JP5812752B2 - Intercom device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an intercom apparatus that calls a resident or the like to make a call, and more particularly to an intercom apparatus that has a plurality of call destinations and can be selected and called.

  As a conventional intercom apparatus that includes a plurality of call destinations and that a visitor can select and call, there is an intercom apparatus as shown in Non-Patent Document 1. This is because the interphone handset is provided with a plurality of call buttons with different call destinations, and the visitor can call the selected interphone master unit by pressing the call button associated with the visited place and make a call. it can.

Published by Aiphone Co., Ltd. “2010-2012 General Catalog” p. 476-477

Since the interphone device of Non-Patent Document 1 can be called by selecting a plurality of call destinations with one interphone slave unit, it can be used in tenant buildings where multiple companies are occupying or office buildings that can be called by department. This is a preferred configuration.
However, since any visitor can perform a call operation on all the call destinations, it is possible to set a call destination that a general visitor such as the president's office does not want to call. In such a case, a call can be made by providing a separate reception.

  Therefore, in view of such a problem, the present invention provides an interphone device that provides a function for limiting or expanding a call destination according to a visitor, and allows a visitor to directly call a visit destination without reception or the like. The purpose is that.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention of claim 1 is provided with an intercom handset provided with a call operation unit for calling a visited place and a microphone / speaker for calling, and a microphone / speaker for responding to the call. An interphone device having a plurality of interphone master units, wherein the interphone slave unit has a plurality of call buttons including a touch panel provided on a display capable of displaying an image, and selects one of the plurality of interphone master units. In addition to a microphone / speaker for calling and a certain interphone master unit among a plurality of interphone master units, a call slave unit capable of calling and calling is arranged adjacent to each other. made Te, Yobidashiko machine, the ID information acquisition unit that acquires ID information of the visitor, be stored in association with at least one ID information and a plurality of intercom master unit A call destination storage unit and a call control unit that receives a call operation unit and transmits a call signal to the call destination interphone master unit. The call control unit includes the acquired ID information and the call destination storage unit Only the call button associated with the visitor's ID information can be called based on the information.
According to this configuration, even if there are a plurality of interphone master units that can be called from the interphone slave unit, it is possible to narrow down the interphone master units that a visitor can call based on the personal authentication result of the interphone slave unit. Therefore, for example, when it is recognized as a general visitor, it can be set so that a specific intercom master cannot be called, and when it is recognized as a special visitor, for example, it can be set so that the president's office can be called directly. Therefore, there is no need for separate reception, which is convenient and convenient for both visitors and responders.
Furthermore, since the display and the microphone / speaker are configured separately, the microphone / speaker can be used with a conventional intercom handset equipped with a call button, and the display does not require a call function. A display can be used, and the intercom handset can be configured at low cost.
In addition, even if the number of interphone master units or the name of the call destination changes due to a change in the layout of the call destination floor, etc., it can be easily handled by changing the display on the display, and it is necessary to change the interphone slave unit itself. Therefore, it is possible to flexibly cope with changes in the number of interphone master units.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to the first aspect, the caller cannot obtain a call after receiving the visitor's ID information among a plurality of call buttons provided on the touch panel . It has a display control part which makes a call button non-display on a touch panel.
According to this configuration, since the call destination that cannot be called is not displayed on the touch panel, the visitor is not notified of the call destination that has been disabled.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the second aspect , the interphone base unit is a base unit camera for imaging a responding person, and a video control unit that transmits the captured video of the base unit camera to the interphone slave unit. And the display control unit of the intercom slave unit displays a captured image of the master camera on a display.
According to this configuration, since the video of the person who responds from the interphone master unit of the call destination is displayed on the interphone slave unit, the visitor can easily talk and feel safe. In addition, since the video is displayed using the call operation unit, there is no need to provide a separate display means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the configuration according to the second or third aspect , the intercom master unit stores an guidance image made up of character information for notifying the visitor of the calling status. And a guidance control unit that receives the calling signal and transmits a guidance image to the interphone slave unit, and the display control unit of the interphone slave unit displays the received guidance image on a display.
According to this configuration, since the guidance image is displayed on the interphone slave unit after the call operation, the visitor can recognize the call status with the image and can assure the call status.

  According to the present invention, even if there are a plurality of interphone master units that can be called from the interphone slave unit, the interphone master units that can be called by the visitor are narrowed down according to the personal authentication result of the interphone slave unit. In this case, it can be set so that a specific intercom master cannot be called, and when it is recognized as a special visitor, for example, it can be set so that the president's office can be called directly, which is convenient for both visitors and receptionists.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the intercom apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of calling operation | movement.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments embodying the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an intercom apparatus according to the present invention, wherein 1a is a caller for calling a visited site, 1b is a caller for calling with a partner who has responded to the call, and 3 is a caller. A plurality of interphone master units (hereinafter simply referred to as “master units”) 4 are provided for responding, and 4 is a HUB that collects signal lines of the caller unit 1 a, the caller unit 1 b, and the master unit 3.
The intercom handset 1a and the telephone handset 1b constitute an interphone handset (hereinafter simply referred to as “slave unit”) 1, which are installed adjacent to each other. Further, each of the calling device 1a, the calling device 1b, and the parent device 3 has a unique IP address, and is configured to transmit and receive a data signal, a digital audio signal, and a digital video signal using an IP protocol.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the slave unit 1 and the master unit 3. The calling device 1a selects the parent device 3 to perform a calling operation, an operation unit 11 including a touch panel for a visitor to input an ID, a list screen of call destinations, and a child device display that displays video and images. 12, a call destination storage unit 13 for storing the association between the ID and the call destination, an RFID reading unit 14 for authenticating the visitor by reading the ID information from an IC card carried by the visitor, and the call destination of the call destination from the input ID information A caller CPU 15 and the like for controlling each part of the caller 1a including narrowing down are provided.
The visitor authentication is performed by either ID information input from the operation unit 11 by the visitor or reading by the RFID reading unit 14. The touch panel constituting the operation unit 11 is integrally provided on the slave unit display 12, and the slave unit display 12 displays a plurality of call buttons, numeric keypads for ID input (none of which are shown), and the like. The

  The telephone handset 1b includes a handset camera 17 for capturing an image of a visitor, a microphone 18 and a speaker 19 for making a call with a call destination, a call button 20 for calling a specific base unit 3, and a person who senses a visitor's approach. A sensation sensor 21 and a call slave unit CPU 22 for controlling each circuit of the call slave unit 1b are provided.

  The base unit 3 includes an operation unit 31 for performing a response operation to the call, a microphone 32 and a speaker 33 for calling, a base unit display 34 for displaying captured images of the handset camera 17 and various setting screens. The main unit camera 35 for imaging the responder, the image storage unit 36 for storing a guidance image for displaying the calling status on the sub unit display 12 upon receiving a call from the sub unit 1, and the main unit 3 are controlled. A master CPU 37 is provided.

Hereinafter, an operation when a visitor performs a call operation while approaching the child device 1 will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of operation of the intercom apparatus that has received a call operation, and shows the operation separately for each device. This will be described based on this flow.
When the visitor approaches the handset 1, the human sensor 21 of the handset 1b detects this (S1), and the handset CPU 22 transmits an activation signal to the handset 1a (S2). Upon receiving this activation signal, the calling device 1a displays a guidance screen such as “Please input ID” on the child device display 12 by the calling device CPU 15.

Upon receiving this guidance screen display, the visitor places an IC card (not shown) on a predetermined part of the caller unit 1a, or operates the numeric keypad displayed on the child unit display 12 to input an ID. A visitor's personal authentication is performed (S3).
In addition, the IC card to be tricked at this time may be handed the registered IC card to the visitor in advance, or by reading the ID of the IC card carried by the visitor for other purposes and registering it. You can leave it. Further, when inputting with the numeric keypad, for example, a 4-digit password is notified in advance.

  When the visitor ID information is associated with the callee information in advance and registered in the callee storage unit 13, the input ID or the ID (RFID) read from the IC card or the like is registered. The caller CPU 15 recognizes the call (S4), and a list of call destinations associated with the caller CPU15 is displayed on the child display 12 (S6). For example, when the visitor is authenticated as a special person associated with the president from the ID information, a plurality of call buttons including “president's office” are displayed as touch buttons on the child device display 12.

On the other hand, when the input ID information or the read ID is not registered or registered as a general visitor ID, a list of call destinations for general visitors, for example, “reception”, “general affairs department”, etc. The limited specific call destination is displayed on the handset display 12 (S5). In this case, a special call destination such as “President's office” is not displayed.
In this way, since the call destination that cannot be called is not displayed on the touch panel, the call destination that is not callable to the visitor is not visible and its presence is not known. And since the call button displayed for a general visitor is limited, the situation which is troubled by selection of a call destination can be prevented.

  Calling is also possible without entering an ID. The “No ID” selection button is displayed on the first guidance screen, and when this button is selected, the screen moves to the next screen and only the specified parent device 3 set as in the case of the general visitor can be called. Is displayed (S5). Further, the call can be made without inputting the ID from the call button 20 of the telephone handset 1b, and a call is made to a specific one parent machine 3 set in advance. Since the response operation and the call operation from the base unit 3 that has received this call are the same as those of the conventional intercom apparatus, the description thereof is omitted.

When the visitor selects a visit destination from the call destination list thus displayed on the child device display 12 and performs a touch operation (call operation) (S7), the caller CPU 15 attaches the information of the selected parent device 3. A call signal is transmitted to the telephone handset 1b (S8).
The calling signal is set as a transmission destination by the IP address of the telephone handset 1b, and is transmitted to the telephone handset 1b via the HUB 4.

Upon receiving this call signal (S9), the telephone handset 1b reads the information of the parent machine 3 attached to the call signal by the telephone handset CPU 22, sets the IP address of this parent machine 3 as the transmission destination, and further Send a ringing signal.
Further, the handset CPU 22 makes a call confirmation sound from the speaker 19 and enables the microphone 18 to be active to transmit a voice signal to the base unit 3 (S10). Further, the slave camera 17 is activated, and the video signal of the slave camera 17 is transmitted to the IP address of the selected master device 3 (S11).

The base unit 3 that has received the call signal from the telephone handset 1 b emits a ringing tone from the speaker 33 under the control of the base unit CPU 37. At the same time, the captured image of the handset camera 17 is transmitted from the handset 1b, and this image is displayed on the base display 34 (S12). At this time, if there is an audio signal, an audio report is also performed from the speaker 33.
The calling signal to be transmitted to the base unit 3 may be transmitted directly from the calling unit 1a. In this case, the calling signal is transmitted to the base unit 3 simultaneously with the transmission of the calling signal to the telephone set 1b. Just do it. It can be easily transmitted by setting the IP address of the selected master device 3 as the transmission destination.

  The base unit CPU 37 continues to read out a predetermined image from the image storage unit 36 and transmits it to the calling unit 1a (S13). Upon receiving this image signal, the calling unit 1a receives the image on the slave unit display 12 and displays the image. (S14). In this way, a guidance image made up of character information such as “I am currently calling the General Affairs Department” is displayed on the slave display 12 that has been called. Further, for example, when the callee parent device 3 is transferred to another parent device 3, a guidance image such as “Please wait for a while” is displayed.

After that, when a callee who confirms the visitor by the ringing tone and the visitor video operates the operation unit 31 of the base unit 3 as a response, the microphone 32 and the speaker 33 become active, and the base unit CPU 37 outputs a call path forming signal. Transmit to the handset 1b. At the same time, the base camera 35 starts imaging, and the captured video is transmitted to the caller 1a.
Upon receiving this call path forming signal, the call slave CPU 22 activates the speaker 19 to form a call path with the parent machine 3 and enables a call. In addition, the calling handset 1 a that has received the video signal displays the picked-up video of the base camera 35 on the handset display 12.

As described above, even if a plurality of interphone master units 3 that can be called from the interphone slave unit 1 are provided, the interphone master unit 3 that can be called by a visitor can be narrowed down according to the personal authentication result of the interphone slave unit 1, so that general visitors can When it is recognized, it can be set so that a specific intercom master unit 3 cannot be called, and when it is recognized as a special visitor, for example, it can be set so that the president room can be called directly. This eliminates the need for separate reception, which is convenient and convenient for both visitors and responding personnel.
Further, even if the number of interphone master units 3 or the name of the call destination is changed due to a change in the layout of the call destination floor or the like, it can be easily handled by changing the display on the slave unit display 12, and the interphone slave unit 1 itself Therefore, it is possible to flexibly cope with a change in the number of interphone master units 3 and the like.
Furthermore, since the handset display 12 and the microphone 18 / speaker 19 are configured separately, the microphone 18 / speaker 19 can use a conventional intercom handset provided with a call button 20, and the handset display 12 can be used. Since no call function is required, a general-purpose display can be used, and the entire intercom handset 1 can be configured at low cost.
In addition, since the video of the person responding from the interphone master unit 3 is displayed on the interphone slave unit 1 by the master unit camera 35, the visitor can easily talk and feel safe and display the video using the slave unit display 12. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a separate display means.
In addition, since the guidance image is displayed on the intercom handset 1 after the call operation, the visitor can recognize the call status from the image, and can be assured that the call status can be grasped.

In the above embodiment, the intercom handset 1 is composed of two devices, the call handset 1a and the handset 1b. However, the handset 1a and the handset 1b may be integrated. Moreover, although the call button 20 is not provided in the telephone handset 1b, the call button 20 may not be provided, and the human sensor 21 may not be provided. If there is no human sensor 21, it can be dealt with by displaying a guidance screen such as “Please touch the screen if you want” on the slave display 12 in the standby state.
Furthermore, although the human sensor 21 is provided in the call handset 1b, it may be provided in the call handset 1a. In addition, bidirectional video transmission between the slave unit 1 and the master unit 3 is performed, but the video signal may be transmitted only in one direction from the slave unit 1 to the master unit 3.

  1 ·· Interphone handset, 1a ·· Calling handset, 1b ·· Calling handset, 3 ·· Interphone handset, 11 ·· Operation part (calling operation part, ID information acquisition part), 12 ·· Handset display (Display), 13 .... call destination storage unit, 14 .... RFID reading unit (ID information acquisition unit), 15 .... caller CPU (call control unit, display control unit), 18..microphone, 19 ... Speaker, 21 .. Human sensor, 22 .. Communication device CPU, 31 .. Operation part, 32. Microphone, 33 .. Speaker, 34 .. Base display, 35 .. Base camera, 36. Image Storage unit, 37... Master CPU (guidance control unit, video control unit).

Claims (4)

An interphone device having an interphone slave unit provided with a call operation unit for calling a visited place and a microphone / speaker for calling, and a plurality of interphone master units provided with microphones / speakers for responding to a call,
The intercom handset has a plurality of call buttons composed of a touch panel provided on a display capable of displaying video, and can select and call any one of the plurality of intercom base units, and the call In addition to the microphone / speaker for the above-mentioned interphone master unit, a telephone handset that can call a specific part of the interphone master unit is arranged adjacent to each other,
The calling device includes an ID information acquisition unit that acquires visitor ID information, a call destination storage unit that stores ID information and at least one of the plurality of interphone master units in association with each other,
A call control unit that receives an operation of the call operation unit and transmits a call signal to the interphone master unit of the call destination;
The intercom apparatus, wherein the call control unit allows only the call button associated with the visitor's ID information to be operated based on the acquired ID information and information in the callee storage unit. The call handset displays a non-display on the touch panel of the call button that cannot be called after receiving the ID information of a visitor among a plurality of call buttons provided on the touch panel. The intercom apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit. The interphone master unit includes a master camera for imaging a responding person, and a video control unit that transmits an image captured by the master camera to the interphone slave unit.
The intercom apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the display control unit of the intercom slave unit displays a captured image of the master camera on the display. The interphone master unit stores an image storage unit that stores a guidance image including character information for notifying a visitor of a call status, and guidance control that receives the call signal and transmits a guidance image to the interphone slave unit. And
4. The intercom apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the display control unit of the intercom slave unit displays the received guidance image on the display.

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