JP6335361B1 - Elevator destination floor registration method - Google Patents

Abstract

It is possible to appropriately determine that a user is a visually impaired person, register a destination floor in a method suitable for the visually impaired person, and effectively prevent inconvenience that the user is trapped in a car. Provide a destination floor registration method for elevators. A destination floor registration method for an elevator detects a user or an object staying at an elevator gate and measures an operation time of a door safety device that restricts a closing operation of the door that opens and closes the gate. When the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time, the registration mode of the destination floor is switched from the first mode to the second mode for the visually impaired, and the destination floor is registered in the second mode. The door opening state is maintained regardless of whether or not the door safety device is in operation until completion of registration, and when the registration of the destination floor in the second mode is completed, the door closing operation is permitted. . [Selection] Figure 4

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to an elevator destination floor registration method.

  As a method of registering the destination floor of an elevator, a floor that can be registered as a destination floor is displayed on the touch panel installed in the car, and the user for the display area of one of the floors displayed on the touch panel There is a known method of detecting the contact of the person and registering the floor in the destination floor. This method has a problem that when the user is visually impaired, it is difficult to correctly touch the display area of the floor to be registered as the destination floor, and an erroneous operation is likely to occur. Therefore, when a user is identified as a visually handicapped person, a method for recognizing the pattern of the locus touched by the user and registering the floor indicated by the locus as the destination floor has also been proposed. Yes.

  However, it is difficult to appropriately determine whether the user who operates the touch panel is a visually impaired person. In addition, when the user is visually impaired, there is a concern that the user may be trapped in the car if the door that opens and closes the elevator entrance / exit is closed without correctly registering the destination floor. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately determine that the user is a visually impaired person, register the destination floor in a method suitable for the visually impaired person, and effectively prevent inconvenience that the user is trapped in the car. It is hoped that.

Japanese Patent No. 5115554

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is that it is possible to register a destination floor in a manner suitable for a visually impaired person by appropriately judging that the user is a visually impaired person, and the user is confined in a cage. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator destination floor registration method that can effectively prevent inconvenience.

  In the elevator destination floor registration method according to the embodiment, the operation time of the door safety device that limits the closing operation of the door that opens and closes the entrance / exit by detecting a user or an object staying at the entrance / exit of the elevator, When the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time, the registration mode of the destination floor is switched from the first mode to the second mode for the visually impaired, and the destination floor is registered in the second mode. The door opening state is maintained regardless of whether or not the door safety device is in operation until completion of registration, and when the registration of the destination floor in the second mode is completed, the door closing operation is permitted. .

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a door safety device. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the appearance of the car operation panel. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the car operation panel. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a processing procedure from landing in a hall of a floor where a car is located until departure to a destination floor. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure for destination floor registration in the voice input mode. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure from when a car is landed in a floor hall to when the car departs toward the destination floor. FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of destination floor registration in the speech reading mode.

  Hereinafter, an elevator destination floor registration method according to an embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the elevator destination floor registration method according to the embodiment, it is possible to appropriately determine that the user is a visually impaired person and register the destination floor in a manner suitable for the visually impaired person, and the user can register the destination floor in the car. It is possible to effectively prevent inconveniences confined in the space.

  An elevator to which the elevator destination floor registration method according to the embodiment is applicable is an elevator including a door safety device. The door safety device detects a user or an object staying at the elevator entrance and limits the door closing operation for opening and closing the entrance. As a door safety device, when a safety shoe attached to the door is pressed, a safety switch is turned on to open the door that is about to close, a photoelectric tube type that detects a user by a photoelectric tube sensor provided at the entrance, There are various types such as a multi-beam type that multi-detects a user with a multi-beam sensor provided at the entrance / exit. In the present embodiment, a mechanical door safety device is assumed, but other methods may be used.

  Registration of the elevator destination floor is generally performed by a user operating a car operation panel provided in the car. In the present embodiment, a car operation panel operated by the user is assumed to have a touch panel. A car operation panel equipped with a touch panel has a higher display capability than a push button type car operation panel, and can provide various kinds of information to the user, and also has an advantage of excellent display layout flexibility.

  A car operation panel equipped with a touch panel usually displays a floor that can be registered as a destination floor, detects a user's contact with the display area of one of the floors displayed on the touch panel, Register the floor as the destination floor. For this reason, when the user is a visually impaired person, it is difficult to correctly touch the display area of the floor to be registered as the destination floor, and an erroneous operation is likely to occur. Therefore, in the present embodiment, as the registration mode for the destination floor, in addition to the mode based on the normal operation of the car operation panel having the touch panel described above (first mode), the mode for visually impaired persons (second mode) Mode).

  The second mode for the visually impaired is a mode in which an operation for registering the destination floor can be performed without depending on the user's vision, and various methods are conceivable. In the present embodiment, as the second mode, a mode in which the floor specified by recognizing the voice spoken by the user is registered as the destination floor (voice input mode), and the user has touched on the touch panel. We assume a mode in which the floor displayed at the location is read out by voice and the floor displayed at the location where the user's contact is interrupted is registered as the destination floor (speech reading mode). It may be.

  If the user is a visually handicapped person, the door that opens and closes the entrance / exit is held by hand so that the operation of registering the destination floor of the elevator is not time-consuming and trapped in the car. In many cases, the car operation panel is operated while the car is not closed. In an elevator provided with a door safety device, the door safety device is activated and the open state of the door is maintained while the user is pressing the door by hand. Therefore, in this embodiment, the operation time of the door safety device is used as information for determining whether or not the user is a visually impaired person. That is, when the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time, it is assumed that the user is visually impaired and the registration mode of the destination floor is switched from the first mode to the second mode.

  In the present embodiment, the door safety device operates until the registration of the destination floor in the second mode is completed after switching the registration mode of the destination floor from the first mode to the second mode. Keep the door open regardless of whether it is open or not. When the registration of the destination floor is completed, the door closing operation is permitted. As a result, it is possible to effectively prevent inconvenience that a visually impaired person is trapped in the car.

  Hereinafter, a more detailed embodiment will be described as an example in which the above-described voice input mode is used as the second mode for the visually impaired as the first embodiment, and an example in which the voice reading mode is used as the second embodiment. .

<First Embodiment>
As described above, the door safety device detects a user or an object staying at the elevator entrance and restricts the closing operation of the door that opens and closes the entrance. In this embodiment, the door safety device Door safety devices shall be used. An example of a mechanical door safety device is shown in FIG. A door safety device 20 shown in FIG. 1 includes a safety shoe 21 provided along an end edge of a door 50 that opens and closes an entrance, and a link 22 that slidably supports the safety shoe 21 with respect to the door 50. , 23 and a safety switch 24. The safety shoe 21 slides obliquely upward with respect to the door 50 when it is pushed by the support structure by the links 22 and 23 to turn on the safety switch 24. As a result, the door safety device 20 is activated, an operation signal is sent to the door drive device that drives the door 50, and the door 50 is opened even when it is about to close.

  In this embodiment, the operation signal of the door safety device 20 is sent not only to the door drive device but also to the car operation panel installed in the elevator car. The car operation panel monitors the operation signal of the door safety device 20 and measures the operation time, which is the time during which the operation of the door safety device 20 continues. When the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time, the registration mode of the destination floor is changed from the first mode (hereinafter referred to as “normal mode”) to the second mode for the visually impaired. Switch to (Voice input mode).

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the appearance of the car operation panel. The car operation panel 10 shown in FIG. 2 includes a touch panel 11, an indicator 12, a speaker 13, a microphone 14, an open button 15a, and a close button 15b.

  The touch panel 11 is an electronic component that combines a display device such as a liquid crystal panel and a position input device such as a touch pad, and functions as an interface that accepts a user's operation for registering a destination floor. The touch panel 11 displays a floor button 16 for each floor (stop floor) on which the car can be landed and detects contact with the touch panel 11. When the car operation panel 10 operates in the above-described normal mode, when an operation touching any one of the floor buttons 16 displayed on the touch panel 11 is detected, the floor corresponding to the floor button 16 is displayed as the destination floor. Registered as

  The indicator 12 is a display device that informs the user of the operation status of the car, and displays, for example, a floor display indicating the current position of the car and a direction display indicating the moving direction of the car. The speaker 13 is a sound output device that outputs various sounds. The microphone 14 is a voice input device that records voice uttered by the user. The open button 15a and the close button 15b are push buttons operated by the user when the door 50 is opened and closed.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of the car operation panel 10. As shown in FIG. 3, the car operation panel 10 is a control that controls these operations in addition to the touch panel 11, the indicator 12, the speaker 13, the microphone 14, the push button 15 such as the open button 15a and the close button 15b. A unit 18 is provided. The control unit 18 is connected to the door safety device 20, the door drive device 30 and the elevator control device 40. The door drive device 30 drives the door 50 using a power source such as a motor. The elevator control device 40 controls the operation of the elevator. When the destination floor is designated from the car operation panel 10, the elevator control device 40 has a function of registering the destination floor and controlling the car to move to the destination floor. .

  The control unit 18 includes, for example, a processor such as a CPU or a GPU, a main storage memory such as a RAM used as a work area of the processor, and a program memory such as a ROM that stores a control program. In this case, the control unit 18 has a main function for carrying out the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment by reading the control program stored in the program memory into the main memory and executing it. Can be realized.

  That is, the control unit 18 has a function of measuring the operation time of the door safety device 20. When the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time, the control unit 18 switches the registration mode of the destination floor from the normal mode using the touch panel 11 to the voice input mode using the microphone 14. It has a function. At this time, the control unit 18 switches the registration mode of the destination floor from the normal mode to the voice input mode when the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches a second predetermined time shorter than the first predetermined time. When the operation time reaches the first predetermined time without the operation of the door safety device 20 being interrupted, the destination floor registration mode is changed from the normal mode to the voice input mode. You may make it switch to. In the present embodiment, as an example, the first predetermined time is 10 seconds and the second predetermined time is 5 seconds. However, the first predetermined time and the second predetermined time are not limited to this, but are appropriate. You can set the time in advance.

  Further, when the registration mode of the destination floor is switched to the voice input mode, the control unit 18 specifies the function of registering the destination floor by the voice input mode, that is, by recognizing the user's utterance voice recorded by the microphone 14. The function to register the floor to be used as the destination floor is provided. Further, the control unit 18 maintains a door open state regardless of the operation of the door safety device 20 until registration of the destination floor is completed, and permits a door closing operation when registration of the destination floor is completed. Prepare.

  Next, the operation of the elevator to which the elevator destination floor registration method according to this embodiment is applied will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of a processing procedure from landing in a hall of a floor where a car is located until departure to a destination floor. It is assumed that the registration mode of the destination floor when the car has landed in the hall is the normal mode.

  When landing in the hall 60 of the floor with the car, first, the door 50 that opens and closes the entrance / exit is opened by driving the door driving device 30 (step S101). Thereafter, the control unit 18 of the car operation panel 10 monitors the operation signal of the door safety device 20 and determines whether or not the door safety device 20 has been operated (step S102). Here, if the door safety device 20 is not operating (step S102: No), the control unit 18 determines whether registration of the destination floor in the normal mode is completed (step S103), and the destination in the normal mode. If the registration of the floor has not been completed (step S103: No), the process returns to step S102 to continue monitoring the operation signal of the door safety device 20. On the other hand, when the registration of the destination floor in the normal mode is completed (step S103: Yes), the process proceeds to step S115.

  Further, when the control unit 18 detects that the door safety device 20 is activated (step S102: Yes), the control unit 18 starts measuring the operation time of the door safety device 20 (step S104). Then, the control unit 18 determines whether the operation time has reached 5 seconds without interruption of the operation of the door safety device 20 (step S105, step S106), and the operation of the door safety device 20 is performed without interruption. When the time reaches 5 seconds (step S105: No, step S106: Yes), a voice announcement to switch from the normal mode to the voice input mode after 5 seconds is output from the speaker 13 (step S107). On the other hand, when the operation is interrupted before the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches 5 seconds (step S105: Yes, step S106: No), the process proceeds to step S103 to monitor the registration of the destination floor in the normal mode. .

  When the voice announcement is output in step S107, the control unit 18 continues to determine whether or not the operation time has reached 10 seconds without interruption of the operation of the door safety device 20 (steps S108 and S109). When the operation time reaches 10 seconds without interruption of the operation of the door safety device 20 (step S108: No, step S109: Yes), the control unit 18 changes the registration mode of the destination floor from the normal mode to the voice input mode. After switching (step S110), the destination floor registration process in the voice input mode is started. The destination floor registration process procedure in the voice input mode will be described later. On the other hand, when the operation is interrupted before the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches 10 seconds (step S108: Yes, step S109: No), the process proceeds to step S103 to monitor the registration of the destination floor in the normal mode. .

  After switching the registration mode of the destination floor to the voice input mode, the control unit 18 determines whether registration of the destination floor in the voice input mode is completed (step S111). Then, after the destination floor registration mode is switched to the voice input mode, a predetermined time (for example, 20 seconds) has elapsed without completing the registration of the destination floor in the voice input mode (step S111: No, step S112: Yes). The control unit 18 returns the registration mode of the destination floor from the voice input mode to the normal mode (step S113), returns to step S102, and repeats the subsequent processing. On the other hand, if the registration of the destination floor in the voice input mode is completed before the predetermined time has elapsed after switching to the voice input mode (step S111: Yes, step S112: No), the fact that the registration of the destination floor has been completed. Is output from the speaker 13 (step S114), and the process proceeds to step S115.

  In step S115, since the registration of the destination floor has already been completed, the control unit 18 permits the door 50 to open and close the door, and the door 50 that opens and closes the door 50 is closed by driving the door driving device 30 (step S115). S115). That is, until the registration of the destination floor is completed, the open state of the door 50 is maintained regardless of whether or not the door safety device 20 is operating, and when the registration of the destination floor is completed, the closing operation of the door 50 is permitted. . Thereafter, the car departs toward the destination floor according to the control of the elevator control device 40.

  In the above description, when the destination floor registration mode is switched from the normal mode to the voice input mode, the destination floor is not registered even if the user touches the floor button 16 displayed on the touch panel 11. However, after switching to the voice input mode, the destination floor may be registered by touching the floor button 16 on the touch panel 11. That is, as the registration mode for the destination floor, a mode in which the normal mode and the voice input mode are combined may be set as the second mode.

  Here, the destination floor registration processing procedure in the voice input mode will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure for destination floor registration in the voice input mode.

  When the control unit 18 of the car operation panel 10 switches the registration mode of the destination floor to the voice input mode, first, the speaker 13 outputs a voice announcement prompting the user to input a voice by speaking the destination floor (step S201). ). Thereafter, the control unit 18 turns on the microphone 14 (step S202), records audio data recorded by the microphone 14 (step S203), and turns off the microphone 14 after a predetermined time (for example, 5 seconds) has elapsed (step S204). ).

  Next, the control unit 18 determines whether or not the volume of the audio data recorded in step S203 is equal to or higher than a reference value (step S205). If the volume of the audio data is less than the reference value (step S205: No), Returning to step S201, the subsequent processing is repeated. On the other hand, if the volume of the voice data is equal to or higher than the reference value (step S205: Yes), the control unit 18 performs voice recognition on the voice data recorded in step S203 (step S206).

  When performing voice recognition on the voice data, the control unit 18 determines whether or not the destination floor can be specified from the result of the voice recognition (step S207), and if the destination floor cannot be specified (step S207: No). Returning to step S201, the subsequent processing is repeated. On the other hand, when the destination floor can be specified (step S207: Yes), the destination floor specified by voice recognition is registered (step S208), and the process is terminated.

  In the processing procedure described above, if the volume of the voice data recorded and recorded by the microphone 14 is less than the reference value or if the destination floor cannot be specified by voice recognition for the voice data, the user is prompted to input voice. Although the prompting voice announcement is repeatedly output from the speaker 13, the volume of the voice announcement at this time may be changed with the passage of time. For example, when a predetermined time (for example, 10 seconds) elapses after the registration mode of the destination floor is switched to the voice input mode, the volume of the voice announcement may be reduced.

  As described above in detail with specific examples, according to the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment, when the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time, Since the registration mode is switched from the normal mode to the voice input mode, and the destination floor can be registered by recognizing the voice spoken by the user, it is determined appropriately that the user is visually impaired. Thus, the destination floor can be appropriately registered by a method suitable for the visually impaired. Further, according to the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment, the door that opens and closes the entrance / exit regardless of whether the door safety device 20 is operating or not until the registration of the destination floor is completed. When the registration of the destination floor is completed, the closing operation of the door 50 is permitted. Therefore, it is possible to effectively prevent the user from being trapped in the car.

<Second Embodiment>
Next, a second embodiment will be described. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that a voice reading mode is used instead of the voice input mode as the second mode for the visually impaired. Below, the description which overlaps with 1st Embodiment is abbreviate | omitted suitably, and only a different point from 1st Embodiment is demonstrated.

  In the present embodiment, when the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time, the control unit 18 of the car operation panel 10 switches the registration mode of the destination floor from the normal mode to the voice reading mode, and reads out the voice. It has a function to register the destination floor according to the mode. In the voice reading mode, as described above, the floor indicated by the floor button 16 displayed at the position touched by the user on the touch panel 11 is read out by voice and displayed at the position where the user's contact is interrupted. In this mode, the floor indicated by the floor button 16 is registered as the destination floor. Other functions of the control unit 18 are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  Here, the operation of the elevator to which the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment is applied will be described. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure from when a car is landed in a floor hall to when the car departs toward the destination floor. Note that, in the series of processes shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6, the processes other than the process of step S307 and the processes from step S310 to step S312 are the same as the processes in the first embodiment shown in FIG. Omitted.

  In this embodiment, after starting the measurement of the operation time of the door safety device 20 in step S304, if the operation time reaches 5 seconds without interruption of the operation of the door safety device 20 (step S305: No, step S306: Yes) ), The control unit 18 of the car operation panel 10 outputs a voice announcement to the effect that the normal mode is switched to the voice reading mode after 5 seconds from the speaker 13 (step S307). When the operation time reaches 10 seconds without interruption of the operation of the door safety device 20 (step S308: No, step S309: Yes), the control unit 18 changes the registration mode of the destination floor from the normal mode to the voice reading mode. Switching (step S310), the destination floor registration process in the voice input mode is started.

  Further, in this embodiment, when the destination floor registration in the voice reading mode has not been completed and the predetermined time (for example, 20 seconds) has elapsed since the registration mode of the destination floor was switched to the voice reading mode (step S311: No, The control unit 18 returns the registration mode of the destination floor from the voice reading mode to the normal mode (step S313), returns to step S302, and repeats the subsequent processing.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of destination floor registration in the speech reading mode.

  When the control unit 18 of the car operation panel 10 switches the registration mode of the destination floor to the voice reading mode, first, the voice announcement that prompts the user to slowly touch the touch panel 11 is output from the speaker 13 (step S401). When the user touches the touch panel 11 in accordance with the voice announcement, the control unit 18 acquires the coordinates of the contact position on the touch panel 11 (step S402), and any of the floor buttons 16 displayed on the touch panel 11 is displayed. It is determined whether or not the display area is touched (step S403). If the user touches the display area of any floor button 16 (step S403: Yes), the speaker 13 outputs a sound for reading the floor indicated by the floor button 16 (step S404). On the other hand, if the user does not touch the display area of any floor button 16 (step S403: No), the process returns to step S402 and the subsequent processing is repeated.

  Further, after reading the floor in step S404, the control unit 18 determines whether or not the user touches the touch panel 11 (step S405), and if the touch to the touch panel 11 is not interrupted. (Step S405: No), it returns to Step S402 and the subsequent processing is repeated. On the other hand, when the contact with the touch panel 11 is interrupted (step S405: Yes), the control unit 18 determines whether or not the coordinates of the position at which the contact is interrupted are within the display area of any floor button 16 (step S405). S406). If the coordinates of the position at which the contact is interrupted are within the display area of any floor button 16 (step S406: Yes), the floor indicated by the floor button 16 is registered as the destination floor (step S407). The process is terminated. On the other hand, if the coordinates of the position at which the contact is interrupted are not within the display area of any of the floor buttons 16, a voice announcement indicating that the destination floor could not be registered is output from the speaker 13 (step S408), and the process proceeds to step S401. Return and repeat the subsequent processing.

  As described above, according to the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment, when the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time, the destination floor registration mode is switched from the normal mode to the voice reading mode. Since the user can register the desired destination floor by telling the user which voice the floor button 16 is displayed at the contact position on the touch panel 11 by voice, the user is visually impaired. The destination floor can be appropriately registered by a method suitable for the visually handicapped by appropriately determining that the person is a person who is visually impaired. Further, according to the elevator destination floor registration method according to the present embodiment, whether or not the door safety device 20 is operating until the registration of the destination floor is completed, as in the first embodiment. Regardless, the door 50 that opens and closes the entrance / exit is kept open, and when the destination floor registration is completed, the door 50 is allowed to be closed, which effectively prevents the user from being trapped in the car. Can be prevented.

<Modification>
In the first embodiment and the second embodiment described above, the destination floor registration mode is the first mode on condition that the operation time of the door safety device 20 has reached the first predetermined time. The normal mode is switched to the voice input mode or the voice reading mode which is the second mode for the visually impaired. However, as a condition for switching the destination floor registration mode from the first mode to the second mode, Other conditions may be added.

  For example, when the operation time of the door safety device 20 reaches the first predetermined time while the user is staying near the car operation panel 10 provided with the touch panel 11, the registration mode of the destination floor is changed to the first mode. The mode may be switched from the first mode to the second mode. Whether or not the user stays in the vicinity of the car operation panel 10 provided with the touch panel 11 is determined by, for example, attaching a human sensor having a detection range in the vicinity of the car operation panel 10 to the car. The determination can be made based on the sensor signal to be output. In addition, when a monitoring camera or the like for photographing the inside of the car is provided, it is determined whether or not a user is staying near the car operation panel 10 by analyzing an image photographed by the camera. May be determined. In addition to the load sensor for detecting the number of passengers in the car, a load sensor for detecting the load in the vicinity of the car operation panel 10 is attached, and based on the sensor signal output from the load sensor, It may be determined whether or not a user is staying in the vicinity of the car operation panel 10.

  In addition, when a Braille region for assisting an operation by a visually impaired person is provided on or near the touch panel 11 of the car operation panel 10, the operation time of the door safety device 20 is a first predetermined time. When the time is reached and contact with the braille area is detected, the registration mode of the destination floor may be switched from the first mode to the second mode.

  When the open button 15a and the close button 15b are provided as the push buttons 15 different from the touch panel 11 as in the car operation panel 10 illustrated in FIG. 2, the operation time of the door safety device 20 is the first. When the predetermined time is reached and the open button 15a and the close button 15b are operated simultaneously, the registration mode of the destination floor may be switched from the first mode to the second mode.

  As in the modification described above, as a condition for switching the registration mode of the destination floor from the first mode to the second mode, not only the condition that the operation time of the door safety device 20 has reached the first predetermined time. By adding other conditions, it is possible to switch the registration mode of the destination floor to the second mode for the visually impaired person after more accurately determining that the user is the visually impaired person.

  According to at least one embodiment described above, it is possible to appropriately determine that the user is a visually impaired person, register the destination floor in a manner suitable for the visually impaired person, and It is possible to effectively prevent the inconvenience that is trapped in

  As mentioned above, although some embodiment of this invention was described, these embodiment is shown as an example and is not intending limiting the range of invention. These embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

  10 Car Operation Panel, 11 Touch Panel, 18 Control Unit, 20 Door Safety Device, 30 Door Drive Device, 40 Elevator Control Device, 50 Door

Claims (6)

Measure the operating time of the door safety device that detects the user or object staying at the elevator entrance and limits the closing operation of the door that opens and closes the entrance,
When the operation time of the door safety device reaches a first predetermined time, the registration mode of the destination floor is switched from the first mode to the second mode for the visually impaired.
Until the registration of the destination floor in the second mode is completed, the door is kept open regardless of whether the door safety device is operating,
An elevator destination floor registration method for permitting the door closing operation when registration of the destination floor in the second mode is completed. Use of switching the registration mode of the destination floor from the first mode to the second mode when the operation time of the door safety device reaches a second predetermined time shorter than the first predetermined time. Output voice announcements
When the operation time reaches the first predetermined time without interruption of the operation of the door safety device after outputting the voice announcement, the registration mode of the destination floor is switched from the first mode to the second mode. Item 2. The elevator destination floor registration method according to Item 1. The first mode is a mode in which a floor displayed at a position touched by a user on a touch panel provided in a car is registered as a destination floor,
The second mode is a mode in which a floor specified by recognizing a voice uttered by the user is registered as a destination floor, or a floor displayed at a position touched by the user on the touch panel. The elevator destination floor registration method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the floor is read out by voice and the floor displayed at a position where the user's contact is interrupted is registered as the destination floor. It is determined whether a user is staying in the vicinity of the touch panel using at least one of a human sensor, a camera, and a load sensor,
When the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time while the user is staying in the vicinity of the touch panel, the registration mode of the destination floor is changed from the first mode to the second mode. The elevator destination floor registration method according to claim 3. A braille area is provided on or near the touch panel,
When the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time and contact with the braille area is detected, the registration mode of the destination floor is changed from the first mode to the second mode. The elevator destination floor registration method according to claim 3. When the operation time of the door safety device reaches the first predetermined time and the open button and the close button for instructing opening / closing of the door are operated simultaneously, the registration mode of the destination floor is changed to the first mode. The elevator destination floor registration method according to claim 3, wherein the elevator destination is switched to the second mode.

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