to their own floor. In addition, it is possible to reduce unnecessary elevator operation.

The above-described elevator call registration device can be variously modified.

For example, in the elevator call registration device described above, it is certainly difficult for a demented elderly person or the like to make a hall call, but there is a possibility that a general user may also be difficult to make a hall call. Therefore, in order to ease the difficulty of making a call for general users, guidance by voice, text, or the like may be performed. At this time, before the display position of the elevator hall button 14 is changed, if the next display position is guided by voice, text, or the like, the user 22 can operate the elevator hall button 14 more reliably. become.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an appearance of an elevator call registration device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an elevator hall where an elevator call registration device according to an embodiment of the present invention is installed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an operation of the elevator call registration device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a view showing a conventional elevator hall button.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 touch panel, 12 display area, 14 elevator hall button, 16 ascending direction call button, 18 ascending direction call button,
20 infrared sensors, 22 passengers, 24 elevator halls.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An elevator call registration device for bringing an elevator car to a floor of an elevator, comprising: an elevator hall button provided in an elevator hall; and registering a call when the elevator hall button is pressed a plurality of times in a predetermined procedure. An elevator call registration device, comprising: call registration means. 2. An elevator call registration device for calling an elevator car to a floor of an elevator, comprising: a touch panel provided at an elevator hall; and a button display for sequentially displaying an elevator hall button at a plurality of locations on the touch panel at a predetermined timing. Means for registering a call when the elevator hall button displayed on the touch panel is touched a plurality of times with predetermined contents. 3. The elevator call registration device according to claim 2, further comprising a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of a person in front of the touch panel, wherein the button display unit is configured to detect the presence of a person in front of the touch panel. A call registration device, wherein a position of the touch panel for displaying a hall button is changed. 4. The elevator call registration device according to claim 1, further comprising a guide means for guiding a call registration procedure, wherein said call registration means presses an elevator hall button in accordance with said guidance. An elevator call registration device, which performs call registration when a call is made. 5. The elevator call registration device according to claim 2, further comprising: guidance means for guiding a call registration procedure, wherein the call registration means has pressed an elevator hall button in accordance with the guidance. An elevator call registration device, wherein call registration is performed in such a case, and the guidance means guides a display position of a next elevator hall button.