JPH0630834A - Home delivery parcel receiving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the trouble-shooting upon occurrence of a trouble by providing an image pick-up means for picking up an image from the inside of a parcel receiving device, and an image recording means for recording a picked-up image. CONSTITUTION:A parcel receiving device includes detecting means 13 for determining whether a parcel is received in a parcel receiving part or not, a detecting means 14 for detecting opening of a parcel take-out door 12, and a clock 6 for simultaneously recording the times at which both detecting means 13, 14 are operated, in an image recording device 4. When the detecting means 13 which are an infrared sensor, a weight sensor and the like, detect a parcel received in a parcel receiving part 10, a control part operates a camera 3 so as to record the image of the parcel on the image recording device 4 together with time data. Further, when the parcel take-out door 12 is opened, it is also recorded in the image recording device 4, and accordingly, images at the parcel take-in and -out times are successively recorded. Further, the data are can be seen on a monitor 7 which is connected to the image recording device 4 through the intermediary of a connector 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parcel delivery receiving device capable of receiving parcels delivered to a home even when absent.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art This type of home delivery receiving device is designed such that after a package deliverer puts a package in the package receiving device, the package door is closed, the door is locked, and a receipt stamp is impressed. A person opens the baggage take-out door to receive the baggage.In order to prevent troubles, generally, only when the sensor detects the baggage in the baggage receiving device, the baggage entrance door is locked and stamped. Is possible.

[0003]

However, the package detection by the above-mentioned sensor can detect whether or not a package has been loaded, but cannot detect how many packages have been loaded. It is possible to stamp and return only the receipt stamp without carrying it, and conversely the recipient claims that the package was not delivered even though the package was delivered and the recipient receives it. It is not possible to prove which of the two claims is correct in this case.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a parcel delivery receiving device which can easily investigate a problem when a trouble occurs.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention, however, is characterized in that it is provided with a photographing means for photographing the inside of the cargo receiving device and a video recording means for recording the image obtained by the photographing means. There is.

[0006]

According to the present invention, by looking at the image recorded in the image recording means, it is possible to reproduce the state of loading and unloading the luggage into and from the cargo receiving device to determine whether the luggage is loaded or unloaded. Can be determined. It should be noted that it is not always necessary to take an image of the inside of the load receiving device by the image pickup means, for example, at the time of detection of a package
It is only necessary when the luggage entrance door is opened or locked and when the luggage extraction door is opened or closed, that is, when the luggage is to be taken in and out.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the illustrated embodiments. As shown in FIG. 2, this parcel delivery receiving device 1 has three doors 11, 11, 11 corresponding to respective luggage loading ports on the front surface.
3, a luggage take-out door 12 is provided on the side surface, and the inside is, as shown in FIG.
It is divided into 10, and each door 11 has only a lock switch 15, and the unlocking of the door 11 is an unlocking switch that is out of reach of the delivery person or an unlocking switch by a code number. Alternatively, the lock provided on the luggage take-out door 12 is unlocked.

Inside the home delivery receiving device 1, there are provided a lighting device 2 for internal lighting and a camera 3 as a photographing means. At this time, if there are several load receiving parts 10, 10, 10 as in the illustrated example, any of the load receiving parts 10 of each stage can be photographed.
As shown in FIG. 3, the camera 3 and each of the cargo receiving portions 10 are connected by an image transmission tube 30 having a lens at the tip, or as shown in FIG. 4, the cameras 3 are arranged on the cargo receiving portions 10 at each stage. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 5, the camera 3 is arranged at a position where all the cargo receiving portions 10 partitioned by the net rack can be photographed.

Then, as shown in FIG.
Image storage device 4 for recording images taken by
A detecting means 13 for detecting whether or not a load is loaded in the load receiving portion 10 of each stage, a detecting means 14 for detecting that the load / unload door 12 is opened, and these detecting means 13, 1
There is provided a clock 6 for simultaneously recording the time when 4 is operated in the video storage device 4. In the figure, 5 is the detection means 1
Based on the outputs of 3 and 14, it is a control unit that operates the camera 3 and records the captured image in the image storage device 4 together with the time display information by the clock 6.

In the parcel delivery receiving apparatus 1, however, at the time when the load is detected in the loading receiving section 10 by the detecting means 13 including an infrared sensor and a weight sensor,
The control unit 5 operates the camera 3 to record the image together with the time information in the image storage device 4, and even when the luggage take-out door 12 is opened, the control unit 5 operates the camera 3 to display the image and the time. Information is recorded in the video storage device 4. The images of when luggage is taken in and out are recorded sequentially. The information recorded in the video storage device 4 can be viewed on the monitor 7 connected via the connector 8 as necessary.

[0011] Therefore, whether the delivery person has returned the package without delivering the package and only the receipt stamp, or whether the recipient has received the package but claims that it has not been delivered When such a trouble occurs, the information recorded in the video storage device 4 is reproduced, and the home delivery receiving device 1
This trouble can be solved simply by checking the number of items in the bag over time. In other words, while comparing the video when the delivery person delivered the package with the video before that,
By comparing the image at the time when the recipient opens the package take-out door 12 and takes out the package with the previous images, it is determined whether the delivery person has put in the package or whether the recipient has taken out the package. In addition, since the information to be reproduced is an image, the shape of the luggage can be specified, and thus more reliable information can be obtained.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, by watching the image recorded in the image recording means, it is possible to reproduce the loading / unloading state of the luggage in / from the cargo receiving device to determine whether the luggage is loaded or not. It is possible to determine whether or not the package has been taken out, and for this reason, it is possible to easily investigate the problem when a trouble occurs with respect to whether or not the package is delivered.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the above.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of another example of the above.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of still another example of the same.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Home delivery receiving device 3 Camera 4 Video storage device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A home delivery cargo receiving device comprising: a photographing means for photographing the inside of the cargo receiving device; and a video recording means for recording the video obtained by the photographing means.