JP5679006B2 - Accepting device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a receiving device used for elevator stop floor control and the like.

  Patent Document 1 discloses a system for verifying security or transporting a person using a lift facility.

  That is, as a first form, an authentication code for identifying a person is generated by collation of a fingerprint or the like in a portable authentication device, and the authentication code is transmitted to a recognition device fixed to an elevator facility. The collation device connected to the recognition device collates with the data of the registered person, and if the collation is performed, obtains a destination set in advance for the person. Next, the collation device collates with the registered data whether the person is permitted for the destination, and if the person is collated, transports to the destination.

  As a second form, an authentication code for identifying a person is generated by collation of a fingerprint or the like in a portable authentication device, and the authentication code is transmitted to a recognition device fixed to the elevator facility, and a destination is input. The collation device connected to the recognition device collates with the data of the registered person, and if it is collated, the person is checked against the registration data to see if the person is authorized for the destination. Transport to the destination.

  On the other hand, Patent Document 2 discloses a mobile phone that allows a user of a mobile phone to register a frequently used mobile phone function in the mobile phone and operate the registered function with a simple operation. Yes. In other words, a fingerprint authentication sensor is provided, the fingerprints of a plurality of fingers recognized by the fingerprint authentication sensor are registered in association with specific functions, and the functions associated with the fingerprint collated fingers are executed.

  Patent Document 3 discloses an information processing apparatus that realizes more comfortable mouse emulation using a touch panel and allows a user to input a touch panel with a more natural feeling of use. That is, a plurality of designated positions on the touch panel are detected by a sensor, a plurality of designated positions, each predetermined information is recognized, the recognized predetermined information (corresponding to each designated position or sensor) and an input signal (option) I try to make it correspond.

  Patent Document 4 discloses an apparatus for inputting text by operating a numeric key block for an electronic device. That is, after each key of the key block, a sensor for measuring the position of the user's finger on the key is provided, and this position (sensor output) is evaluated and this position is assigned to possible input options. ing.

JP 2004-352502 A JP 2005-268951 A JP 2002-55781 A JP 2005-527018 A

  The first form of Patent Document 1 described above has a problem that the destination cannot be selected by the user at the time of use because the destination is preset for each user. Further, in the second mode, the user needs a two-step operation of collating fingerprints and inputting a movement destination, and there is a problem that the operation is complicated.

  On the other hand, in Patent Document 2, there is a problem that one finger can select only one kind of motion and cannot be used for general-purpose motion instructions.

  Further, Patent Documents 3 and 4 have a problem in that they cannot be used for operation instructions that require security because the likelihood of selection is not determined at the time of selection.

  In view of the above-described conventional problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a receiving device that can flexibly receive designation of an elevator stop floor.

In one embodiment of this receiving apparatus, in the receiving apparatus that receives designation of a stop floor of an elevator, a memory that stores user management information that associates the user's biometric information and the user's stoppable floor for each user. And biometric information acquired by at least one biometric authentication sensor and the second biometric information associated with the biometric authentication sensor that acquired the biometric information is stored in the user management information as a stoppable floor A determination unit that compares information and determines whether or not there is a user that satisfies a predetermined condition; and there is a user that satisfies a predetermined condition by the determination unit; If the stop designation of the first floor different from the second floor is received before the stop designation of the second floor, the stop designation to the first floor is designated as the stop of the second floor. Perform control to correct to specified And a control hand unit.

Preferably, in the reception method for accepting designation of a stop floor of an elevator , at least one biometric authentication sensor is stored for each user, the user management information associating the user's biometric information with the stoppable floor of the user. And the biometric information of the user stored in the user management information with the second floor associated with the biometric sensor acquiring the biometric information as the stoppable floor, and a predetermined condition It is determined whether or not there is a user who satisfies the condition. According to the determination, there is a user who satisfies a predetermined condition, and the user can connect the second floor before the stop of the second floor is specified. When a stop designation for a different first floor is received, the designation for a stop to the first floor is corrected to a designation for a stop to the second floor .

  In the receiving device of the disclosure, it is possible to flexibly receive the designation of the elevator floor.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of one Embodiment which applied this invention to the elevator stop floor control. FIG. 3 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating an example of an operation panel. FIG. 10 is a second diagram illustrating an example of an operation panel. FIG. 10 is a third diagram illustrating an example of an operation panel. It is a figure which shows the example of a capture in the case of area division. It is a figure which shows the example of the various information hold | maintained at a registration information storage part. It is a figure which shows the example of the various information hold | maintained at the data holding part of a floor number and a floor number designated person confirmation part. It is a flowchart (the 1) which shows the process example of embodiment. It is a flowchart (the 2) which shows the process example of embodiment.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.

<Configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to elevator stop floor control. That is, this is an example applied to an elevator in which only a specific person can designate a stop on a predetermined floor. Needless to say, the application target of the present invention is not limited to an elevator.

  In FIG. 1, the management room 1 is provided with a biological information acquisition sensor 11, an input unit 12, a user information registration unit 13, and a registration information storage unit 14.

  The biometric information acquisition sensor 11 is a device that acquires bioinformation for pre-registration used at the time of collation. As biometric information, various information such as fingerprints and palm vein patterns can be used.

  The input unit 12 is a device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and is used for inputting and registering a user's name, a stoppable floor, and the like.

  The user information registration unit 13 is a part that registers user information with respect to the registration information storage unit 14 based on the biometric information input from the biometric information acquisition sensor 11 and the information input from the input unit 12. .

  The registered information storage unit 14 is an information recording medium such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive). Registration information includes button management information 141, user management information 142, and button selectable person management information 143. Each data item will be described later. The button selectable person management information 143 is a combination of the button management information 141 and the user management information 142, and is provided to make the subsequent processing more efficient, but may be omitted.

  The input unit 12, the user information registration unit 13, and the registration information storage unit 14 can be realized by a PC (Personal Computer) or the like.

  In the elevator car 2, there is provided an operation panel 21 on which a user inputs a stop floor and the like. The operation panel 21 is provided with biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2,..., Normal buttons 23 # 1, 23 # 2,.

  The biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2,... Also serve as buttons by the biometric sensor.

  The normal buttons 23 # 1, 23 # 2,... Are mechanical or electrostatic switches. When all the buttons on the operation panel 21 are realized by the biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2,..., The normal buttons 23 # 1, 23 # 2,.

  The stop floor number display unit 24 displays the selected stop floor, and is realized by a lamp or the like provided around or near the button. The floor number of the selected stop floor may be displayed as a number.

  The floor number / floor number assigner confirmation unit 3 is a part that performs a main control operation for reception of a stop floor, and may be provided in the elevator car 2 or provided outside.

  The floor number / floor number assigner confirmation unit 3 includes a capture data acquisition unit 31, a biometric information detection unit 32, a biometric information collation unit 33, a selected floor determination unit 34, and a data holding unit 35, and biometric authentication of the operation panel 21. Signals are input from the sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2, .. and the normal buttons 23 # 1, 23 # 2,..., And control signals are output to the stop floor number display unit 24 and the elevator operation control unit 4. . The elevator operation control unit 4 controls the raising / lowering of the elevator car 2 and the opening / closing of the door.

  The capture data acquisition unit 31 has a function of acquiring capture data such as a fingerprint image and a palm vein image from the biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2,.

  The biometric information detection unit 32 has a function of detecting biometric information used for verification from the capture data acquired by the capture data acquisition unit 31. Note that when the capture data acquisition and the biometric information detection are performed within the biometric authentication sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2,..., The capture data acquisition unit 31 and the biometric information detection unit 32 may be omitted. it can.

  The biometric information collating unit 33 has a function of comparing and collating biometric information detected by the biometric information detecting unit 32 with biometric information registered in advance.

  The selection floor determination unit 34 has a function of determining the selection floor from the collation result of the biometric information collation unit 33 or the selection contents of the normal buttons 23 # 1, 23 # 2,.

  The data holding unit 35 holds information necessary for processing, and the holding information includes button state information 351, user selection state information 352, and user biometric information 353. Each data item will be described later. Note that the user biometric information 353 can be omitted when biometric information is acquired from the user management information 142 of the registered information storage unit 14 each time collation is performed.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the operation panel 21. In this example, all the buttons for designating the floor on the operation panel 21 are realized by the biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1 to 22 # 8.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing another example of the operation panel 21. In this example, buttons corresponding to floors that require user authentication are realized by the biometric sensor buttons 22 # 11, 22 # 12, and 22 # 30, and buttons that correspond to floors that do not particularly require user authentication. Is realized by the normal buttons 23 # 1 to 23 # 10, 23 # 13 to 23 # 23,. For example, when a floor that can be specified only by VIP (Very Important Person) is included in part, only the button that specifies that floor is a biometric sensor button.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating another example of the operation panel 21. In this example, the sensing area of one biometric sensor component is divided into a plurality of buttons. That is, the sensor surface of the biometric authentication sensor component on the right side is divided into four areas to be biometric sensor buttons 22 # 1, 22 # 2, 22 # 5, and 22 # 6. Are divided into four areas to be biometric sensor buttons 22 # 3, 22 # 4, 22 # 7, and 22 # 8. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a capture example in the case of such area division (when a palm vein authentication sensor is used). The captured biometric image is divided into four, and each biometric image is biometric authentication sensor button 22 #. By handling as input images of 1, 22 # 2, 22 # 5, and 22 # 6, each can be operated in the same manner as when each is an individual biometric sensor. Note that the number of divisions is not limited to four, and can be set to an arbitrary number of divisions in consideration of the size of the biometric sensor component.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of various types of information held in the registration information storage unit 14.

  (A) shows an example of the button management information 141, the “button number” for specifying the position on the operation panel 21 of the biometric sensor button 22 (22 # 1, 22 # 2,...) It has an “action” item indicating the moving floor when the button is selected.

  (B) shows an example of the user management information 142. The “user” that identifies the user, the “biological information” that is the biometric information of the user, and the user can be permitted to stop. It has an item “Stoppable Floor” indicating the floor.

  (C) shows an example of the button selectable person management information 143. The “button number” for specifying the position of the biometric sensor button 22 on the operation panel 21 and the moving floor when the button is selected are shown. "Action" indicating "and" Selectable person "indicating a user who can select the moving floor. The button selectable person management information 143 can be generated by organizing the user management information 142 in (b) for each stoppable floor and combining it with the button management information 141 in (a). Although the amount of information does not exceed the button management information 141 of (a) and the user management information 142 of (b), the button state information 351 in the floor number / floor number designator confirmation unit 3 described later is generated. It is provided to simplify the processing above. Accordingly, when the button state information 351 is generated from the button management information 141 (a) and the user management information 142 (b) on the floor number / floor number assigner confirmation unit 3 side, the button selectable person management information It is not necessary to prepare 143 in advance.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing examples of various information held in the data holding unit 35 of the floor number / floor number assigner confirmation unit 3.

  (A) shows an example of the button state information 351, “button number” for specifying the position of the biometric sensor button 22 on the operation panel 21 and “moving floor when the button is selected”. “Action”, “Selectable person” indicating a user who can select the moving floor, and “Status” indicating the authentication state of the button. The item “status” is added to the button selectable person management information 143 shown in FIG. Therefore, when the button selectable person management information 143 can be acquired, the initial data of the button state information 351 can be generated simply by adding the item “state”. If the button selectable person management information 143 cannot be acquired, it can be generated from the button management information 141 and the user management information 142.

  (B) shows an example of the user selection status information 352, which includes “user” for specifying the user and “status” indicating the button selection status of the user.

  (C) has shown the example of the user biometric information 353, and has the item of "the user" who specifies a user, and "the biometric information" which is the biometric information of the said user. As described above, the user biometric information 353 can be omitted when the biometric information is acquired from the user management information 142 of the registered information storage unit 14 each time collation is performed.

<Operation>
In FIG. 1, as a pre-registration operation, the biometric information acquisition sensor 11, the input unit 12, and the user information registration unit 13 are used, and a user who is permitted to stop the elevator on a specific floor (s) The next item is registered in the user management information 142 (FIG. 6B) in the registration information storage unit 14.
-The biometric information of the user-The floor number that the user can stop The operation during use will be described below.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing example of the above-described embodiment, which is processing when the user gets into the elevator car 2 and operates the operation panel 21.

  In FIG. 8, the biometric sensor button 22 is detected by the biometric information when the capture data acquisition unit 31 is controlled or when a touch of a finger or palm is sensed periodically or by a unique function of the biometric sensor button 22. (Original information) is captured (step S11). Specifically, a fingerprint of a finger placed on the sensor surface or a vein pattern of a palm held over the sensor is acquired as an image. This process is performed for all the biometric sensor buttons 22 respectively.

  Next, biometric information representing a feature amount used for collation is detected from the captured biometric information (original information) by the control of the biometric information detection unit 32 or by the unique function of the biometric authentication sensor button 22 (step S12).

  Next, the biometric information matching unit 33 determines whether biometric information is detected from at least one biometric sensor button 22 (step S13), and biometric information is not detected from one of the biometric sensor buttons 22. (NO in step S13) returns to capturing biometric information (original information) (step S11).

  When biometric information is detected from at least one biometric authentication sensor / button 22 (YES in step S13), the biometric information matching unit 33 uses the detected biometric information as biometric authentication in which the biometric information of the button state information 351 is detected. The biometric information of the selectable person corresponding to the button number of the sensor button 22 is collated (step S14). The result of collation is output as the similarity. The biometric information of the selectable person is acquired from the user biometric information 353 of the data holding unit 35 or the user management information 142 of the registered information storage unit 14.

  Next, the selected floor determination unit 34 has the highest similarity (best match), that is, the collation result for the biometric information obtained from one biometric sensor button 22, and the plural biometric sensor buttons 22. As for the collation result of the biometric information obtained from the above, it is determined whether or not the highest similarity among them is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold (step S15). If it is not equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold (NO in step S15), the process returns to capturing biometric information (original information) (step S11).

  If it is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold (YES in step S15), the selected floor determination unit 34 sets the action corresponding to the button number of the biometric sensor button 22 for which the best-match biometric information is obtained as the button state information 351. And determined as the selected floor (step S16).

  As shown in FIG. 3, when the normal buttons 23 (23 # 1, 23 # 2,...) Are mixed on the operation panel 21, the selection floor determination unit 34 selects the normal button 23 with priority. Determine the floor.

  In parallel with the above reception of the destination floor, the door of the elevator car 2 is closed by the elevator operation control unit 4. If the user's destination floor is determined when the door is closed, the elevator operation control unit 4 moves to that floor. If the user's destination floor has not been determined, reception of the destination floor is continued.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating another example of processing according to the embodiment, in which a floor once selected can be changed.

  In FIG. 9, the biometric sensor button 22 detects biometric information when it senses periodic or finger or palm contact, etc., under the control of the capture data acquisition unit 31 or the unique function of the biometric sensor button 22. (Original information) is captured (step S21). Specifically, a fingerprint of a finger placed on the sensor surface or a vein pattern of a palm held over the sensor is acquired as an image. This process is performed for all the biometric sensor buttons 22 respectively.

  Next, the biometric information representing the feature quantity used for the collation is detected from the captured biometric information (original information) by the control of the biometric information detection unit 32 or by the unique function of the biometric sensor button 22 (step S22).

  Next, the biometric information matching unit 33 determines whether biometric information is detected from at least one biometric sensor button 22 (step S23), and biometric information is not detected from one of the biometric sensor buttons 22. (NO in step S23) returns to capturing biometric information (original information) (step S21).

  When biometric information is detected from at least one biometric sensor / button 22 (YES in step S23), the biometric information matching unit 33 uses the detected biometric information as biometric authentication in which the biometric information of the button state information 351 is detected. The biometric information of the selectable person corresponding to the button number of the sensor button 22 is collated (step S24). The result of collation is output as the similarity. The biometric information of the selectable person is acquired from the user biometric information 353 of the data holding unit 35 or the user management information 142 of the registered information storage unit 14.

  Next, the selected floor determination unit 34 has the highest similarity (best match), that is, the collation result for the biometric information obtained from one biometric sensor button 22, and the plural biometric sensor buttons 22. As for the collation result of the biometric information obtained from the above, it is determined whether or not the highest similarity among them is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold (step S25). If it is not equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value (NO in step S25), the process returns to capturing biometric information (original information) (step S21).

  If it is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold (YES in step S25), the selected floor determination unit 34 refers to the user selection state information 352 for the user who has the best match, and another button has already been selected. It is determined whether or not there is (step S26).

  If another button has already been selected (YES in step S26), the selection floor determination unit 34 discards the selection already made (step S27), and the biometric sensor button 22 from which the best-match biometric information has been obtained. The action corresponding to the button number is acquired from the button state information 351 and determined as the selected floor (step S28).

  If no other button has already been selected (NO in step S26), the action corresponding to the button number of the biometric sensor button 22 for which the best match biometric information is obtained is obtained from the button state information 351, and the selected floor is selected. (Step S28).

  As shown in FIG. 3, when the normal buttons 23 (23 # 1, 23 # 2,...) Are mixed on the operation panel 21, the selection floor determination unit 34 selects the normal button 23 with priority. Determine the floor.

  In parallel with the above reception of the destination floor, the door of the elevator car 2 is closed by the elevator operation control unit 4. If the user's destination floor is determined when the door is closed, the elevator operation control unit 4 moves to that floor. If the user's destination floor has not been determined, reception of the destination floor is continued. Once the destination floor is decided, the reception of the destination floor is continued until the destination floor is reached. When the change of the destination floor is instructed while the door is closed and while the door is moving to the destination floor, the destination floor is changed. That is, when the same user sequentially matches the biometric information with the registered information in a plurality of biometric sensor buttons 22, the floor number of the biometric sensor button 22 that acquired the biometric information that was last checked is the user's floor number. The floor number you want to stop. Thereby, when a user instruct | indicates a destination floor accidentally, a destination floor can be corrected easily.

<Summary>
As described above, according to the present embodiment, there are the following advantages.
(1) The user can be confirmed and the operation instruction can be received by one operation of the user.
(2) Acceptance of correction of an operation instruction can be realized by one operation.

  The present invention has been described above by the preferred embodiments of the present invention. While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims. Obviously you can. In other words, the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the details of the specific examples and the accompanying drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Management room 11 Biometric information acquisition sensor 12 Input part 13 User information registration part 14 Registration information storage part 141 Button management information 142 User management information 143 Button selectable person management information 2 Elevator basket 21 Operation panel 22 Biometric sensor Button 23 Normal button 24 Stop floor number display section 3 Floor number / floor number assigner confirmation section 31 Capture data acquisition section 32 Biometric information detection section 33 Biometric information collation section 34 Selected floor determination section 35 Data holding section 351 Button state information 352 Use User selection state information 353 User biometric information 4 Elevator operation control unit

Claims (5)

In the receiving device that accepts designation of the elevator floor,
A storage unit for storing user management information in which the biometric information of the user and the user's stoppable floor are associated with each other;
Biometric information acquired by at least one biometric sensor and biometric information of the user stored in the user management information as a second floor associated with the biometric sensor that acquired the biometric information as a stoppable floor A determination unit that compares and determines whether there is a user who satisfies a predetermined condition;
There is a user who satisfies a predetermined condition by the determination unit, and the user has received a first floor stop designation different from the second floor prior to the second floor stop designation. And a control hand unit for performing a control to correct the designation of the stop to the first floor to the designation of the stop to the second floor . The accepting device according to claim 1,
The biometric authentication sensor is a palm vein authentication sensor that captures a palm vein image.
A receiving device characterized by that. In the reception apparatus as described in any one of Claim 1 or 2,
The biometric sensor is provided for a button that requires personal authentication among buttons corresponding to the stop floor.
A receiving device characterized by that. In the reception apparatus as described in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
A plurality of biometric sensors are formed by dividing the sensing area of one sensor component into areas.
A receiving device characterized by that. In the accepting method of accepting the designation of the elevator stop floor,
Storing user management information associating the user's biometric information and the user's stoppable floor for each user;
Biometric information acquired by at least one biometric sensor and biometric information of the user stored in the user management information as a second floor associated with the biometric sensor that acquired the biometric information as a stoppable floor Compare to determine whether there is a user who satisfies the specified condition,
According to the determination, there is a user who satisfies a predetermined condition, and the user has received a first floor stop designation different from the second floor before the second floor stop designation. In this case, the reception method is characterized in that the designation of the stop to the first floor is corrected to the designation of the stop to the second floor .