JP2006323433A - Attendance management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an attendance management system low in operation and maintenance cost of a facility without imposing a burden on an attendance. <P>SOLUTION: The attendance management system has at least an electronic pen, a receiving terminal, an electronic pen management server, a monitoring camera and a printer connected to the receiving terminal, and a receiving related medium using paper exclusively used for the electronic pen. The electronic pen writes attendance information in the receiving related medium, reads the attendance information and transmits the attendance information to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal receives the attendance information transmitted from the electronic pen and transmits the attendance information to the electronic pen management server. The electronic pen management server converts the received attendance information into text information and transmits it to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal photographs the attendance with the monitoring camera, stores face image information of the attendance and the attendance information in relation to each other in a storage part, prints entrance certificates by the printer, and deletes at least a part of the stored attendance information based on leaving information received from the electronic pen. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an attendee management system, and more particularly to an attendee management system that manages an attendee by using an electronic pen and a monitoring camera at a reception in a building or a factory.

Those who wish to enter when entering business buildings, factories, research facilities, etc., visit the reception and ask for permission to enter.
In the normal reception, the organization name, name, destination department name, name of the person in charge, etc. of the person who wishes to enter are entered and submitted.

Therefore, a technique related to a visitor kiosk terminal that acquires and stores personal information related to a visitor is disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
According to this technique, a kiosk terminal is installed at the entrance of the facility being monitored, and each visitor signs at the kiosk terminal. A business card or a visitor's name and work place and a visitor's face image are acquired. A visitor inputs a visit destination and a visit purpose. The visiting party is notified of the arrival of the visitor by e-mail or voice call. The visitor information is stored locally or remotely, automatically searched, and notified to the visited party. The user can input information related to a planned visitor via the network interface. A telephone interface is provided for inputting voice greetings and checking arrival status of visitors.

JP 2001-109962 A

  In the technique described in Patent Document 1 described above, personal information is collected consciously or unconsciously from a visitor, but there is no description relating to erasure of the collected personal information. Moreover, in order to make a visitor use a wand, a big load is applied to a visitor. In addition, the maintenance cost of equipment is high.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 1 of the visitor management system of the present invention is the attendant management for managing the visitor by using an electronic pen and a monitoring camera at the reception of a building or a factory. A system including at least an electronic pen, a reception terminal, an electronic pen management server, a monitoring camera and a printer connected to the reception terminal, and a reception-related medium using electronic pen dedicated paper, The attendant information is written on the reception-related medium by the writing means, the visitor information is read by the reading means, the attendee information is transmitted to the receiving terminal by the transmitting means, and the receiving terminal is transmitted from the electronic pen by the receiving means. The visitor information is received, the visitor information is transmitted to the electronic pen management server by the transmission means, and the electronic pen management server converts the visitor information received by the conversion means to the text information. The reception terminal captures the visitors by the imaging means of the surveillance camera, stores the face image information of the visitors and the visitor information in association with each other, and stores them in the storage unit. A certificate is printed, and at least a part of the visitor information stored by the exit information received from the electronic pen is deleted.

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the invention according to claim 1, the reception-related medium includes a reception slip and an introduction certificate.

  The invention described in claim 3 is characterized in that, in the invention described in claim 2, the entry / exit information is generated by checking the check column of the reception slip with an electronic pen.

  The invention described in claim 4 is characterized in that, in the invention described in claim 2, the entrance / exit information is generated by checking the check column of the entrance certificate with an electronic pen.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the face card information of the visitor is printed together with the visitor information on the entrance certificate. Is.

1) A visitor management system for managing a visitor by using an electronic pen and a monitoring camera at the reception of a building or a factory as described in claim 1 and includes at least an electronic pen, a reception terminal, an electronic A pen management server, a monitoring camera and printer connected to the reception terminal, and a reception-related medium using paper dedicated to the electronic pen, and the electronic pen writes the visitor information in the reception-related medium by writing means The reading means reads the visitor information, the transmission means transmits the visitor information to the reception terminal, the reception terminal receives the visitor information transmitted from the electronic pen by the reception means, and the transmission means transmits the visitor information. The electronic pen management server converts the visitor information received by the conversion means into text information and transmits the text information to the reception terminal. The visitors were photographed by the imaging means, the face image information of the visitors and the visitor information were stored in association with each other, stored in the storage unit, the entrance certificate printed by the printer, and stored by the exit information received from the electronic pen. By deleting at least a part of the visitor information, a moderate tension is given to the visitors at the time of admission, and at least a part of the collected information is deleted on the same day, thereby making the visitor's privacy illegal. It is never used. In addition, the device used and the medium used are inexpensive.
Furthermore, since the visitor only has to enter the visitor information as usual on the reception form with the electronic pen, there is no burden on the visitor side.
2) In addition, as described in claim 2, in the invention described in claim 1, the reception-related medium includes a reception slip and an introduction certificate, and as described in claims 3 and 4. In addition, in the invention described in claim 2, entrance / exit information is generated by checking the check box of the reception slip or the entrance certificate with an electronic pen, and the degree of freedom in assembling the system is high.
3) Further, as described in claim 5, in the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 4, the face certificate information of the visitor is printed on the entrance certificate together with the visitor information. It is possible to effectively check against those who enter illegally.

The attendee management system of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an apparatus and medium configuration for executing the visitor management system of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of an admission card, and FIG. 3 is an entrance of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the procedure from entry of the receipt management system to the deletion of the visitor information, FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the role of each device and the attendee management procedure, and FIG. 5 is for the electronic pen. FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams for explaining the electronic pen dedicated paper.

With reference to FIG. 1, an apparatus and medium configuration for operating the attendee management system of the present invention will be described.
For reception, an electronic pen 1, a reception terminal 2, an electronic pen management server 3, a printer 4, and a surveillance camera 5 are installed, and a reception slip 7 is prepared.
In the following explanation, the electronic pen 1, the admission certificate 6 and the reception form 7 are the Anotopen 1 developed by "Anoto" in Sweden, and the admission certificate 6 and the reception printed using the Anotopen exclusive format. An example of vote 7 will be described.
Further, the description will be made assuming that the admission information and the face image information of the visitor are combined and displayed on the admission card.

First, at the reception, when a visitor who wishes to enter (hereinafter referred to as a visitor including permitted visitors) visits, the electronic pen 1 and the reception slip 7 are handed to the entrance 8 and the reception slip 7 is electronically transmitted. The pen 1 causes the attendee's organization name or company name, name, visitor name, etc. to be entered.
The receptionist (not shown) checks the description contents of the reception slip 7 and writes a check mark in the check column of the reception slip 7 if there is no problem.
When the check mark is written, the electronic pen 1 transmits the written visitor information to the receiving terminal 2 as stroke coordinate information.
Upon receipt of the stroke coordinate information, the reception terminal 2 transmits the received stroke coordinate information to the electronic pen management server 3. The electronic pen management server 3 converts the coordinate information of the stroke into text information, for example, and sends it back to the reception terminal 2.
In addition, when the reception terminal 2 receives the coordinate information of the stroke, the reception terminal 2 operates the digital monitoring camera 5 to capture the face image of the visitor 8. When taking a picture of a surveillance camera, the position of the surveillance camera is taken into consideration so that there is no tension like when creating an ID card. Furthermore, the surrounding environment is set to such a brightness that it is not necessary to operate a flash or the like.
The operation of the monitoring camera may be automatically performed simultaneously with the reception of the visitor information, or may be performed by a predetermined switch after the person in charge of reception confirms the reception of the visitor information.
The visitor information converted into text information and the face image of the visitor 8 are temporarily stored in a storage unit (not shown) of the connected reception terminal 2.

Here, the electronic pen will be described with reference to FIG.
The electronic pen 1 includes a writing unit 106 with an ink cartridge 108, an imaging unit 105 by a digital camera that reads a dot pattern, a storage unit 103 that stores writing information (stroke coordinate information) read by the digital camera, and a reception terminal. A communication unit 102 that transmits stroke coordinate information, a control unit 104 that controls these functions, and a pressure sensor 107 for an electronic pen are mounted inside the housing 101 of the electronic pen 1.
The electronic pen reads the description information described on the electronic pen dedicated paper and the dot pattern information in the check column by the imaging unit 105 and stores it in the storage unit 103. The electronic pen receives the electronic pen identification information and the like from the communication unit 102. Send to.
The communication unit 102 is compatible with USB (Universal Serial Bus) or Bluetooth.
The writing unit 106 is incorporated in the casing 101 of the electronic pen, and can be used simply as a writing instrument.

The writing unit 106 plays a role of making the distance between the imaging unit 105 and the dot pattern printing surface by the digital camera constant, in addition to the role of leaving the written image in the description unit in a visible state.
When the writing unit 106 is attached to the electronic pen housing 101, the tip on the ink cartridge 108 side comes into contact with the pressure sensor 107 for the electronic pen attached to the electronic pen housing 101.
The pressure sensor 107 has a role of notifying the control unit 104 that information description is started and a role of separately reading the strength of the writing pressure.
For this reason, although not used in the present embodiment, it is possible to grasp characteristics of writing pressure at the time of signature and determine whether the person who has signed is, for example, a registered person. ing.
When checking or filling the remaining amount of the ink cartridge 108, for example, the writing unit 106 is pulled out from the tip of the electronic pen housing 101 to check the remaining amount of ink or to replenish ink.

The electronic pen dedicated paper will be described with reference to FIG.
The electronic pen dedicated paper is paper on which a small electronic pen dedicated dot pattern as shown in FIG. A is printed on the entire surface of the paper (the vertical and horizontal virtual lines shown in FIG. Not actually printed).
Each dot of the electronic pen dedicated dot pattern is placed in one of four different directions near the intersection of vertical and horizontal virtual lines that intersect at right angles formed at intervals of 0.3 mm (recognizable by the electronic pen imaging unit) N) It is printed with colored ink.
FIG. b is an example in which the meaning of each dot of the electronic pen dedicated dot pattern shown in FIG. a is converted into a numerical value for easy understanding.
In the above-mentioned system of Anoto, 36 dots (dot group printed on the inner side of about 4 mm ² ) are handled as one unit information.

  When characters or symbols are written on the electronic pen dedicated paper with the electronic pen, the position of the pen tip is traced, and the dot pattern printed in the vicinity is read by the imaging unit built in the electronic pen. The trajectory of the unit information moved is stored in the storage unit of the electronic pen.

In many cases, the electronic pen management server 3 is divided into a first server (hereinafter referred to as a PLS server) and a second server (hereinafter referred to as an ASH server).
The PLS server and the ASH server are generally independent servers managed separately, but the PLS server and the ASH server can also exist in the same server.
One application is managed so that the same dot pattern does not exist, and the dot pattern information on the dedicated paper transmitted from the receiving terminal 2 is first sent to a server called PLS (Paper Look-up Service). Sent.
The PLS server calculates the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the ASH (Application Service Handler) server that supports the application used from the received dot pattern information on the dedicated paper, and returns the URL of the ASH server to the receiving terminal 2 .
The reception terminal transmits the stroke coordinate information to the URL of the ASH server.

The reception terminal 2 is a personal computer, PDA (Personal Digital Assistance), or other device having a communication function, and if there is a higher model behind, it can be substituted by a mobile phone or the like.
The reception terminal 2 receives the visitor information based on the coordinate information of the stroke transmitted from the electronic pen 1, the dot pattern information in the check column, the electronic pen identification information, and the like through a USB or Bluetooth compatible interface.
The reception terminal 2 transmits the visitor information based on the coordinate data to the URL of the ASH server received from the PLS server.
The ASH server edits the coordinate information of the stroke received from the reception terminal 2 by an application program, converts it into text data or the like, and transmits it to the reception terminal 2.

  The reception terminal 2 edits a part of the visitor information converted into text data or the like by the connected printer 4 and the face image information of the visitor temporarily stored in the storage unit into a print pattern of the entrance certificate 6 And print.

With reference to FIG. 2, an example of an entrance certificate will be described.
The admission card 6 is provided with a visitor information display field for displaying the visitor information 63 and check fields 61 and 62 for writing a check mark when entering and leaving. In addition, a design and other designs are printed so that it can be seen as an admission card.
The visitor information 63 includes an admission number “No. 55”, date information “May 25, 2005”, and the name of the company that issued the admission “ABC Corporation XX "Office" is printed.
In the check column 61, for example, a code indicating that the user has entered is printed with dots. When a check mark is entered at the reception, the issue time is added to the visitor information described in the reception slip, and the reception terminal Stored.
In addition, a check mark is entered in the check field 62 when the admission card 6 is returned, so that the time of exit can be confirmed when the place of entry and the place of exit are different. .

Although not shown, an entry / exit check column is also provided in the reception slip and can be used properly depending on the usage environment.
When the reception terminal receives the exit information from the electronic pen, the reception terminal adds the exit information to the file in which the visitor information and the face image information are stored via the electronic pen management server. Delete only face image information.
In addition, the user side determines which information of the visitor information is left as a history.

With reference to FIG. 3, the procedure from the reception slip description to the deletion of the visitor information in the visitor management system of the present invention will be described.
First, the visitor writes the visitor information on the reception slip (step 1: hereinafter referred to as S1).
The reception side that issues the admission card takes a face image with the surveillance camera (S2). In addition, the receptionist contacts the meeting destination promised by the attendee (S3).
The reception terminal transmits the visitor information and the face image information to the printer, prints the visitor information, and creates an entrance certificate (S4). An admission certificate is issued to the visitors (S5). The admission card can be issued either when a check mark is entered in the check box of the admission card, or when it is checked that it is issued in the check box of the receipt slip.
Visitors will meet with the person in charge. If it is a trader, scheduled work is performed (S6).
The visitor completes the interview or work and returns the admission card (S7).
The reception side receives the admission card (S8).
Part or all of the visitor information is deleted (S9).

With reference to FIG. 4, the role of each apparatus and a visitor management procedure are demonstrated.
First, the electronic pen writes the visitor information on the reception slip (S1). Further, a check mark is written in the admission check column of the reception slip (S2).
The visitor information is transmitted to the reception terminal (S3).
When leaving, a check mark is entered in the exit check column of the admission card or the exit check column of the reception slip (S9).
The exit information is transmitted to the reception terminal (S10).

The role and procedure of the reception terminal, surveillance camera, and printer will be described.
The reception terminal receives the visitor information transmitted from the electronic pen and transmits it to the electronic pen management server (S4). A face image of the visitor is taken with the surveillance camera (S6).
The printer synthesizes the visitor information and the face image information captured by the reception terminal, and outputs them to the admission card (S7). The reception terminal issues an entrance certificate (S8).
When the admission card is returned, the check mark information is received from the electronic pen and transmitted to the electronic pen management server, the edited information is received, and at least a part of the visitor information is deleted (S13). .

  The stroke coordinate information transmitted from the reception terminal is converted into text data or the like by the ASH server of the electronic pen management server and transmitted to the reception terminal (S5, S12).

  It can be used for attendee management at sales buildings and factories of general companies, security companies, and laboratories.

It is a figure for demonstrating the apparatus for performing the visitor management system of this invention, and a medium structure. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of an entrance certificate. It is a figure for demonstrating the procedure from the receipt slip description of a visitor management system of this invention to a visitor information deletion. It is a figure for demonstrating the role of each apparatus, and a visitor management procedure. It is a figure for demonstrating an electronic pen. It is a figure for demonstrating the paper only for an electronic pen.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic pen 2 Reception terminal 3 Electronic pen management server 4 Printer 5 Surveillance camera 6 Entrance certificate 7 Reception slip 8 Visitor 61, 62 Check column 63 Visitor information 101 Case 102 Communication part 103 Storage part 104 Control part 105 Imaging part 106 Writing part 107 Pressure sensor 108 Ink cartridge

Claims (5)

It is an attendee management system that manages visitors by using electronic pens and surveillance cameras at the reception of buildings and factories.
At least an electronic pen, a reception terminal, an electronic pen management server, a monitoring camera and printer connected to the reception terminal, and a reception-related medium using electronic pen dedicated paper,
The electronic pen describes the visitor information on the reception-related medium by the writing means, reads the visitor information by the reading means, transmits the visitor information to the reception terminal by the transmission means,
The reception terminal receives the visitor information transmitted from the electronic pen by the reception unit, transmits the visitor information to the electronic pen management server by the transmission unit,
The electronic pen management server converts the visitor information received by the conversion means into text information and transmits it to the reception terminal,
The reception terminal photographs the visitors by the imaging means of the surveillance camera, stores the face image information of the visitors and the visitor information in association with each other, and prints the entrance certificate by a printer,
Deleting at least part of the visitor information stored by the exit information received from the electronic pen,
Visitor management system characterized by that. In the visitor management system according to claim 1,
An attendee management system characterized in that the reception-related medium includes a reception slip and an entrance certificate. In the visitor management system according to claim 2,
Entry / exit information is generated by checking the check box of the reception slip with an electronic pen. In the visitor management system according to claim 2,
The entrance management system is characterized in that the entrance / exit information is generated by checking the check box of the entrance certificate with an electronic pen. In the attendant management system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
A visitor management system, wherein the entrance certificate is printed with the visitor's face image information together with the visitor information.

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