JP6249409B2 - Elevator guide device and elevator guide method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator guide device that smoothly guides passengers in a hall to a car to be boarded, and an elevator guide method.

  In response to the destination call registration where the passenger inputs the destination floor on the landing destination operation panel, the elevator group management device selects the responding car, and the name of the car that the passenger should ride is displayed on the display of the landing destination operation panel An elevator system that improves the operation efficiency of an elevator car by displaying it is conventionally known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). When the number of destination call registrations in the same direction registered from the same floor matches the limit value that can be boarded in one car set for each floor, the group management device disclosed in Patent Document 1 From the passenger who registered the call to another car.

  Further, in order to guide passengers to the assigned car, the elevator control device has conventionally been an elevator landing display device that performs the same display on the display unit of the landing destination operation panel and the assigned car landing indicator. (See, for example, Patent Document 2). The control device for the elevator hall display device disclosed in Patent Document 2 displays the car number on the display unit and the hall indicator of the landing destination operation panel, and colors the car name in the same color. it's shown.

International Publication No. 2008/120345 JP 2001-348170 A

However, the prior art has the following problems.
Both the elevator system shown in Patent Literature 1 and the elevator hall display device shown in Patent Literature 2 improve the operation efficiency by displaying the name of the car number on which the passenger should ride on the passenger. . However, since many passengers with different destination floors are waiting at the landing, a passenger who gets in the car first does not necessarily get off after a passenger who gets on the car later.

  For this reason, when a passenger at the back of a car on which a large number of passengers are getting out of the car, it is necessary to get off the other passengers. Also, passengers at the landing cannot get into the car until the passenger who gets off gets off. Thereby, a passenger cannot get on and off the car smoothly, and the stop time of the elevator becomes long. As a result, the operation efficiency of the elevator was reduced.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and is an elevator that can easily guide passengers to an elevator standby position where passengers should ride and can smoothly get on and off the car. It is an object of the present invention to obtain a guide device and an elevator guide method.

  The elevator guidance apparatus according to the present invention registers a destination floor set by a passenger as a call registration by a destination registration board provided at an elevator hall, determines an assigned car on which the passenger should ride based on the call registration, and In addition to managing the operation of the elevator, the floor information corresponding to the destination floor is output at every timing when the passenger sets the destination floor using the destination registration board, and passengers who get on the assigned car at the timing when the assigned car arrives at the landing A group management device that outputs information on the number of passengers per destination floor grouped for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, boarding the assigned car determined by the group management device based on the floor information output from the group management device The waiting position at the landing for the landing and the guide path from the destination registration board to the waiting position, the waiting position determining unit, the destination floor output from the group management device Based on the number of passengers information, in accordance with the stop floor order after the assigned car departs from the landing, the passenger corresponding to the destination floor that stops first is boarded later, and the boarding order to be guided in the assigned car is determined. Until the boarding order determination unit and the assigned car arrive at the landing, the standby position display and guidance displayed to the passengers using the standby position and the guide path determined by the standby position determination unit based on the floor information Once the assigned car has arrived at the landing, the road display is determined from the standby position to the assigned car using the boarding order determined by the boarding order determination unit based on the passenger number information for each destination floor. A display image determination unit that determines the boarding guidance display as a landing display image, and a landing display image determined by the display image determination unit provided for the landing, is projected toward the landing, and for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, Appropriate And an image output unit for notifying the aircraft position and appropriate ride sequence.

  Further, the elevator guidance method according to the present invention registers the destination floor set by the passenger in the storage unit as a call registration by the destination registration board provided at the elevator hall, and assigns the assigned car to which the passenger should ride based on the call registration. A group management device that determines and manages the operation of a plurality of elevators, and a landing side guidance process that informs the appropriate waiting position and the appropriate boarding order for each passenger heading to the same destination floor based on the output from the group management device An elevator guidance method applied to an elevator guidance device comprising: a group management device, wherein floor information corresponding to a destination floor is obtained at each timing when a passenger sets a destination floor using a destination registration board. The floor information output step to be output to the landing side guidance processing unit and the passengers who get on the assigned car at the timing when the assigned car arrives at the landing are directed to the same destination floor. There is a grouping information output step for grouping and summing up each passenger and outputting the totaled result as the number of passengers per destination floor to the landing side guidance processing unit. In the landing side guidance processing unit, the floor information output Based on the floor information output in the step, the standby position determination that determines the standby position at the landing for boarding the assigned car determined by the group management device and the guide path from the destination registration board to the standby position Based on the number of passengers per destination floor output in the step, grouping information output step, according to the stop floor order after the assigned car departs from the landing, passengers corresponding to the destination floor that stops first will get on later In this way, the waiting position determining unit determines the boarding order to be guided in the assigned car, and until the assigned car arrives at the landing, the standby position determining unit Using the determined standby position and taxiway, the standby position display and taxiway display to be displayed for passengers are determined as landing display images, and after the assigned car arrives at the landing, the number of passengers per destination floor A display image determination step for determining a boarding guidance display from the standby position to the assigned car as a hall display image using the boarding order determined by the boarding order determination unit based on the information, and a display image determination step provided in the hall The platform display image determined in step (1) is projected toward the platform and has an image output step for notifying the appropriate standby position and the appropriate boarding order for each passenger heading to the same destination floor.

  According to the present invention, based on the call registration in which the destination floor is set by the passenger, the cars are grouped and assigned to each passenger on the same destination floor, and further, from the standby position at the landing, from the standby position to the assigned car The taxiway can be projected and displayed according to the destination floor group. As a result, it is possible to obtain an elevator guide device and an elevator guide method that can easily guide the passenger to the elevator standby position where the passenger should ride and can smoothly get on and off the car.

1 is an overall view showing a landing-side elevator guide device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. It is an enlarged view which shows the destination registration board of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows a series of operation | movement from a passenger performing call registration to being guided in a cage | basket | car using the hall guidance apparatus by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows a series of operation | movement from a passenger performing call registration to being guided in a cage | basket | car using the hall guidance apparatus by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a general view which shows the cage | basket | car guide apparatus by this Embodiment 2. It is a flowchart which shows a series of operation | movement until a passenger is guide | induced to the standing position in a car using the car guide apparatus by this Embodiment 2. FIG.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is an overall view showing a landing-side elevator guide apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, at an elevator hall 1 (hereinafter simply referred to as a hall 1), a destination registration board 2 (only one is shown in FIG. 1) that can be called and registered by setting a desired destination floor by a passenger. ) Is installed. The passenger 3 at the hall 1 performs call registration by setting a desired destination floor using the destination registration board 2.

  FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing the destination registration board 2 of FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the destination registration board 2 is a numeric keypad button that can directly input a destination floor. The destination registration board 2 has a numeric keypad part 2a and a display part 2b provided on the upper part of the numeric keypad part 2a.

  The numeric keypad 2a is a push button type button. Passenger 3a presses a button on a desired destination floor to perform call registration. In the first embodiment, a push button type button is used for the numeric keypad 2a. However, a touch panel type button may be used.

  The display unit 2b displays the destination floor number input by the passenger 3a. The passenger 3a can confirm whether or not the destination floor that the passenger 3a has pressed is correct on the display unit 2b.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the hall guidance device (guidance device) includes a hall side guidance processing unit 10, an image output unit 20, and an image input unit 30. The destination registration board 2 and the hall side guidance processing unit 10 are connected to the group management device 40. However, the relationship between the destination registration board 2 and the group management device 40 is not shown in FIG.

  The group management device 40 is installed in the machine room and performs operation management with a plurality of elevator devices as a group. In addition, the group management device 40 registers the destination floor set by the passenger 3 on the destination registration board 2 as a call registration in a storage unit (not shown). Based on the call registration from the destination registration board 2, the group management device 40 assigns an appropriate car 4 (that is, the assigned car 4 on which the passenger 3a should ride) and dispatches the car to the hall 1 where the call registration is performed. When the passenger 3 a performs call registration from the destination registration board 2, the group management device 40 includes information on the call registration (call registration information) and information on the floor that the passenger 3 a has input to the destination registration board 2 ( Floor information) is transmitted to the hall side guidance processing unit 10. The call registration information and the floor information are transmitted to the landing side guidance processing unit 10 at each timing when the passenger 3 sets the destination floor by the destination registration board 2.

  The hall-side guidance processing unit 10 is a device that notifies an appropriate standby position and an appropriate boarding order at the hall 1 for each passenger heading to the same destination floor based on the output from the group management device 40. The hall side guidance processing unit 10 includes a hall guidance display determination unit 11 and a hall passenger detection unit 12. The hall side guidance processing unit 10 operates in conjunction with the image output unit 20 and the image input unit 30.

  The hall guidance display determination unit 11 is connected to the image output unit 20. The hall guidance display determination unit 11 includes a standby position determination unit 110, a display image determination unit 111, a projection image processing unit 112, and a boarding order determination unit 113.

  When the standby position determination unit 110 receives the floor information from the group management device 40, the place 5 (hereinafter referred to as the standby position 5) where the passenger 3a who performed call registration waits at the landing 1 of the car 4 to be boarded. decide. Furthermore, the standby position determination unit 110 sets the standby position of the passenger 3 to the same destination floor in a place that is gathered in one place for each passenger heading to the same destination floor.

  As shown in FIG. 1, when the car 4 moves upward, the standby position 5 of the 3F passenger 3c that gets off the car 4 first is the standby position of the passenger 3b of the 7F that gets off the car 4 later. It may be set at a position farther from the car 4 than 5. That is, the standby position determination unit 110 sets the standby position as a different position for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, and appropriately sets the distance from the car 4 to the standby position according to the disembarking order as necessary. It is also possible.

  In addition, the standby position determination unit 110 determines the standby position 5 of the passenger 3a and determines the guide path 6 through which the passenger 3a moves from the destination registration board 2 to the standby position 5. The standby position determination unit 110 sends the determined information on the standby position 5 (standby position information) and the information on the guide path 6 (guide path information) to the display image determination unit 111.

  The display image determination unit 111 determines information on a hall display image to be displayed on the hall 1. The display image determination unit 111 determines the standby position display 5a and the taxiway display 6a to be displayed on the landing 1 based on the standby position information and the taxiway information received from the standby position determination unit 110.

  The display image determination unit 111 determines the standby position display 5a from the standby position information. Here, the standby position display 5a is displayed at the standby position 5 where the passenger 3a should wait, and includes a display indicating what floor the destination floor is. FIG. 1 illustrates a standby position display 5a that is identified and displayed for two destination floors, the third floor and the seventh floor. More specifically, the standby position display 5a shown in FIG. 1 is a substantially circular frame surrounding each passenger 3b, 3c heading to the same destination floor that has already been registered and is waiting. A destination floor is displayed around the circular frame and inside the substantially circular frame.

  Further, the display image determination unit 111 determines the guideway display 6a from the guideway information. The guideway display 6a displays the guideway 6 that guides the passenger 3a who registered the destination floor from the destination registration board 2 to the corresponding standby position 5. The guideway display 6a includes, for example, an arrow display connecting the destination registration board 2 to the standby position 5 as shown in FIG. The display image determination unit 111 sends the determined information on the standby position display 5a (standby position display information) and the information on the guidance path display 6a (guidance path display information) to the projection image processing unit 112 as a landing display image.

  Note that the display image determination unit 111 not only receives the standby position information and the taxiway information received from the standby position determination unit 110 but also the boarding order information received from the boarding order determination unit 113 described later and the landing described later according to the situation. The hall display image to be displayed on the hall 1 is determined in consideration of the passenger standby position deviation information received from the passenger detector 12.

  The projection image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected toward the hall 1 based on the standby position display information and the taxiway display information received from the display image determination unit 111. The projection image processing unit 112 sends the created image to the image output unit 20.

  As the image output unit 20, for example, a projector can be used. Hereinafter, the image output unit 20 will be described as the projector 20. In this example, one projector 20 is installed on the ceiling of the hall 1. The projector 20 projects the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 onto the hall 1.

  In this example, as shown in FIG. 1, the projector 20 displays an arrow, which is a guideway display 6 a that connects the destination registration board 2 to the standby position 5, with respect to the passenger 3 a that has registered for call registration. Is displayed. The guideway display 6a is set so as to disappear when a certain time elapses. Here, the fixed time is a time set in advance at the time of design. Note that the timing at which the guideway display 6a disappears may be set to a timing at which it is confirmed that the passenger 3a has arrived at the standby position 5 from an image acquired from the image input unit 30.

  On the other hand, the projector 20 performs a standby position display 5a as shown in FIG. That is, a substantially circular frame surrounding the passengers 3b and 3c heading to the same destination floor and displaying the destination floor around and inside is displayed at the feet of the passengers 3b and 3c. The standby position display 5a is displayed until the car 4 arrives at the hall 1 and the passenger 3 in the standby position display 5a gets on the car 4.

  Here, when the standby position display 5a on the destination floor of the passenger 3 coming later is already projected on the landing 1, the passenger 3 coming later does not perform call registration from the destination registration board 2, There is a risk of entering the standby position display 5a, which is the same destination floor. At this time, the call is not registered in the group management device 40.

  In order to detect the passenger 3 entering the standby position display 5a that is the same destination floor without performing call registration from the destination registration board 2, the landing passenger detection unit 12 is connected to the landing 1 via the image input unit 30. Images are acquired and the number of passengers 3 in the standby position display 5a is analyzed for each destination floor.

  The landing passenger detection unit 12 is connected to the image input unit 30. The landing passenger detection unit 12 includes a passenger image processing unit 120, a passenger number detection unit 121, and a protrusion detection unit 122.

  The passenger image processing unit 120 acquires the image of the hall 1 through the image input unit 30 from the timing when the first call registration information is received from the group management device 40 until the car 4 is dispatched to the hall 1. Keep doing.

  For the image input unit 30, for example, a camera can be used. Hereinafter, the image input unit 30 will be described as the camera 30. The camera 30 is installed on the ceiling of the hall 1 and acquires an image of the hall 1 in the field of view in real time. In this example, one camera 30 is installed and acquires an image as a moving image. For this reason, the passenger image processing unit 120 converts the moving image acquired from the camera 30 into a still image and passes it to the passenger number detection unit 121 and the protrusion detection unit 122.

  The passenger number detection unit 121 counts the number of passengers 3 in the standby position display 5a for each passenger heading to the same destination floor based on an image that has been subjected to still image processing from the camera 30 via the passenger image processing unit 120. The number information in the position display is sent to the group management device 40. The group management device 40 compares the information on the number of persons in the standby position display with the number of call registrations made from the destination registration board 2 for each destination floor, and more than the number of call registrations made from the destination registration board 2. When there is a lot of information on the number of people in the standby position display, the difference in the number of people is newly registered as a call registration of the destination floor corresponding to the standby position display 5a.

  The protrusion detection unit 122 detects whether or not the passenger 3 is about to protrude from the standby position display 5a based on the image subjected to the still image processing from the camera 30 via the passenger image processing unit 120. Here, that the passenger 3 is about to protrude from the standby position display 5a is a state in which the passenger 3 is stepping around a substantially circular frame surrounding the passengers 3b and 3c. That is, there is a possibility that the display of the destination floor displayed around the substantially circular frame may become invisible by the passenger 3.

  When the protrusion detection unit 122 detects that the passenger 3 is about to protrude from the standby position display 5a, the protrusion detection unit 122 can surround the passenger who is about to protrude based on the detected image. The amount of display expansion is sent to the display image determination unit 111 as passenger standby position deviation information.

  The display image determination unit 111 determines a corrected standby position display for correcting the size of the standby position display 5a based on the received passenger standby position deviation information. The corrected standby position display is determined so that the display of the destination floor displayed around the frame surrounding the periphery of the passenger 3 projected by the projector 20 can be surely seen from the passenger 3. In other words, the corrected standby position display prevents the display of the destination floor from being hidden by the passenger 3 and becoming invisible. The display image determination unit 111 sends correction standby position display information (correction standby position display information) to the projection image processing unit 112.

  The projection image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected toward the hall 1 based on the correction standby position display information received from the display image determination unit 111. The projection image processing unit 112 sends the created image to the projector 20. The projector 20 projects the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 onto the hall 1.

  When the car 4 arrives at the landing 1, the group management device 40 counts call registrations so as to group by passengers heading to the same destination floor, thereby corresponding to the registered destination floor and destination floor. Information indicating the correspondence relationship with the number of passengers to be performed (passenger number information for each destination floor) is generated, and this information is sent to the boarding order determination unit 113 and the passenger number detection unit 121. The boarding order determination unit 113 determines the boarding order to be guided in the car 4 in order from the passenger heading to the further away destination floor based on the passenger number information for each destination floor. That is, the boarding order determining unit 113 determines the boarding order so that the passenger 3 corresponding to the destination floor that stops first gets on the board according to the stop floor order after leaving the hall 1. The boarding order determination unit 113 sends information about the boarding order (boarding order information) to the display image determination unit 111.

  The display image determination unit 111 determines the boarding taxiway display from the boarding order information. The boarding taxiway display displays the boarding taxiway from the standby position 5 to the car 4 in the order based on the boarding order information. The boarding taxiway display includes, for example, an arrow connecting the standby position 5 to the car 4 as in the taxiway display 6a.

  When the number-of-passengers detection unit 121 receives the number-of-passengers information for each destination floor from the group management device 40, the passenger number detection unit 121 counts the number of people who have boarded the car 4 from the images processed from the camera 30 via the passenger image processing unit 120. start. The passenger number detection unit 121 displays a boarding taxiway display on the display image determination unit 111 when the counted number matches the number of people on the destination floor currently guided in the car 4 in the passenger number information on each destination floor. Send image switching information to switch.

  Upon receiving the image switching information, the display image determination unit 111 turns off the waiting position display 5a corresponding to the boarding guide display and the boarding guide display and turns on the boarding guide display from the next standby position display 5a. Boarding taxiway display lighting switching information is sent to the projection image processing unit 112.

  The projection image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected toward the hall 1 based on the boarding taxiway display information and the boarding taxiway display lighting switching information received from the display image determination unit 111. The projection image processing unit 112 sends the created image to the projector 20. The projector 20 projects the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 onto the hall 1.

  Next, using FIG. 3A and 3B, the operation | movement until it gets in the cage | basket | car 4 after the passenger 3 performs call registration using a boarding guidance apparatus is demonstrated. 3A and 3B are flowcharts showing a series of operations from when the passenger 3 performs call registration to being guided into the car 4 using the hall guidance apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. 3A and 3B show one flowchart divided into two drawings, and the 1-4 parts described in FIG. 3A and the 1-4 parts described in FIG. 3B are continued.

  As shown in FIG. 3, when a call registration operation is performed from the destination registration board 2 by the passenger 3a, the group management device 40 transmits the floor information to the standby position determination unit 110 (step S101, floor information output step). ). The standby position determination unit 110 determines the standby position 5 of the passenger 3a based on the floor information, and determines the guide path 6 from the destination registration board 2 to the standby position 5. The standby position determination unit 110 sends the determined standby position information and guideway information to the display image determination unit 111 (step S102, standby position determination step).

  The display image determination unit 111 determines the standby position display 5a and the taxiway display 6a to be projected to the hall 1 based on the received standby position information and taxiway information. Further, the display image determination unit 111 sends the determined standby position display information and guideway display information to the projection image processing unit 112 (step S103, display image determination step).

  The projection image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected on the hall 1 based on the standby position display information and the guideway display information (step S104). Here, the projection image processing unit 112 displays all the standby positions for which call registration has been completed with respect to the standby position, and for the taxiway with respect to the passenger 3a whose destination floor is set by the destination registration board 2. An image can be created so as to display a guide path for guiding to a standby position corresponding to the destination floor.

  In step S104, the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 is output from the projector 20 (step S105, image output step). Then, the passenger 3a moves into the standby position display 5a according to the instruction output from the projector 20, and waits until the car 4 arrives at the landing 1.

  After step S105, the hall passenger detection unit 12 checks whether or not the car 4 has arrived at the hall 1 through the group management device 40 (step S106). When the car 4 has not arrived at the hall 1, the hall passenger detection unit 12 does not perform call registration from the destination registration board 2 and detects the passenger 3 in the standby position display 5 a on the destination floor from the camera 30. To do. The passenger number detection unit 121 receives the standby position display 5a from the still image acquired through the passenger image processing unit 120 until the car 4 arrives at the landing 1 from the timing when the first call registration information is received from the group management device 40. The number of passengers 3 is counted (step S111).

  The passenger number detection unit 121 sends the counted number information in the standby position display to the group management device 40 (step S112). The group management device 40 compares the waiting position display number information and the number of call registrations made from the destination registration board 2 for each floor (step S113).

  In step S113, if the number-of-persons information in the standby position display matches the number of call registrations made from the destination registration board 2, the process returns to the previous step S105. On the other hand, in step S113, if the number of persons in the standby position display and the number of call registrations made from the destination registration board 2 do not match, the group management device 40 sets the corresponding floor as the destination floor and displays the standby position. A new call registration corresponding to the difference between the internal number information and the call registration number is performed (step S114). When call registration is completed in step S114, the process returns to the previous step S105.

  Moreover, the protrusion detection part 122 performs the process of step S115-S119 as a process performed in parallel with the process of previous step S111-S114. First, the protrusion detection unit 122 confirms whether the passenger 3 is within the standby position display 5a from the still image acquired via the passenger image processing unit 120 (step S115).

  If it is determined in step S115 that the passenger 3 does not protrude from the standby position display 5a, the process returns to step S105. On the other hand, when it is detected in step S115 that the passenger 3 is about to protrude from the standby position display 5a, the protrusion detection unit 122 displays passenger standby position deviation information corresponding to the amount of protrusion from the standby position display. The image is sent to the display image determination unit 111 (step S116).

  Based on the received passenger standby position deviation information, the display image determination unit 111 performs a correction standby position display for correcting the passenger 3 that is about to protrude the size of the standby position display 5a in the standby position display. decide. The display image determination unit 111 sends the determined correction standby position display information to the projection image processing unit 112 (step S117).

  The projected image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected onto the hall 1 based on the corrected standby position display information (step S118). In step S118, the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 is output from the projector 20 (step S119). If an image is output from the projector 20 which projects to a passenger at step S119, it will return to previous step S105.

  On the other hand, when the car 4 arrives at the landing 1 in the previous step S106, the group management device 40 informs the boarding order determination unit 113 and the passenger number detection unit 121 at the same destination floor at the timing when the car 4 arrives at the landing 1. Passenger number information for each destination floor obtained by grouping and counting passengers heading to the destination is sent (step S121, grouping information output step). The boarding order determination unit 113 determines the boarding order based on the information on the number of passengers per destination floor. On the other hand, the passenger number detection unit 121 determines the timing of image switching based on the number of passengers information for each destination floor. The boarding order determination unit 113 sends the boarding order information to the display image determination unit 111, and the passenger number detection unit 121 sends the image switching information to the display image determination unit 111 (step S122, boarding order determination step).

  The display image determination unit 111 determines boarding taxiway display for guiding the passenger 3 into the car 4 based on the boarding order information, and determines switching of boarding taxiway display based on the image switching information. The display image determination unit 111 sends the boarding taxiway display information and boarding taxiway display lighting switching information to the projection image processing unit 112 (step S123).

  The projection image processing unit 112 creates an image to be projected onto the hall 1 based on the boarding taxiway display information (step S124). In step S124, the image created by the projection image processing unit 112 is output from the projector 20 (step S125). The passenger 3a moves from the standby position 5 into the car 4 according to the instruction output from the projector 20 (step S126). The image projected in step S125 turns on and off the boarding taxiway display based on the boarding taxiway display lighting switching information. Thereafter, when all the passengers 3 get into the car 4, the operation of the hall guidance device ends.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, the hall guidance device that can notify the passengers at the hall of the appropriate standby position and the appropriate boarding order is provided. In the platform guidance device, the standby position determination unit determines the standby position at the landing of the passenger who performed call registration based on the floor information received from the group management device, and determines the guide path to the standby position. ing. In addition, the display of the standby position and the taxiway determined by the standby position determination unit is projected from the projector provided at the landing to the landing. By providing such a configuration, a passenger who has registered for call can go to the standby position of the elevator hall to ride by simply following the taxiway.

  Moreover, in the hall guidance device, the boarding order determination unit determines the boarding order to guide in the car in order from the passengers heading to the more distant floors based on the passenger number information for each destination floor received from the group management device. Yes. Further, a boarding guide display for guiding passengers into the car is projected from a projector provided at the boarding place in an order corresponding to the boarding order determined by the boarding order determining unit.

  By providing such a configuration, a passenger who gets off the car quickly gets on a position close to the entrance of the car, so that the passenger can get off the car smoothly. Also, passengers who get in after the passengers get off from the car get on according to the guidance, so that they can get on the car smoothly. As a result, the passenger can be easily guided to the elevator hall where the passenger should ride, and can smoothly get on and off the car.

  In the hall guidance device, the passenger number detection unit sends the number information in the standby position display that counts the number of people in the destination registration display displayed on the hall to the group management device based on the captured image of the hall. Further, the group management device compares the registered number of registered calls with the information on the number of people in the standby position display, and registers the difference by calling. With such a configuration, it is possible to reliably perform call registration for passengers who have entered the destination registration display without performing call registration.

  Moreover, in the hall guidance device, the protrusion detection unit detects whether there is a passenger who is about to protrude from the standby position display based on the captured image of the hall. In addition, when the protrusion detection unit determines that the passenger is about to protrude from the destination registration display, the display image determination unit corrects the size of the standby position display. By providing such a configuration, the passenger can surely confirm the destination floor of the standby position display. As a result, it is possible to prevent the passenger from going to the standby position on the wrong destination floor.

  In the first embodiment, when the passenger 3 gets on the car 4, the boarding guidance display is projected from the projector 20, but a speaker may be provided at the hall and guided by voice from the speaker. Moreover, you may guide by both boarding taxiway display and an audio | voice.

  In the first embodiment, the projector 20 is installed on the ceiling of the hall 1. However, the projector 20 may be located on the wall as long as it can project an image on the hall 1. Similarly, the camera 30 is installed on the ceiling of the hall 1, but may be provided on the wall as long as the entire hall 1 can be photographed. Furthermore, the number of projectors 20 and cameras 30 is not limited to one, and two or more may be provided.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
In the first embodiment, the example in which the guide device is provided only on the landing 1 side has been described. On the other hand, in the second embodiment, an example in which a car guide device is provided in the car 4 in addition to the hall guide device of the first embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 4 is an overall view showing a car-side guide device according to the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, the car guidance device includes a car side guidance processing unit 50, an image output unit 60, and an image input unit 70. The car side guidance processing unit 50 is connected to the group management device 40.

  When the car 4 arrives at the hall 1, the group management device 40 sends the passenger number information for each destination floor to the boarding order determination unit 113 and the passenger number detection unit 121 and also to the car side guidance processing unit 50.

  The image output unit 60 has the same configuration as the image output unit 20 of the first embodiment. Hereinafter, the image output unit 60 is referred to as a projector 60. The image input unit 70 has the same configuration as that of the image input unit 30 of the first embodiment. Hereinafter, the image input unit 70 is referred to as a camera 70.

  The car side guidance processing unit 50 includes a car guidance display determination unit 51 and a passenger detection unit 52 in the car. The car side guidance processing unit 50 operates in conjunction with the projector 60 and the camera 70.

  The car guidance display determination unit 51 is connected to the projector 60. The car guidance display determination unit 51 includes a standing position determination unit (in-car standing position determination unit) 510, a display image determination unit 511, and a projection image processing unit 512.

  The standing position determination unit 510 determines the standing position 7 of the passenger 3 in the car 4 based on the information on the number of passengers per destination floor received from the group management device 40. The standing position determination unit 510 provides information on the number of passengers per destination floor so that the passenger 3 getting off from the car 4 first stands closer to the entrance 4a of the car 4 than the passenger 3 getting off from the car 4 later. Based on the above, the standing position 7 is determined. When the standing position determination unit 510 determines the standing position 7, the passage 4 b connected to the entrance 4 a is opened in the center of the car 4 in consideration of the passenger 3 who gets on the middle floor ( (See FIG. 4).

  The standing position determination unit 510 determines the standing position 7 of the passenger 3 and also determines the guide path 8 that guides the passenger 3 who gets on the hall 1 to the standing position 7 corresponding to the destination floor. The standing position determination unit 510 sends information on the standing position 7 (standing position information) and information on the guidance path 8 (guidance path information) to the display image determination unit 511.

  The display image determination unit 511 determines information on a display image to be displayed in the car 4. The display image determination unit 511 determines the standing position display 7 a and the guidance path display 8 a to be displayed in the car 4 based on the standing position information and the guidance path information received from the standing position determination unit 510.

  The display image determination unit 511 determines the standing position display 7a from the standing position information. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the standing position display 7 a may be a display in which the design projected on the floor of the car 4 is changed for each group heading to the same destination floor. In addition, as the standing position display 7a, a display for changing the color projected on the floor of the car 4 and a display for projecting the number of the destination floor onto the floor of the car 4 can be considered for each group toward the same destination floor.

  In addition, the display image determination unit 511 determines the taxiway display 8a from the taxiway information. The guideway display 8a displays the guideway 8 for guiding the passenger 3 from the entrance 4a to the corresponding standing position 7. The guideway display 8a includes, for example, an arrow connecting the entrance / exit 4a to the standing position 7 as shown in FIG. Also, as shown in FIG. 4, the arrow connecting the entrance 4a to the standing position 7 may have the same design as the standing position display 7a. The display image determination unit 511 sends the determined information on the standing position display 7a (standing position display information) and the information on the guidance path display 8a (guidance path display information) to the projection image processing unit 512 as display image information.

  The projection image processing unit 512 creates an image to be projected into the car 4 based on the standing position display information and the guideway display information received from the display image determination unit 511. The projection image processing unit 512 sends the created image to the projector 60. The projector 60 projects the image created by the projection image processing unit 512 onto the floor in the car 4.

  Here, the display image determination unit 511 detects the number of passengers getting into the car 4 from the passenger detection unit 52 in the car. This is because all the passengers 3 of the group heading to the same destination floor get into the car 4 and then the passenger 3 who enters the car 4 next goes to a different destination floor, so it is necessary to switch the taxiway display 8a. Because there is. The display image determination unit 511 includes a passenger image processing unit 520 and a passenger number detection unit 521.

  The passenger image processing unit 520 acquires an image of the vicinity of the entrance / exit 4a via the camera 70 from the timing when the number of passengers per destination floor information is received from the group management device 40 until the entrance / exit 4a of the car 4 is closed. to continue.

  The camera 70 is installed on the ceiling in the car 4 and acquires an image near the entrance 4a in real time. In this example, one camera 70 is installed and acquires an image as a moving image. For this reason, the passenger image processing unit 520 converts the moving image acquired from the camera 70 into a still image and passes it to the passenger number detection unit 521.

  The passenger number detection unit 521 counts the number of passengers who have entered the car 4 based on the still image processed image from the camera 70 via the passenger image processing unit 520 and includes the number of passengers per destination floor information. The number of people on the destination floor currently in the car 4 is compared with the count value. When the number of passengers coincides with the number of people on the destination floor in the current car 4 of the passenger number information for each destination floor, the passenger number detection unit 521 causes the display image determination unit 511 to pass the taxiway to the passenger on the next floor. Send the image switching information to switch to.

  The display image determination unit 511 sends standing position display lighting switching information for switching the standing position display 7 a and the guide path display 8 a to the projection image processing unit 512 based on the image switching information. The projection image processing unit 512 creates an image to be projected into the car 4 based on the standing position display lighting switching information in addition to the standing position display information and the guideway display information. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 5, the operation until the car guidance device guides the passenger 3 who has boarded the car 4 to the standing position 7 will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a series of operations until the passenger 3 is guided to the standing position 7 in the car 4 by using the car guide device according to the second embodiment.

  As illustrated in FIG. 5, when the car 4 arrives at the landing 1, the group management device 40 transmits information on the number of passengers for each destination floor to the standing position determination unit 510 and the passenger image processing unit 520 (step S <b> 201).

  In step S201, the standing position determination unit 510 that has received the number-of-passengers information for each destination floor determines the standing position of the passenger 3 in the car 4 for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, and the standing position 7 from the entrance 4a. The taxiway 8 is determined. The standing position determination unit 510 transmits the determined standing position information and taxiway information to the display image determination unit 511 (step S202).

  The display image determining unit 511 determines the standing position display 7a and the guiding path display 8a to be displayed in the car 4 based on the standing position information and the guiding path information. The display image determination unit 511 sends the determined standing position display information and guideway display information to the projection image processing unit 512 (step S203).

  The projection image processing unit 512 creates an image to be displayed in the car 4 based on the standing position display information and the guideway display information (Step S204). In step S204, the image created by the projection image processing unit 512 is output from the projector 60 (step S205). Then, the passenger 3 moves to the standing position 7 in the car 4 according to the instruction output from the projector 60.

  On the other hand, in the previous step S201, the passenger image processing unit 520 that has received the information on the number of passengers for each destination floor converts the moving image acquired from the camera 70 into a still image and passes it to the passenger number detection unit 521 (step S211). ). The passenger number detection unit 521 counts the number of passengers who have entered the car 4 based on the images that have been subjected to the still image processing from the camera 70 via the passenger image processing unit 520, and the number of passengers per destination floor information. (Step S212).

  In step S212, when the counted number of people coincides with the number of passengers per destination floor information, all the passengers heading to the same destination floor that are currently guided get into the car 4, and from the next passenger 3 to a different destination floor. Judge that the passenger is heading. Therefore, the passenger number detection unit 521 sends image switching information for switching the taxiway for passengers on the next floor to the display image determination unit 511 (step S213). The image switching information in step S213 is sent to the previous step S202. The display image determination unit 511 proceeds to the previous step 203 using the standing position display 7a and the guidance path display 8a considering the image switching information as the standing position display information and the guidance path display information. Thereafter, when all the passengers 3 in the hall 1 get into the car 4, the operation of the car guidance device is finished.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, the guidance device is provided with the car guidance device in addition to the hall guidance device. In the car guidance device, the standby position determination unit sets the standing position so that the passenger who gets off from the car first stands near the entrance of the car based on the information on the number of passengers per destination floor received from the group management device. Has been decided. In addition, the standby position determination unit determines the standing position so as to open a passage leading to the entrance / exit in the central portion of the car in consideration of passengers boarding from an intermediate floor.

  With such a configuration, the passenger guided into the car by the hall guidance device can go to the standing position in the car simply by following the guidance path display to the standing position in the car. In addition, even when the car is boarded from the middle, even if the standing position is set to the farthest, a passage leading to the entrance is provided, so the passenger can easily move to the standing position behind it can.

  As a result, it is possible to prevent passengers getting off on the subsequent floor from standing in front of passengers getting off on the previous floor, and to smoothly get on and off the car. Moreover, even when the passenger getting off at the subsequent floor stands in front of the passenger getting off at the previous floor, the passenger can easily get out of the car through the passage leading to the entrance.

  1 landing (elevator landing), 2 destination registration board, 3, 3a, 3b, 3c passengers, 10 landing side guidance processing section, 20, 60 projector (image output section), 30 camera (image acquisition section), 40 group management Device, 110 standby position determination unit, 111,511 display image determination unit, 113 boarding order determination unit, 121 passenger number detection unit, 122 protrusion detection unit, 510 standing position determination unit (car standing position determination unit)

Claims (6)

The destination floor set by the passenger is registered as a call registration by the destination registration board provided at the elevator hall, the assigned car that the passenger should ride is determined based on the call registration, and the operation of a plurality of elevators is managed. , Each time the passenger sets the destination floor by the destination registration board, the floor information corresponding to the destination floor is output, and passengers who get on the assigned car at the timing when the assigned car arrives at the landing are displayed. A group management device that outputs information on the number of passengers per destination floor, grouped for each passenger heading to the same destination floor,
Based on the floor information output from the group management device, a standby position at the landing for boarding the assigned car determined by the group management device, and a guide path from the destination registration board to the standby position And a standby position determination unit for determining,
Based on the information on the number of passengers per destination floor output from the group management device, passengers corresponding to the destination floor that stops first are boarded later according to the stop floor order after the assigned car departs from the landing. A boarding order determination unit for determining the boarding order to be guided in the assigned car,
Until the assigned car arrives at the landing, a standby position display is displayed for the passenger using the standby position and the taxiway determined by the standby position determination unit based on the floor information. And the taxiway display is determined as a landing display image, and after the assigned car has arrived at the landing, the boarding order determined by the boarding order determination unit based on the number of passengers per destination floor is used. A display image determination unit that determines a boarding guidance display from the standby position to the assigned car as the landing display image, and the landing display image that is provided in the landing and determined by the display image determination unit is displayed on the landing An elevator guidance device comprising an image output unit that projects an appropriate waiting position and an appropriate boarding order for each passenger who projects toward the same destination floor. Based on the image input unit that acquires the image of the landing, and the image acquired by the image input unit, the number of passengers in each standby position display determined for each passenger heading to the same destination floor is detected, and the detection result Further comprising a passenger number detection unit for transmitting to the group management device,
The group management device includes the number of call registrations for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, counted as the passenger number information for each destination floor, and the standby position display detected for each passenger heading to the same destination floor in the passenger number detection unit If there is a floor where the number of waiting passengers is larger than the number of call registrations, the number of differences between the number of call registrations and the number of waiting passengers The elevator guidance apparatus according to claim 1, newly registered as a call registration with the floor as a destination floor. Based on the image acquired by the image input unit, further includes a protrusion detection unit that detects whether there is a passenger that is about to protrude from the standby position display displayed for each passenger heading to the same destination floor,
When the protrusion detection unit determines that there is a passenger who is about to protrude from the standby position display, the display image determination unit includes the passenger who is about to protrude. The elevator guide device according to claim 2, wherein the size of the corresponding standby position display is corrected. A standing position determination unit in a car that determines the standing position of the passenger in the assigned car and the guide path from the entrance / exit of the assigned car to the standing position for each passenger heading to the same destination floor according to the stop floor order;
An in-car display image determination unit that determines a standing position display and a guidance path display to be displayed in the assigned car based on the standing position and the taxiway determined by the standing position determination unit as a car display image. And an in-car image output unit that is provided in the assigned car and projects the landing display image determined by the display image determining unit toward the inside of the assigned car. The elevator guide device according to any one of the above. The elevator guidance device according to claim 4, wherein the standing position determination unit in the car determines the standing position display so as to open a passage connected to an entrance / exit of the assigned car in a central portion of the assigned car. The destination floor set by the passenger by the destination registration board provided at the elevator hall is registered in the storage unit as a call registration, and the assigned car to be taken by the passenger is determined based on the call registration, and a plurality of elevators are operated. A group management device to manage,
Based on the output from the group management device, for each passenger heading to the same destination floor, a hall side guidance processing unit that informs the appropriate standby position and the appropriate boarding order,
An elevator guide method applied to an elevator guide apparatus comprising:
In the group management device,
A floor information output step of outputting floor information corresponding to the destination floor to the landing side guidance processing unit at each timing when the passenger sets the destination floor by the destination registration board, and the assigned car is the A group that groups passengers who go to the assigned car at the timing of arrival at the landing for each passenger heading to the same destination floor and totals the results, and outputs the totaled result as information on the number of passengers per destination floor to the landing side guidance processing unit Information output step,
In the above platform side guidance processing section,
Based on the floor information output in the floor information output step, the waiting position at the landing for boarding the assigned car determined by the group management device, and from the destination registration board to the standby position A waiting position determining step for determining a taxiway;
Based on the number of passengers per destination floor output in the grouping information output step, the passengers corresponding to the destination floor that stops first are boarded later according to the stop floor order after the assigned car departs from the landing. A boarding order determining step for determining the boarding order to be guided in the assigned car,
Until the assigned car arrives at the landing, a standby position display is displayed for the passenger using the standby position and the taxiway determined in the standby position determination step based on the floor information. And the taxiway display is determined as a landing display image, and after the assigned car has arrived at the landing, using the boarding order determined in the boarding order determination step based on the number of passengers per destination floor information A display image determining step for determining a boarding guidance display from the standby position to the assigned car as the landing display image, and the landing display image provided in the landing and determined in the display image determining step is displayed on the landing Elevator guidance method having an image output step for informing the appropriate waiting position and the appropriate boarding order for each passenger who projects toward the same destination floor

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