JPH07215617A - Elevator crime prevention/monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve crime prevention monitoring function and prevent entry of a dubious person by confirming a visitor through an interaction device and a monitor television and monitoring the visitor continuously from the time when he/she is in front of an elevator at an entrance to the time after he/she gets on the elevator when there is the visitor. CONSTITUTION:When a visitor stands in front of an elevator at an entrance floor and operates an intercom 1, an interaction circuit control section 9 of an exchanger 11 connects a controller 2 for resident with the intercom 1 for call. When a resident takes up a receiver 5, he/she can speak with the visitor. At the same time, a picture signal from a monitoring camera 7 in front of the elevator is sent to a monitor television 3 via a camera control section 10, and the resident can confirm the visitor by picture. Further, when the resident operates a control key 4 to operate an elevator controller 6, the elevator moves to the entrance floor. After that, when the visitor gets on the elevator, a monitoring camera 8 in the elevator is switched and operated by the camera control section 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator security monitoring device for monitoring security in an elevator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the increase in crime, auto-lock doors have been installed at the entrances of buildings in apartment houses, and visitors can operate the interactive device for visitors that is installed near the auto-lock doors. Enter the room number to call the resident,
Only when the resident side gives an unlock signal to the auto-lock door, it is possible to have a conversation by connecting to the resident side dialogue device.
Security systems that automatically open doors to allow entry into buildings have become widely used.

In addition, a surveillance camera is installed at the entrance of the building together with the auto-lock door, and if the line is connected to the resident side dialogue device called from the visitor dialogue device, the resident side dialogue device can be operated. The one that visitors are displayed on the monitor TV is also being used.

[0004]

However, even such a conventional crime prevention system has a problem that sufficient crime prevention cannot be achieved. In other words, if an elevator is installed in the building, this elevator can be used by both outsiders and residents, so depending on the situation, the residents may not be able to fully check the visitors before opening the autolock door. There was a case where a suspicious person was unlocked and a suspicious person was put in the building, and in such a case, there was a possibility that a crime might occur in the elevator.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and it is possible to continuously monitor a visitor from the front of an automatic lock door at the entrance of a building to the inside of an elevator to prevent a suspicious person from entering. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator crime prevention monitoring device that can be reliably prevented.

[0006]

An elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus according to the invention of claim 1 is a dialogue apparatus installed in each living room, an elevator operating apparatus and a monitor TV for operating the elevator from the living room, and near an elevator door. Installed in the room, a dialogue device for visitors that selects and connects the dialogue device in each room, a pre-elevator monitoring device that captures an image near the door of the elevator and sends the image to the monitor TV in each room, and the elevator Elevator monitoring device that captures images inside and sends the images to the monitor TV in each room, elevator door door closing detection device, and elevator door door closing detection device when the door closing detection signal is output. An image signal switching control device for switching the image signal of the front monitoring device to the image signal of the elevator monitoring device and transmitting the image signal to the monitor television. .

An elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is a dialogue apparatus installed in each room, an unlocking operation apparatus for unlocking an automatic lock door at a building entrance, and an elevator operation apparatus for operating the elevator from the room. And installed near the monitor TV and the auto-lock door at the building entrance,
A visitor dialogue device that selects and connects to the dialogue device in each room, a building entrance monitoring device that captures an image of the entrance side of the auto-lock door and sends the image to the monitor TV in each room, and an elevator An elevator pre-monitoring device that captures an image near the door and sends the image to the monitor TV in each room, and an in-elevator monitoring device that captures an image in the elevator and sends the image to the monitor TV in each room, Auto-lock door door closing detection device, elevator door door closing detection device, and auto-lock door door closing detection device outputs an auto-lock door door closing detection signal. When switching to the image signal of the monitoring device and the door closing detection device of the elevator door outputs the door closing detection signal, the monitoring signal inside the elevator is monitored from the image signal of the elevator front monitoring device. Is switched to an image signal is obtained by an image signal switching control unit that transmits to the monitor television.

According to the invention of claim 3, in the elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus of claim 1 or 2, further, only the operation from the elevator operating device in the living room in which the living room side interactive device is connected to the visitor interactive device is effective. It is equipped with an elevator operation arbitration device.

[0009]

According to the elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus of the invention of claim 1, the visitor operates an interactive device for a visitor installed near the door of the elevator to connect with the interactive device at the visited place, and the resident at the visited place. When he picks up the dialogue device and starts talking to the visitor, the pre-elevator monitoring device captures an image of the vicinity of the elevator door and sends the image to the monitor television at the visited site to show the visitor's appearance. Then, the resident at the visited site confirms the visitor and operates the elevator so as to go to the entrance floor by the elevator operation device, and directs the elevator to the entrance floor where the visitor is. When the elevator arrives at the entrance floor and the passenger gets into the elevator and the door closing operation is completed, the door closing detection device outputs a door closing detection signal, and the image signal switching control device receives the image and the image of the elevator pre-monitoring device is received. The signal is switched to the image signal of the monitoring device in the elevator and displayed on the monitor television.

In this way, the resident of the building in which the elevator is installed should confirm the visitor by voice through the dialogue device if there is a visitor, and continuously through the monitor TV from before the elevator at the entrance until after getting into the elevator. Visually check the visitors and watch for suspicious persons from getting into the elevator.

In the elevator security monitoring apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention, when an auto-lock door is further installed at the entrance of the building, the monitor television is set between the front of the auto-lock door at the entrance and the time when the passenger gets on the elevator. It should be viewed and visually checked to prevent suspicious persons from getting into the elevator.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the elevator security monitoring apparatus according to the first or second aspect, only the operation from the elevator operating device in the living room in which the living room side interactive device is connected to the visitor interactive device is effective. By providing an elevator operation arbitration device, when there is a visitor, it is possible to prevent crime while protecting the privacy of the visitor so that the elevator cannot be operated from other rooms until the visitor arrives at the visited room. To do so.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 and 3 show an embodiment of the invention of claim 1, which is for a visitor near an elevator door on the entrance floor in a building where an elevator leading from the entrance floor to the floor of each living room is installed. An intercom 1 is installed, and a resident controller 2 is installed in each living room. This resident controller 2 has a monitor TV 3,
A control key 4 for performing elevator operations, intercom operations, etc. and a handset 5 are installed. By operating the control key 4 of the resident controller 2, a control signal is sent to the elevator control device 6,
It is possible to call the elevator's own room floor or entrance floor to call the elevator to the own room floor and also to the entrance floor where the visitor is.

Further, a front-elevator monitoring camera 7 is installed near the elevator door on the entrance floor so as to take a picture near the front of the elevator door on the entrance floor, and a surveillance camera 8 inside the elevator is installed inside the elevator so as to take a picture inside the elevator. is set up.

Then, a switching device 11 equipped with a dialogue line control section 9 and a camera control section 10 for respectively controlling the connection of the dialogue line between each resident controller 2 and the visitor intercom 1 and the connection control of the image signal line. Are installed in the building management room and other suitable locations. Then, when the dialogue line control unit 9 connects the dialogue line between the visitor intercom 1 and the resident controller 2 of the designated living room, the camera control unit 10 sends the same video signal from the elevator front monitoring camera 7 to the same living room. Control the transmission of image signals,
Further, when the door closing detection device 12 that detects the closing of the elevator door on the entrance floor detects the completion of the door closing on the entrance floor, the camera control unit 10 causes the image signal from the front-elevator monitoring camera 7 and the inside-elevator monitoring camera 8 to operate. The signal switching control for switching the image signal from the above and transmitting it to the occupant controller 2 is performed.

Next, the operation of the elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus having the above structure will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.
When the visitor 13 arrives at the entrance floor of the building and stands in front of the elevator door 14 and operates the intercom 1 for the visitor to specify the room number of the visitee and presses the call button, the conversation line of the exchange device 11 is reached. The controller 9 connects the resident controller 2 having the designated room number to the intercom 1 for visitor and calls.

Then, when the resident 15 picks up the handset 5 of the resident controller 2 and sends a connection command to the exchange device 11, the dialogue between the intercom 1 for visitor and the resident controller 2 in the designated living room. The line is connected so that the visitor 13 and the resident 15 can talk with each other, and at the same time, the image signal from the elevator front monitoring camera 7 is also sent to the monitor TV 3 of the resident controller 2 by the camera control unit 10. The line connection is made so as to transmit, and the appearance of the visitor 13 standing in front of the elevator is displayed on the monitor TV 3, and the visitor 13 can be confirmed by the image.

Then, the resident 15 confirms the visitor 13 by the image displayed on the monitor TV 3 (step S1) and operates the control key 4 to move the elevator to the entrance floor. In response to the command, the device 6 moves the elevator to the entrance floor and opens the door 14 (step S2).

When the visitor 13 sees the door 14 of the elevator opened and gets in the car and calls the car on the floor of the intended living room, the elevator control device 6 closes the door 14 to reach the car calling floor. To move the elevator 16,
At this time, when the door closing detection device 12 gives a signal that detects that the door 14 is closed to the camera control unit 10 of the exchange device 11, the camera control unit 10 uses the image signals of the elevator pre-monitoring cameras 7 up to then to lift the elevator. The image signal of the internal surveillance camera 8 is switched to be transmitted to the resident controller 2 (step S3). As a result, it becomes possible to continuously check the monitor television 3 of the resident controller 2 from the state before the elevator to the state inside the elevator after the visitor 13 has boarded the elevator 16 (step S4). .

Therefore, it is possible to continuously monitor from before the elevator to inside the elevator, and to confirm it if the visitor 13 is a suspicious person, and if the suspicious person is boarding with the legitimate visitor 13. It is also possible to confirm that the security is highly reliable.

Next, an embodiment of the invention of claim 2 will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 6. In a building with an auto-lock door 17 installed at the entrance, and the entrance to the auto-lock door 17 is the elevator hall on the entrance floor, a photo of a visitor standing outside this door near the auto-lock door 17 is taken. A front entrance surveillance camera 18 is installed so that it can be done, a visitor intercom 19 is installed on the wall near the auto-lock door 17, and a resident controller 20 is installed in each living room. .

The automatic lock door 17 can be automatically opened and closed from the inside of the building, but the key held by the resident can be inserted into the unlocking device provided in the intercom 19 for the visitor to release the automatic lock. Alternatively, it cannot be automatically opened and closed from the outside unless the automatic lock is released by the control key 21 of the resident controller 20 in each living room. And this auto lock door 17
Is provided with a door closing detection device 22 that detects the door closing.

The resident controller 20 is provided with a monitor TV 3, a control key 22 for performing an automatic lock release operation, an elevator operation, an intercom operation, and the like, and a receiver 5. This resident controller 20
By operating the control key 21 of, the automatic lock door 17 is unlocked automatically, or a control signal is sent to the elevator control device 6 to generate a call to the floor of the elevator's own room or a call to the entrance floor, and the elevator is moved to its own room. You can call to the floor and head to the entrance floor with visitors.

Further, a front-elevator monitoring camera 7 is installed near the elevator door on the entrance floor so as to take a picture near the front of the elevator door on the entrance floor, and a surveillance camera 8 inside the elevator is installed inside the elevator so as to take a picture inside the elevator. is set up.

A switching device 24 having a dialogue line control section 9 and a camera control section 23 for respectively controlling connection of a dialogue line between each resident controller 20 and a visitor intercom 19 and a connection control of an image signal line is provided in a building. It is installed in the management room and other suitable places.

The camera control unit 23, when the dialogue line control unit 9 connects the dialogue line between the intercom 19 for visitor and the resident controller 20 in the designated living room, an image of the front door surveillance camera 18 for the same living room. A signal transmission control is performed, and when the door-closing detection device 22 of the auto-lock door 17 detects the door-closing of the auto-lock door 17, the image signal of the front entrance surveillance camera 18 and the image signal of the elevator front surveillance camera 7 are switched, Further, when the door closing detection device 12 for detecting the door closing of the elevator door on the entrance floor detects the completion of the door closing on the entrance floor, the image signal of the surveillance camera 7 in front of the elevator and the image signal of the surveillance camera 8 in the elevator are switched to each other. The signal switching control for transmitting to the controller 20 is performed.

Next, the operation of the elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.
When the visitor 13 comes to the front floor of the building and operates the intercom 19 for the visitor to specify the room number of the visitee and presses the call button, the interactive line control unit 9 of the exchange device 24
Connects the resident controller 20 having the designated room number with the intercom 19 for visitor to call.

Therefore, when the resident 15 picks up the handset 5 of the resident controller 20 and sends a connection command to the exchange device 24, a dialogue between the visitor intercom 19 and the resident controller 20 of the designated living room. The line is connected so that the visitor 13 and the resident 15 can talk with each other, and at the same time, the image signal from the front entrance surveillance camera 18 is also sent to the monitor TV 3 of the resident controller 20 by the camera control unit 23. The line connection is made to send,
The image of the visitor 13 standing in front of the entrance auto-lock door 17 is displayed on the monitor TV 3, and the image of the visitor 13 can be confirmed.

Therefore, the resident 15 uses the monitor TV 3
When the visitor 13 is confirmed by the image displayed on the screen (step S11) and the control key 21 is operated to give an auto-lock release command to the auto-lock door 17, the auto-lock door 17 is unlocked and the front door is visited. When a person stands, the door automatically opens and closes (step S12). At the same time, the auto-lock release command signal is also transmitted to the elevator control device 6, the elevator control device 6 prohibits hall calls from the entrance floor, and a visitor who enters the entrance operates the elevator freely to visit the destination. Not to go to the other floors.

Then, the visitor 13 makes the auto-lock door 1
When 7 opens to enter the building and the door 17 closes again, the door closing detection device 22 outputs the detection signal to the camera control unit 23 of the exchange device 24, and the camera control unit 23 up to that time the front door surveillance camera 18. Is switched to the image signal of the surveillance camera 7 in front of the elevator, and this is displayed on the monitor TV 3 of the resident controller 20 (step S1).
3).

Then, the resident 15 confirms that the visitor 13 standing in front of the elevator door 14 is not a suspicious person, and when accepting the visit, operates the control key 21 to move the elevator 16 to the entrance floor. When you do
In response to the command, the elevator control device 6 moves the elevator to the entrance floor and opens the door 14 (steps S14, S).
15).

When the visitor 13 sees the door 14 of the elevator opened and gets inside, and calls the car on the floor of the target room, the elevator control device 6 closes the door 14 to reach the car calling floor. At this time, when the elevator door close detection device 12 gives a signal that the door close detection device 12 detects that the door 14 is closed to the camera control unit 23 of the exchange device 24, the camera control unit 23 causes the elevator front The image signal of the surveillance camera 7 is switched to the image signal of the surveillance camera 8 in the elevator and transmitted to the resident controller 20 (step S16). As a result, it becomes possible to continuously check the monitor television 3 of the resident controller 20 from the state before the elevator to the state inside the elevator after the visitor 13 has boarded the elevator 16 (step S17). .

Therefore, if the visitor 13 is a suspicious person, it can be continuously monitored from the entrance to the entrance hall and further into the elevator, and if the visitor 13 is a suspicious person, the suspicious person can be confirmed by the elevator 16 as well. If you get into a car, you can check it as well, and you can have highly reliable crime prevention.

In each of the above embodiments, the system for displaying the image signals from the surveillance cameras 7, 8 and 18 on the monitor television 3 is based on the presently commercially available periodic still image transmission function. The capacity is reduced and the system does not need to be enlarged.

If it is confirmed from the resident controllers 2 and 20 that a suspicious person is in the elevator 16, operations such as stopping on the nearest floor, returning to the entrance floor, and notifying the security room and management room are performed. The crime prevention function can be further enhanced by adding a function capable of

Furthermore, in order to prevent erroneous operation by residents,
While the transmission lines of the image signals are established by the switching devices 11 and 24, and while the image signals from the cameras 7, 8 and 18 are displayed on the monitor TV 3 for confirmation, only the resident controllers 2 and 20 thereof are used. By incorporating the elevator operation arbitration device into the elevator control device 6 so that the elevator operation becomes effective, it is possible to ensure crime prevention monitoring.

[0037]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1,
If there is a visitor, I will confirm the visitor by voice through the dialogue device, and I will continue to visually check the visitor through the monitor TV from before the elevator at the entrance until after getting in the elevator. If a suspicious person gets into the elevator with a legitimate visitor or alone, he or she can immediately see it and enhance security surveillance.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when an auto-lock door is further installed at the entrance of the building, a visitor is displayed on the monitor TV even before the entrance of the auto-lock door at the entrance and before getting into the elevator. Since it is checked visually, it is possible to enhance security monitoring of the building where the auto lock door is installed.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in the elevator security monitoring apparatus according to the first or second aspect, only the operation from the elevator operating device in the living room in which the living room side interactive device is connected to the visitor interactive device is performed. Since it is equipped with an elevator operation arbitration device that enables the operation, when there is a visitor, the elevator can not be operated from other rooms until the visitor arrives at the visited room, and crime prevention is performed while protecting the privacy of the visitor. Can be done.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention of claim 1;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention of claim 2;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Intercom for visitor 2 Controller for resident 3 Monitor TV 4 Control key 5 Handset 6 Elevator control device 7 Elevator monitoring camera 8 Elevator monitoring camera 9 Dialog line control unit 10 Camera control unit 11 Switching device 12 Door closing detection device 13 Visitors 14 Elevator doors 15 Residents 16 Elevators 17 Auto-lock doors 18 Front door surveillance cameras 19 Visitor intercoms 20 Resident controllers 21 Control keys 22 Door closing detectors 23 Camera control units 24 Exchangers

Continuation of front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification number Reference number within the agency FI Technical indication location H04N 5/225 C 7/18 D (72) Inventor Yutaka Nakajima 1 Toshiba Town Fuchu City, Tokyo Toshiba Fuchu Corporation in the factory

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A dialogue device installed in each living room, an elevator operating device for operating an elevator from the living room, and a monitor TV, and a dialogue device installed in the vicinity of an elevator door and connected to each living room. A visitor interaction device, an elevator pre-monitoring device that captures an image near the door of the elevator and sends the image to the monitor TV in each living room, and an image in the elevator that captures an image in the elevator, monitor TV in each living room Monitoring device in the elevator that sends the image to, the door closing detection device of the elevator door, when the door closing detection device of the elevator door outputs a door closing detection signal, the inside of the elevator monitoring from the image signal of the elevator front monitoring device And an image signal switching control device for switching to the image signal of the device and transmitting the image signal to the monitor television. 2. A dialogue device installed in each living room, an unlocking operation device for unlocking an automatic lock door at a building entrance, an elevator operating device and a monitor TV for operating an elevator from a living room, and an automatic lock at a building entrance. A visitor dialogue device that is installed near a door and selects and connects the dialogue device in each living room, and images of the vicinity of the entrance side of the auto-lock door are taken, and the image is displayed on the monitor TV of each living room. A building entrance monitoring device to send, an image near the door of the elevator is taken, and the pre-elevator monitoring device to send the image to the monitor TV of each living room, and an image inside the elevator is taken, and a monitor of each living room is taken An in-elevator monitoring device for transmitting the image to a television; a door closing detection device for the auto lock door; a door closing detection device for the elevator door; When the door closing detection device of the door door outputs the door closing detection signal of the auto-lock door, the image signal of the building entrance monitoring device is switched to the image signal of the elevator front monitoring device, and the door closing detection device of the elevator door is a door. An elevator crime prevention monitoring device, comprising: an image signal switching control device that switches the image signal of the pre-elevator monitoring device to the image signal of the in-elevator monitoring device and outputs the closed detection signal to the monitor television. 3. The elevator crime prevention monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein elevator operation arbitration is enabled only by an operation from an elevator operation device in a room in which a room-side dialog device is connected to the visitor dialog device. An elevator crime prevention monitoring device comprising a device.