JP6807772B2 - Intercom device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an intercom device for a visitor to call a resident, and more particularly to an intercom device that can be used by a courier company.

The handling of parcels is increasing, but statistics show that redelivery accounts for 20% of this, increasing the burden on logistics infrastructure. Conventionally, there is a system in which a delivery locker is provided in an apartment house so that redelivery is not required even if the resident is absent (see, for example, Patent Document 1), but an absentee card is posted for a detached house. The recipient went to pick up the parcel or deliver it to a storage location such as a distribution center.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-278314

As mentioned above, if the recipient was absent for delivery to the detached house, both the courier and the recipient's resident were burdened.
There is also a system that specifies the delivery time to reduce such a burden, but the time that can be specified is as short as several hours, and even during that time, the recipient must go out. In some cases, the courier company was absent even if it arrived within the specified time.

Therefore, in view of such a problem, the present invention provides redelivery without using an absentee card to the courier who came to deliver when the recipient goes out for a short time during the time when the courier arrives. The purpose is to provide an intercom device that can be encouraged and reduce the burden on both the recipient and the courier.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1 is an intercom having an entrance slave unit for a visitor to call a resident and a living room master unit for a resident to answer a call from the entrance slave unit. In the device, the living room master unit has a timer that counts the time set by the resident, and if the entrance slave unit receives a call operation before the timer counts up, the remaining timer at the time of receiving the call. It has a master unit control unit that generates message voice including time information and makes a sound from the entrance slave unit , and an external communication unit that enables communication with a mobile terminal carried by a resident via a public communication network. It is characterized in that it is possible to set and change the time of the timer of the living room master unit via the public communication network by the mobile terminal .
According to this configuration, when the courier company is expected to come to deliver, if he / she is away for a while, he / she will come to deliver the courier by setting a timer assuming the time when he / she will be away. When the courier calls the entrance slave unit, a message including the remaining time of the timer, for example, "I will return home in 5 minutes, can you come after 5 minutes?" Is sent from the entrance slave unit. Can be made to. By hearing such a message, the courier who came to the delivery may go around the neighborhood without posting an absentee card and then accept the redelivery, reducing the trouble of making a redelivery request and also reducing the trouble. The courier can reduce the trouble of redelivering the day again.

Furthermore, since the timer can be set and the timer setting time can be changed from outside, it is not necessary to bother the courier company when the scheduled time cannot be returned.

The invention of claim 2 is the invention of claim 1 , wherein the living room master unit has a voice storage unit that stores the sound collected by the entrance slave unit, and the master unit control unit determines the remaining time of the timer. After generating a message voice to notify and sounding the sound, a predetermined announcement prompting the input of a message is sounded from the entrance slave unit, and the voice collected by the entrance slave unit is saved in the voice storage unit. ..
According to this configuration, for example, after sounding the message "I'll be back home in 5 minutes, can you come in 5 minutes or later" generated by the voice generator, for example, "If you can respond to this message," By sounding the announcement, "Please give me a message", the resident who returned home from the saved message of the courier can grasp the subsequent behavior of the courier and can easily deal with it.

The invention of claim 3 is an interphone device having an entrance slave unit for a visitor to call a resident and a living room master unit for the resident to answer a call from the entrance slave unit. Is a courier company based on the message voice storage unit that stores the message voice including a predetermined guidance message for determining whether the visitor is a courier company and the message contents of the visitor collected by the entrance slave unit. It has a message discriminating unit for discriminating, a timer for counting the time set by the resident, and a master unit control unit for selecting a message voice and making a sound from the entrance slave unit. The master unit control unit has a timer. If the entrance slave unit receives a call operation before counting up, a guidance message is sounded from the entrance slave unit, and then the message discriminator uses the voice information of the visitor collected by the entrance slave unit to send the visitor to the delivery company. If it is determined that it is, a message voice including the remaining time information of the timer at that time is generated and made to sound from the entrance slave unit, and if it is determined that it is not a delivery company, a specific message voice that does not include the remaining time of the timer is output. It is characterized by selecting and making a sound from the entrance slave unit.
According to this configuration, if it is determined that the visitor is a courier, the resident will be notified of the time to return from the message content responded by the visitor, so the courier can grasp it and go around the neighborhood without posting an absentee vote. After that, there is a possibility of responding to the redelivery at the time of returning home, the resident can reduce the trouble of making a redelivery request, and the courier can reduce the trouble of redelivering the day again. In addition, if the visitor is not a courier, he will announce a message that does not include the remaining time, so he does not have to notify that he is absent.

According to the present invention, when the courier company is expected to come to the delivery, when he / she is away for a short time, he / she comes to deliver the courier by setting a timer assuming the time when he / she will be absent. When the courier calls the entrance slave unit, the entrance slave unit sends a message including the remaining time of the timer, for example, "I will return home in 5 minutes. Can you come after 5 minutes?" Can be made to. Therefore, when the courier who comes to the delivery hears such a message, there is a possibility that the courier will go around the neighborhood and then accept the redelivery without posting the absentee card, and the resident will request or pick up the redelivery. It will reduce the time and effort to go, and the courier will be able to reduce the time and effort to redeliver the day.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the intercom apparatus which concerns on this invention, and shows the main equipment by a block diagram.

Hereinafter, embodiments embodying the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of an intercom device according to the present invention, in which 1 is an entrance slave unit installed outside a dwelling unit such as an entrance and for a visitor to call a resident, and 2 is installed inside a dwelling unit and the entrance. The living room master unit 3 for answering the call from the slave unit 1 is a mobile terminal such as a smartphone carried by the resident. The entrance slave unit 1 and the living room master unit 2 are connected to each other via the transmission line L1, and the mobile terminal 3 and the living room master unit 2 can communicate with each other via the public communication network N.

The entrance slave unit 1 includes a camera 11 for capturing a visitor, a video processing unit 12 for performing modulation processing and the like for transmitting the captured image of the camera 11, a microphone 13 and a speaker 14 for talking, a microphone 13 and a speaker. It includes a voice control unit 15 for controlling 14, a call button 16 for calling operation, a slave unit communication IF 17 for communicating with the living room master unit 2, and the like.

The living room master unit 2 includes a monitor 21 that displays an image captured by the camera 11, a video processing unit 22 that generates an image to be displayed on the monitor 21, a microphone 23a and a speaker 23b for talking, and a voice that controls the microphone 23a and the speaker 23b. Control unit 23, operation unit 24 that performs various operations including response operation and timer setting operation described later, memory 25 that stores visitor voice, etc., message discrimination unit 26 that discriminates a specific wording from voice messages, living room master unit 2 It is provided with a master unit CPU 27 for controlling the speaker, a master unit communication IF 28 for communicating with the entrance slave unit 1, an external communication IF (external communication unit) 29 for communicating with the mobile terminal 3 via the public communication network N, and the like.
In addition to controlling the entire living room master unit 2, the master unit CPU 27 has a timer 27a for counting a set time and a message voice storage unit 27b for storing a plurality of message voices, and reports from the entrance slave unit 1. It has a message voice control function for generating a sounding message voice, taking out a stored message voice, and making a sound from the entrance slave unit 1.

The intercom device configured as described above operates as follows. However, a visitor calls a resident from the entrance slave unit 1, and the resident who receives the call operates the living room master unit 2 to respond, and further, when the calling operation is performed, the camera 11 is activated and the living room master unit is activated. Since the operation of displaying the visitor image on the monitor 21 of 2 is the same as the conventional one, the description thereof will be omitted, and here, the operation when the home delivery compatible mode corresponding to the home delivery company is set will be described.

The home delivery support mode is used when you want to go out for a short time even though you are about to enter the specified time zone, or when you go out for a short time even though you are already in the specified time zone. It is set by a predetermined operation of the operation unit 24 of the machine 2.
Specifically, the transition is made by specifying the time zone when the resident receives the parcel delivery. It is assumed that the time zone in which delivery is specified to the courier is, for example, 16:00 to 18:00, and the current time is a little before 16:00. At this time, if there is a need to return in a short time and want to go out, the resident determines that he / she can return home within 30 minutes by operating the room master unit 2 and sets the count time of the timer 27a (for example, to 30 minutes). (Setting), the living room master unit 2 shifts to the home delivery compatible mode.

The room master unit 2 that has shifted to the home delivery compatible mode continues the home delivery compatible mode until 30 minutes have passed and the timer 27a counts up. During this period, for example, 25 minutes after the setting (when the remaining time of the timer 27a is 5 minutes), when the courier visits and the call button 16 of the entrance slave unit 1 is pressed, the living room master unit that receives the call. In 2, under the control of the master unit CPU27, the message "I am out in the neighborhood, but I will be back in 5 minutes. If you are a courier, please wait or redeliver after 5 minutes." The sound is reported from the speaker 14 of the entrance slave unit 1.
This message is generated by the master unit CPU 27 by adding the remaining time information of the timer 27a to a predetermined position of the wording stored in the message voice storage unit 27b, and is reported.

Furthermore, after the above message is sounded, among the message voices stored in the message voice storage unit 27b, "If you can respond to this message, please give me a message" so that the resident can confirm the response of the courier company. Is taken out and reported. Subsequently, the master unit CPU 27 sets the memory 25 as the recording mode in accordance with the notification sound of this message, and saves the message of the delivery company collected by the microphone 13.
If the resident who returned home reproduces the message of the courier company saved in this way, he / she can know whether he / she can come again.

Further, if the resident who has gone out cannot return to the scheduled time, the counting time of the timer 27a can be changed from the mobile terminal 3.
Specifically, by operating the mobile terminal 3 from outside to connect to the room master unit 2, the room master unit 2 can be accessed via the public communication network N via Internet communication, and then the timer 27a counts. You can change the time by opening the time change page. With this change operation, the timer count time is changed under the control of the master unit CPU 27. For example, if the time is extended by 15 minutes from the above time before the delivery company arrives, the above "I am out in the neighborhood, but I will return in 5 minutes." The message "Please wait or redeliver after 5 minutes if you are a courier" is "I am out in the neighborhood, but I will be back in 20 minutes. If you are a courier, please wait. Please wait or redeliver after 20 minutes, "said the speaker 14 based on the extended time.

Also, if the delivery company is extended after coming once, the message to be sounded is automatically changed under the control of the master unit CPU 27, and if the delivery company comes again 35 minutes after the timer is first set, the change setting is made. Since the remaining time is 10 minutes, for example, "The time to return home is delayed. I will return home in 10 minutes. If you are a courier, please redeliver after 10 minutes." .. These messages are stored in the message voice storage unit 27b. Further, at this time, software for operating the timer 27a of the living room master unit 2 is pre-installed in the mobile terminal 3.

In this way, when the courier company is expected to come to deliver, when he / she is away for a while, he / she comes to deliver the courier by setting the timer 27a assuming the time when he / she will be away. When the courier company calls the entrance slave unit 1, a message including the remaining time of the timer 27a, for example, a message "I will return home in 5 minutes, can you come after 5 minutes?" Is displayed on the entrance slave unit 1. Is reported from. By hearing this message, the courier who came to the delivery may go around the neighborhood and then respond to the redelivery without posting an absentee card, reducing the time and effort for the resident to request the redelivery, and also the courier. It is possible to reduce the trouble of redelivering the day again.
In addition, after the remaining time of the timer 27a is sounded, a message confirming the response of the courier company is sounded and the voice is saved, so that the resident who has returned home can grasp the subsequent behavior of the courier company and deal with it. easy.
Further, since the resident who has set the timer 27a and went out can change the set time of the timer 27a from the outside, he / she does not have to bother the delivery company when he / she cannot return home at the scheduled time.

Further, by using the message determination unit 26, the operation can be performed as follows. When the message determination unit 26 is used, the message selection mode is further selected in the home delivery correspondence mode state. The selection of this message selection mode is also set by the operation of the operation unit 24.
The message discriminating unit 26 has registered the name of the courier company as the wording to be discriminated, reads the message of the visitor collected by the entrance slave unit 1, and if the message contains the wording registered in the message, the courier company. Is determined to be.

When the entrance slave unit 1 receives a call operation while the message selection mode is selected, the guidance message "Which one?" Is first sounded from the speaker 14 of the entrance slave unit 1 under the control of the master unit CPU 27. To.
When a visitor who receives the message of this question responds, for example, "It is XX courier", the message determination unit 26 determines whether there is a registered wording in the voice message and is registered. If it is the name of a courier company, it is determined that it is a courier company. Upon receiving the judgment that the base unit CPU27 is a courier company, the same as above, "I am out in the neighborhood, but I will be back in 5 minutes. If you are a courier company, please wait or after 5 minutes. Please redeliver to. ”Is a control to sound the message. The subsequent flow is as described above.

On the other hand, if there is no wording in the response message of the visitor to determine that the delivery company is not a delivery company, the message determination unit 26 determines that the message is not a delivery company, and the master CPU 27 receives the message and the message including the remaining time information of the timer 27a Instead of sounding, another prepared message, for example, "Please give me a message that you cannot take your hands off," is selected from the message voice storage unit 27b, taken out, and sounded from the speaker 14 of the entrance slave unit 1. After that, the sound collected by the microphone 13 of the entrance slave unit 1 is stored in the memory 25.

In this way, if the visitor is identified from the voice of the visitor and the delivery company is not a courier, the message to be notified is changed to the content that does not notify the return time, so that it is not necessary to notify the absence. .. In addition, it is convenient for both visitors and residents because it preserves the requirements of the visitor by sounding a message asking for the requirements.

In the above embodiment, after the message including the remaining time of the timer 27a is sounded, the announcement prompting the input of the message for confirming the correspondence is sounded, but it is determined that the visitor is a courier company. If not, this message does not have to be sounded. It may be sufficient to simply sound a message including the remaining time of the timer 27a.

1 ... Entrance slave unit, 2 ... Living room master unit, 3 ... Mobile terminal, 13 ... Microphone, 14 ... Speaker, 16 ... Call button, 24 ... Operation unit, 25 ... Memory (voice storage unit) ), 26 ... Message discriminating unit, 27 ... Master unit CPU (master unit control unit), 27a ... Timer, 27b ... Message voice storage unit, 29 ... External communication IF, N ... Public communication network.

Claims (3)

An intercom device having an entrance slave unit for a visitor to call a resident and a living room master unit for a resident to answer a call from the entrance slave unit.
The living room master unit has a timer that counts the time set by the resident, and if the entrance slave unit receives a call operation before the timer counts up, the remaining time of the timer at the time of receiving the call. It has a master unit control unit that generates a message voice containing information and makes a sound from the entrance slave unit , and an external communication unit that enables communication with a mobile terminal carried by a resident via a public communication network. ,
An intercom device characterized in that the time of the timer of the living room master unit can be set and changed by the mobile terminal via a public communication network . The living room master unit has a voice storage unit that stores the sound collected by the entrance slave unit.
The master unit control unit generates and sounds a message voice notifying the remaining time of the timer, and then sounds a predetermined announcement prompting the input of a message from the entrance slave unit, and the entrance slave unit collects the message. intercom apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that to store the audio and sound to the audio storage unit. An intercom device having an entrance slave unit for a visitor to call a resident and a living room master unit for a resident to answer a call from the entrance slave unit.
The room master unit includes a message voice storage unit that stores a message voice including a predetermined guidance message for determining whether the visitor is a courier.
A message determination unit that determines whether or not a delivery company is a delivery company based on the message content of a visitor collected by the entrance slave unit,
A timer that counts the time set by the resident,
It has a master unit control unit that selects the message voice and makes a sound from the entrance slave unit.
If the entrance slave unit receives a call operation before the timer counts up, the master unit control unit causes the entrance slave unit to sound the guidance message.
After that, when the message discriminating unit determines that the visitor is a courier from the voice information of the visitor collected by the entrance slave unit, a message voice including the remaining time information of the timer at that time is generated. Make a sound from the entrance slave unit
An intercom device characterized in that when it is determined that the company is not a courier, a specific message voice that does not include the remaining time of the timer is selected and the sound is reported from the entrance slave unit.

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