JP2011057322A - Elevator system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow passengers to smoothly get off upon arrival of a car, in an elevator system having a landing destination floor registration device. <P>SOLUTION: In the elevator system having the landing destination floor registration device 15, a registrant recognition device 31 recognizes a passenger who registers a destination floor, and associates the passenger with the destination floor to be recorded in an information recording section 21 of a group management control device 11. Further, a passenger detection device 32 detects a passenger in the car, and an information verification unit 22 verifies information as to the passenger and information as to the passenger recorded in the information storage 21. An information processor 23 determines whether or not there are passengers getting off on an arrival floor of the car based on the verification result. When there are passengers getting off, the information processor 23 outputs a notification command to an announcing device 34 or a display device 35 in the car via a command section 24 to notify that there are the passengers getting off. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator system including a landing destination floor registration device for registering a destination floor at a landing on each floor.

  In recent years, an elevator system has been realized in which a landing destination floor registration device is installed at a landing on each floor in a building so that passengers can register the destination floor in advance before getting on the elevator car.

  Normally, in an elevator system that does not have a landing destination floor registration device, only the upward and downward buttons called “landing call buttons” are installed at the landing, which is optimal for the hall call registered by the button operation. A basket is assigned. In this case, since the hall call includes only upward or downward information, the passenger's destination floor is not considered when assigning the car.

  On the other hand, in an elevator system having a landing destination floor registration device, the passenger's destination floor can be known in advance. For example, the same car is assigned to passengers going to the same floor. Control can be performed.

  However, on the other hand, even if the passenger registers the destination floor, if the passenger does not get on for some reason, the car will be uselessly stopped. Therefore, it is considered that a camera is installed at the landing of each floor, and it is determined from the image of the camera whether or not the passenger has boarded the car, and the destination floor is registered only when boarding ( For example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Publication No. 5-34271

  In general, an elevator car is a cube, and a door, that is, an entrance / exit, is installed on one side thereof. Therefore, depending on the standing position of the passenger in the car, the passenger is naturally distinguished from the passenger who is near and far from the entrance. When the car is not congested, it is possible to get off easily even if it is away from the entrance.

  However, when the car is crowded with a large number of passengers, passengers far from the entrance may not be able to get off because other passengers will be obstructed when getting off. On the other hand, other passengers in the car can not care about the passengers because they do not know who gets off.

  In general, passengers near the control panel often play the role of pushing the door open button to open the door when there are passengers getting off, but each time the car stops on each floor, if you do not know who gets off You have to worry about the surroundings, and it is a burden. Further, since the door is closed after sufficiently confirming that the passenger has got off, there is a tendency that the door opening time is unnecessarily prolonged, and the operation efficiency of the elevator is lowered.

  Such a problem when getting off is remarkable in an elevator system having a landing destination floor registration device. This is because in the car, since the passenger does not perform the registration operation of the destination floor, it is impossible to know which floor the other person goes to.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator system that can smoothly get off when a car arrives in an elevator system having a landing destination floor registration device. .

  The present invention provides an registrant recognition means for recognizing a passenger who has registered a destination floor in the landing destination floor registration device in an elevator system including a landing destination floor registration device for registering a destination floor at the landing of each floor. , An information recording means for recording the passenger recognized by the registrant recognition means and the destination floor of the passenger in association with each other, a passenger detection means for detecting a passenger in the car, and a passenger detected by the passenger detection means Information comparing means for comparing the information of the passenger and the passenger information recorded in the information recording means, and information for determining whether there is a passenger getting off at the arrival floor of the car based on the result of checking by the information checking means It is characterized by comprising processing means and notifying means for notifying that there are passengers in the car when the information processing means determines that there are passengers getting off.

  Further, the present invention provides an registrant recognition for recognizing a passenger who registers a destination floor in the landing destination floor registration device in an elevator system including a landing destination floor registration device for registering a destination floor at the landing of each floor. Means, information recording means for associating and recording the passenger recognized by the registrant recognition means and the destination floor of the passenger, and obtaining the order of getting off based on the destination floor of each passenger recorded in the information recording means The information processing means for setting the boarding section of each passenger in the car according to the order of getting off, and the notification means for notifying the boarding section of each passenger set by the information processing means.

  According to the present invention, in an elevator system having a landing destination floor registration device, when there is a passenger getting off on the floor where the car arrives, that fact is notified, so that the passenger can get off smoothly.

  Moreover, according to this invention, the boarding area in a passenger car is set and notified according to the order of each passenger's getting off. Therefore, by getting on according to the boarding section, it is possible to get off smoothly when the car arrives.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an elevator system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the group management control device of the elevator system in the same embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a recording table created in the information recording unit of the group management control device in the same embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an arrangement example of the voice announcement device and the display device installed in the car in the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a display device installed in the car in the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an image obtained by photographing the inside of the car from the ceiling surface with the camera according to the embodiment. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a group management control device of an elevator system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an arrangement example of a voice announcement device and a display device installed at a landing in the embodiment. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus in the embodiment. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of the display device installed at the hall in the embodiment. FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of the display device installed in the car in the embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an elevator system according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and shows a configuration in which a plurality of elevators are group-controlled.

  This elevator system includes a group management control device 11 that is a main control device, a plurality of elevator control devices 12a, 12b, 12c... Connected to the group management control device 11 via a transmission cable 1, and these elevator controls. Cars 13a, 13b, 13c,... Of each car whose operation is controlled by the devices 12a, 12b, 12c,. Further, in this elevator system, landing destination floor registration devices 15a, 15b, 15c,... Are provided in the landings 14a, 14b, 14c,.

  The landing destination floor registration devices 15a, 15b, 15c,... Are devices for previously registering the passenger's destination floor at the landing, and an operation unit 16 for each passenger to input the destination floor by button operation, And a display unit 17 for confirming and displaying the destination floor registered by the operation unit 16. These landing destination floor registration devices 15 a, 15 b, 15 c... Are connected to the group management control device 11 via the transmission cable 2.

  In such a configuration, the elevator passengers get on the landing destination floor registration devices 15a, 15b, 15c ... installed at the landings 14a, 14b, 14c ... on the floors before getting on the cars 13a, 13b, 13c ... The destination floor can be registered through.

  Now, assuming that a destination floor is registered in the landing destination floor registration device 15a of a certain floor, the information on the destination floor is sent to the group management control device 11 as a hall call together with the information on the floor. The group management control device 11 determines a car to which the hall call is assigned based on the driving state of the cars 13a, 13b, 13c... Obtained from the elevator control devices 12a, 12b, 12c. A hall call assignment signal is output to the elevator controller. For example, if a hall call is assigned to the car 13a of Unit 1, an assignment signal is output to the elevator controller 12a.

  At this time, since it is displayed on the display unit 17 of the landing destination floor registration device 15a that the first car responds to the destination floor registered by the passenger, the passenger gets on without getting lost when the car 13a arrives. can do. Further, when the passenger gets on the car 13a, since his / her destination floor is already registered, an operation for registering the destination floor in the car 13a is not necessary.

  On the other hand, since the group management control device 11 can know the passenger's destination floor in advance, when there are a large number of passengers who want to go to the same floor, the operation efficiency can be improved by assigning the same car or the like. .

  The above is a general configuration of an elevator system having a landing destination registration device. In the present embodiment, a configuration as shown in FIG. 2 is further provided.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the group management control device 11 of the elevator system according to the first embodiment.

  In the following, the hall 14 and the landing destination floor registration device are represented on behalf of one of the landings 14a, 14b, 14c... And the landing destination floor registration devices 15a, 15b, 15c. This will be described as 15. Similarly, the elevator control devices 12a, 22b, 12c... And the passenger cars 13a, 13b, 13c... Corresponding to each car are represented as an elevator control device 12 and a car 13 as one of them. explain.

  The group management control device 11 includes an information recording unit 21, an information matching unit 22, an information processing unit 23, and a command unit 24.

  The information recording unit 21 records the passenger who registered the destination floor at the hall 14 and the destination floor in association with each other. The information collation unit 22 collates the passenger information recorded in the information recording unit 21 with the passenger information in the car. The information processing unit 23 executes specific processing for smoothly dropping passengers when getting off the vehicle based on the collation result of the information collation unit 22. The command unit 24 issues a command to each unit according to the processing result of the information processing unit 23.

  In addition, a registrant recognition device 31 for recognizing (specifying) a passenger who has registered a destination floor in the landing destination floor registration device 15 is provided at the landing on each floor. The passenger information recognized by the registrant recognition device 31 is sent to the group management control device 11 together with the destination floor information registered by the passenger and recorded in the information recording unit 21.

Specifically, an image recognition technique using a camera is used as the registrant recognition device 31.
That is, by installing a camera on the landing 14 and analyzing an image captured by the camera, a passenger operating the landing destination floor registration device 15 is recognized. In this case, it may be possible to analyze the height of the passenger who is a registrant, the silhouette of the body, the color of clothes, etc. from the camera image, and acquire this as the passenger's information, or to recognize the passenger's face But you can.

  In addition, when a passenger performs a destination floor registration operation using the landing destination floor registration device 15, the information recording unit 21 associates the passenger with the destination floor by using that destination floor as a trigger. Shall be recorded.

  As a method for recording passengers and destination floors in association with each other, for example, a method of recording the passengers and destination floors with the same index added thereto, a recording table is created in the information recording unit 21, and the recording is performed. There is a method of recording passenger and destination floor information in the same row of the table.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of recording passenger and destination floor information in a recording table created in the information recording unit 21. In this example, a case where passenger A and passenger B register the third floor and passenger C registers the fifth floor is shown. Although only one recording table is shown in the example of FIG. 3, this recording table is prepared for each floor.

  On the other hand, the car 13 of each car is provided with a passenger detection device 32 for detecting passengers in the car and a position information acquisition device 33 for acquiring the position of passengers in the car. An image recognition technique using a camera can also be used for the passenger detection device 32 and the position information acquisition device 33.

  That is, a camera is installed on the ceiling or the like so that the entire car can be photographed, and the presence or absence of the passenger and the position of the passenger are detected from an image photographed by the camera. In this case, since the passenger is specified by the registrant recognition device 31, it is possible to grasp who is where by tracking the passenger in the car by the passenger detection device 32.

  The car 13 is provided with a voice announcement device 34 for making a voice announcement when a passenger gets off, and a display device 35 for giving a display guidance for getting off. As shown in FIG. 4, the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35 are installed, for example, in the upper part of the vicinity of the car door 36a. Note that the installation positions of the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35 are not particularly limited, but the display device 35 may be installed at a position where the passenger in the car can be seen anywhere. desirable.

  In FIG. 4, 37a and 37b in the figure are a door opening button and a door closing button. There is no button to specify the destination floor like a normal elevator.

  Further, the car 13 is provided with a door control device 36 for controlling the door opening / closing operation of the car door 36a.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus 11 in the first embodiment.

  When the landing 14 arrives at a certain floor and there is a passenger getting off at that floor, the group management control device 11 informs the passenger in the car through the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35 that the passenger is getting off. Notice.

  Specifically, by the time the car 13 arrives at the next floor, the group management control device 11 detects the passenger information in the car detected by the passenger detection device 32 and the passenger information recorded in the information recording unit 21. Are collated by the information collation unit 22 (step A11). The collation result is sent to the information processing unit 23. The reason why the passenger information of the passenger detection device 32 and the passenger information of the information recording unit 21 are collated is because it is considered that there is a passenger who did not actually get in by performing only the registration operation of the destination floor at the landing 14. It is.

  If it is determined from the collation result that there is a passenger getting off at the next floor in the car (Yes in step A12), the information processing unit 23 displays the voice announcement device 34 in the car through the command unit 24. A notification instruction is issued to the device 35 (step A14).

  Thus, when the car 13 arrives, the voice announcement device 34 informs the passengers in the car that there is a passenger getting off. At that time, for example, by detecting the number of people getting off based on the result of collation by the information collation unit 22 in addition to a message such as “You are going to get off” (step A13), for example, there are three people who get off. "You may tell the specific number of people." In this way, passengers in the car can compare the number of people actually getting off with the number of people announced by the voice announcement device 34 to determine whether there are still passengers getting off.

  Further, the display device 35 may be used to visually notify that there is a passenger getting off. The display device 35 may be a simple device that displays a specific message on an indicator in the car, or a display device such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) that can display more various information. Also good. FIG. 6 shows an example in which an LCD is used as the display device 35.

  FIG. 6 is a view showing an example of the display screen 41 of the display device 35 installed in the car 13.

  On the display screen 41 of the display device 35, a first display area 42 for displaying the number of floors and the driving direction as the current driving state of the car 13, and a second for displaying a message related to the passenger getting off. Display area 43 is provided.

  With the position information acquisition device 33 in the car shown in FIG. 2, the group management control device 11 can grasp the position of each passenger in the car. By using the position information to display the position of the passenger in the second display area 43, it is possible to notify other passengers where the passenger is scheduled to get off.

  In the example of FIG. 6, in the second display area 43, a passenger 45 is drawn in a frame 44 indicating the inside of the car. Among these, the passenger 45a is displayed separately from the other passengers 45. As a distinction display method, for example, the passenger 45a is turned on and displayed or displayed in a different color. Here, the passenger 45a is in a position far from the car door 36a (entrance / exit), and the passenger in front of it gets into an obstacle and it is difficult to get off.

  In addition, the group management control device 11 issues a door opening / closing operation adjustment instruction to the door control device 36 through the command unit 24 (step A15). Specifically, the door opening time is adjusted to be increased stepwise according to the number of people getting off.

  In addition, you may adjust so that the door opening time may become long, so that it is in the position far from the car door 36a (entrance / exit) according to the position of the passenger getting out by the position information acquisition apparatus 33.

  Furthermore, it may be controlled to close the door after a certain amount of time has elapsed since the passenger got off the vehicle (for example, after 1.0 second). It can be inferred that the passenger getting off has analyzed the image of the camera in the car.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment of the present invention, when the car arrives, it is notified that there is a passenger getting off the floor. Therefore, when passengers arrive at the car, other passengers can open the way near the doorway for passengers to get off, and passengers can get off smoothly without saying something like `` Get off here '' You can get off.

  At that time, by notifying the passenger including the position of the passenger in the car, other passengers can open the road after confirming the position of the passenger.

  Further, by adjusting the door opening / closing time when there are passengers getting off, it is possible to eliminate the need for a door opening operation by passengers near the door panel and to prevent unnecessarily extending the door opening time, thereby improving the operation efficiency.

  In this case, the passenger car 13 is provided with the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35 so as to notify the information about the passengers by both voice and display, but may be notified by either one of them. Also, if a similar notification device is provided at the landing 14 so that when the car 13 arrives, the passengers at the landing 14 are notified by voice or display that there are passengers getting off the car 13. , You will be able to get off more smoothly.

  Moreover, although the image recognition technique using a camera was applied as a method of recognizing a passenger, it is also conceivable to use, for example, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technique. That is, if an RFID card is carried by a passenger using an elevator and a reader for reading the tag information of the card is installed in the hall 14 or the car 13, the passenger can be recognized from the tag information. .

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  In the second embodiment, notification is made according to the degree of congestion in the car or the difficulty of getting off when getting off.

  Since the basic configuration of the group management control device 11 is the same as that in FIG. 2, the processing operation will be described here.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control device 11 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  As in the first embodiment, by the time the car 13 arrives at the next floor, the information processing unit 231 detects the passenger information in the car 13 detected by the passenger detection device 32 and the information recording unit. The information collation unit 22 collates the passenger information recorded in 21 (step B11). The collation result is sent to the information processing unit 23.

  Here, when it is determined from the collation result that there is a passenger getting off at the next floor in the car 13 (Yes in Step B12), the information processing unit 23 detects the degree of congestion in the car. (Step B13).

  The degree of congestion in the car can be obtained from the ratio of the number of passengers in the car and the capacity of the elevator. For example, if a capacity of 60% is used as a reference value, and there are more people than the reference value, it is determined that the vehicle is congested.

  When it is congested (Yes in step B14), the information processing unit 23 instructs the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35 in the car through the command unit 24 as in the first embodiment. To notify that there are passengers getting off (step B15). Further, the information processing section 23 issues an adjustment instruction for the door opening / closing operation to the door control device 36 through the command section 24 (step B16).

  On the other hand, if it is not crowded, that is, if the boarding rate is less than the reference value (No in step B14), then the group management control device 11 detects the degree of difficulty in getting off (step B17).

A method of obtaining the degree of difficulty in getting off will be described with reference to FIG.
Now, it is assumed that a camera is installed on the ceiling surface in the car and an image of the camera is given to the information processing unit 23 of the group management control device 11. In the example of FIG. 8, there is an entrance, that is, a car door 36 a in the upper direction of the camera image 51. Also, 52 in the figure indicates a passenger getting off at the next arrival floor, and 53 and 54 indicate other passengers on the course when the passenger gets off. Moreover, 55-58 shows the other passengers who do not influence alighting passenger's getting off. In addition, the position of each passenger including a passenger is obtained from the position information acquisition device 33.

  The information processing unit 23 first analyzes the camera image 51 to confirm the position of the passenger, and determines whether there are other passengers on the route from the passenger's position to the car door 36a. to decide. When there is another passenger on the route, the information processing unit 23 determines whether there is a space that can pass through the passenger, and determines that it is difficult to get off when there is no such space. .

  More specifically, the information processing unit 23 determines whether it is difficult to get off in the following procedure.

  (1) First, the passenger 52 is detected from the camera image 51, and the width L1 of the passenger 52 is obtained. In this case, since the passenger 52 does not necessarily stand toward the car door 36a, a circle centering on the center point 52a of the image showing the passenger 52 is assumed, and the diameter of the circle is defined as the width of the passenger. Assume that L1 is obtained.

  (2) Next, if the short end far from the car center line L0 is the far end point P1 among the end points of the straight line indicating the passenger width L1, the car is at the minimum distance from the far end point P1. A certain reference point Q1 is obtained.

  (3) Next, a straight line L2 passing through the reference point Q1 and the far end point P1, and a straight line L3 obtained by translating the straight line L2 to the other end point P2 of the passenger width L1 are obtained.

  (4) A region surrounded by the straight line of the straight line L2, the straight line L3, the passenger width L1 and the car door 36a is defined as a passenger exit area 59 of the passenger 52, and a passenger who touches the passenger exit area 59 is regarded as an obstacle. In the example of FIG. 8, two passengers 53 and 54 exist as disturbers.

  (5) Next, the minimum distance between the passengers 53 and 54 who are disturbers is calculated. The minimum distance here refers to the distance between the points closest to the other disturber among the points in the image surrounding one disturber. In the case of FIG. 8, the distance L4 between the passengers 53 and 54 is the minimum distance.

  (6) The distance L4 between the passengers 53 and 54 and the passenger width L1 are compared, and it is determined that it is possible to get off when L4> L1, and it is difficult to get off when L4 ≦ L1.

  Returning to the flowchart of FIG. 7, when it is difficult to get off (Yes in Step B <b> 18), the information processing unit 23 displays the voice announcement device 34 in the car through the command unit 24 as in the first embodiment. A notification instruction is issued to the device 35 to notify that there is a passenger getting off (step B15). Further, the information processing section 23 issues an adjustment instruction for the door opening / closing operation to the door control device 36 through the command section 24 (step B16).

  In FIG. 7, the degree of congestion in the car is obtained first, and the degree of disembarkation is obtained when it is determined that the car is not crowded, but the degree of disembarkation may be obtained first.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to notify the passenger when the inside of the car is congested or when it is difficult to get off, thereby causing the passenger to get off smoothly.

(Third embodiment)
Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  In 3rd Embodiment, in addition to the structure of said 1st Embodiment, when the passenger tried to get off on floors other than his registered floor, the function to call a passenger's attention with a voice announcement device was added. Is.

  Since the basic configuration of the group management control device 11 is the same as that in FIG. 2, the processing operation will be described here.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control apparatus 11 in the third embodiment of the present invention.

  As in the first embodiment, by the time the car 13 arrives at the next floor, the information processing unit 231 detects the passenger information in the car 13 detected by the passenger detection device 32 and the information recording unit. The information of the passenger recorded in 21 is collated by the information collating unit 22 (step C11). The collation result is sent to the information processing unit 23.

  Here, when the car 13 arrives, the information processing section 23 detects the presence / absence of a passenger who has mistakenly got off the floor (step C12). This detects a passenger who is about to go out of the car based on the position information of the passenger obtained from the position information acquisition device 33, refers to the information recording unit 21, and the destination floor of the passenger is the current floor. This is done by judging whether it is a floor.

  If the passenger's destination floor is not the current floor, that is, if the passenger is about to get off by mistake (Yes in step C12), the information processing unit 23 sends the voice announcement device 34 through the command unit 24. A notification instruction is issued, and it is notified by voice announcement that the passenger is not on the registered floor (step C13).

  Specifically, for example, “This is the third floor. Please check the floor to get off.” Announce the arrival floor again to inform the passenger that he / she got off wrongly. Thereby, when a passenger mistakenly tries to get off at a place other than his / her registered floor, he / she can immediately notice it and return it to the car.

  When the passenger gets off the floor other than the registered floor (Yes in Step C14), the information processing section 23 cancels the destination floor registered by the passenger from the information recording section 21 (Step C15).

  The timing for canceling the passenger's destination floor is after the car door 36a is completely closed. This is because of the possibility that the passenger will notice and come back just before the door closes. In addition, when canceling the registration of the destination floor, it is preferable that the passengers in the car are informed by the voice announcement device 34 that the registration of the destination floor is cancelled, so that the passenger is not distrusted. .

  As described above, according to the third embodiment of the present invention, when a passenger mistakenly tries to get off at a floor other than the registered floor, a notice to that effect can be given to call attention.

  In addition, if for some reason the passenger gets off the floor other than the registered floor, canceling the passenger's destination floor prevents the car from being stopped unnecessarily on the floor where there is no passenger. it can.

(Fourth embodiment)
Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  In 4th Embodiment, in order to perform each passenger's getting off smoothly, arrangement | positioning of each passenger in a cage | basket | car is instruct | indicated.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the group management control device 11 of the elevator system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part same as the structure of FIG. 2 in the said 1st Embodiment, and the description shall be abbreviate | omitted.

  In the fourth embodiment, a voice announcement device 38 and a display device 39 are installed at predetermined positions on the hall 14 in order to notify the passengers at the hall 14. As shown in FIG. 11, the voice announcement device 38 and the display device 39 are installed, for example, near the landing door 40. In addition, a landing destination floor registration device 15 is installed in the vicinity of the landing door 40 for a passenger who has arrived at the landing 14 to register the destination floor.

  Note that the installation positions of the voice announcement device 38 and the display device 39 are not particularly limited, but the display device 39 may be installed at a position where the passengers on the hall 14 can see wherever they are. desirable.

  In such a configuration, since the passenger registers the destination floor first using the landing destination floor registration device 15 installed in the landing 14, the elevator system 13 efficiently uses the registration information on the basis of the registration information. As described above, can be made to respond.

  In this case, the passenger's destination floor is stored in the information recording unit 21 in the group management control device 11. The group management control device 11 uses the registration information of the destination floor stored in the information recording unit 21 to select the car 13 that can respond most efficiently. On the other hand, the passenger confirms the response number on the display unit 17 of the landing destination floor registration device 15 and waits in front of the landing door 40 of that number.

  Here, in the fourth embodiment, the following processing is performed.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the group management control device 11 in the fourth embodiment.

  The information processing unit 23 of the group management control device 11 reads the information on the destination floor of these passengers from the information recording unit 21 at the timing when the passengers to get on the same car 13 at the landing 14 and determines the order of each passenger to get off. Is determined (step D11). In this case, the descending order is determined in order from the passenger who registered the destination floor closest to the current position in the traveling direction of the car 13.

  When the disembarking order is determined, the information processing section 23 sets the boarding sections of the passengers so that the passengers with the slower order are arranged in the rear of the car (step D12). And the information processing part 23 notifies the boarding area of each set passenger to the hall 14 and the car 13 (steps D13 and D14). In this case, the hall 14 is notified by voice and display through the voice announcement device 34 and the display device 35, and the inside of the car 13 is notified by voice and display through the voice announcement device 38 and the display device 39. .

  FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of the display screen 61 of the display device 39 installed at the hall 14.

  On the display screen 61 of the display device 39, a first display area 62 for displaying the car responding to the hall 14 and the driving direction, and a second display area 63 for displaying a message regarding the boarding area, Is provided.

  In the example of FIG. 13, in the second display area 63, the boarding sections 65a and 65b are displayed in a frame 64 indicating the inside of the car. In the boarding section 65a, it is specified that passengers getting off between the 11th and 18th floors get on the rear side of the car. In the boarding section 65b, the boarding position is designated so that passengers getting off between the 5th and 8th floors get on in the front of the car.

  The number of floors in the boarding section is not fixed, but can be changed according to the number of passengers. Moreover, the number of boarding sections is also variable according to the number of passengers. FIG. 14 shows an example in which the boarding section is divided into three.

  FIG. 14 is a view showing an example of the display screen 71 of the display device 35 installed in the car 13.

On the display screen 71 of the display device 35, a first display area 72 for displaying the number of floors and the driving direction as the current driving state of the car 13, and a second for displaying a message relating to the boarding area. In the example of FIG. 14, the registration between the 11th and 18th floors is further added to the situation where the boarding position for the landing in FIG. 13 is displayed. In the display area 73, there is shown a state in which boarding sections 75a, 75b, 75c divided into three are displayed in a frame 74 indicating the inside of the car. In the boarding section 75a, it is specified that passengers getting off between the 5th and 8th floors get on the rear side of the car. The boarding section 75c specifies that passengers getting off between the 11th and 13th floors get on the center of the car. The boarding position is designated so that passengers getting off between the 16th and 18th floors get on the front side of the car.

  Here, how to divide the boarding section will be specifically described.

  (1) First, as a precondition, the threshold of the number of passengers divided into one boarding area is assumed to be four. The method of determining this threshold is determined by the door width, the size of the car, and the like.

  (2) Now, suppose that no passenger is in the car 13 and no call is registered at the landing. The number of boarding sections in such a case is 1, and the boarding section at this time is referred to as “boarding section 0” (position is the entire car).

  (3) Next, it is assumed that four or less hall calls are assigned to the car 13, and the car 13 moves upward in the building by this call registration. The boarding area for each passenger registered at this time is “boarding area 0”, that is, the entire car.

  (4) Next, it is assumed that the fifth hall call is registered. In this case, since it exceeds the threshold value 4 of passengers that can be divided into one preset boarding zone, “boarding zone 0” is divided into two in the front and rear in the car, and from the side closer to the doorway (the car door 36a) It is assumed that “boarding section 00” and “boarding section 01”.

(5) Passengers are assigned to each section as follows.
In other words, when the number of registered calls exceeds the above threshold and it becomes necessary to divide the boarding area, the average value of the destination floors of the passengers originally assigned to "boarding area 0" and newly added passengers Take. Based on this average value, passengers heading to the floor below the average value are assigned to the “boarding zone 00”, and passengers heading to the floor above the average value are assigned to the “boarding zone 01”.

  For example, assume that four passengers in a certain car 13 are A, B, C, and D, and the destination floors registered by these passengers are the fifth floor, the seventh floor, the eighth floor, and the 18th floor, respectively. . Here, if a new passenger E registers the 11th floor destination floor, the average value of these 5 destination floors is 9.8 floor. Accordingly, passengers A and B that register floors lower than the average value are assigned to “Riding Zone 00”, and passengers C and D that register floors that are higher than the average value are assigned to “Riding Zone 01”. .

  (6) After that, the same applies when call registration is added. Based on the above average value, passengers whose destination floor is less than the average value are registered in “Riding Zone 00” and passengers above the average value. Are assigned to “Boarding section 01”.

  (7) Further, for example, when four or more people are allocated to “boarding section 01” by adding call registration, the average value of the destination floors of the passengers in this “boarding section 01” is set to “boarding section 01”. ”Is newly set as a threshold for classifying passengers who go to the floor below this average value to“ boarding section 010 ”, and passengers going to the floor above the average value are assigned to“ boarding section 011 ”. As a result, there are three boarding zones, “boarding zone 00”, “boarding zone 010”, and “boarding zone 011”, from the side closer to the entrance / exit of the car 13.

  Thus, according to the call registration added, the number of boarding areas is increased and each passenger is distributed to a corresponding boarding area. Here, the driving direction of the car 13 is assumed to be the upward direction, but the same applies to the case of moving downward. In this case, the passengers assigned to the boarding area far from the entrance / exit are passengers that go to the floor below the average value.

  In addition, the timing for displaying the boarding section to the passenger is not always constant. This is because the passengers will be confused because the boarding area will be changed one by one according to the call if it is always displayed. Accordingly, the boarding section is displayed in a state where the call registration for the car 13 is confirmed. For example, the display in the car is when the door is open, and the display at the landing is the timing when the car 13 starts to decelerate to get off to the destination floor.

  The displayed boarding area is erased when it reaches the maximum destination floor (minimum when moving downward) in the destination floor registration information of the passengers assigned to the boarding area.

  Thus, according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to smoothly get off at the destination floor of each passenger by instructing the arrangement of each passenger in the car.

  Even in the configuration of the fourth embodiment, it is possible to get off more smoothly by notifying that there is a passenger getting off as described in the first embodiment.

  Moreover, in each said embodiment, although it comprised so that a passenger might be notified using the audio | voice announcement apparatus and display apparatus which were installed in the hall and the car, For example, it is the same as the portable terminal device which each passenger hold | maintains Notification may be performed.

  In short, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the components without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Moreover, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 2 ... Transmission cable, 11 ... Group management control apparatus, 12a, 12b, 12c ... Elevator control apparatus, 13a, 13b, 13c ... Ride car, 14a, 14b, 14c ... Platform, 15a, 15b, 15c ... Platform destination floor Registration apparatus, 16 ... operation section, 17 ... display section, 21 ... information recording section, 22 ... information collation section, 23 ... information processing section, 24 ... command section, 31 ... registrant recognition apparatus, 32 ... passenger detection apparatus, 33 ... Position information acquisition device, 34 ... Voice announcement device in car, 35 ... Display device in car, 36 ... Door control device, 36a ... Car door, 38 ... Board voice announcement device, 39 ... Board display device, 40 ... landing door, 41 ... display screen, 42 ... first display area, 43 ... second display area, 44 ... frame indicating the interior of the car, 45 ... passengers, 45a ... passengers getting off, 51 ... camera images, 52 ... getting off 53, 54 ... Other passengers on the getting-off route, 55-58 ... Other passengers that do not affect the getting-off passenger, 61 ... Display screen, 62 ... First display area, 63 ... Second display area, 64 ... Frame indicating the inside of the car, 65a, 65b ... Boarding section, 71 ... Display screen, 72 ... First display area, 73 ... Second display area, 74 ... Frame indicating the inside of the car, 75a, 75b, 75c ... Ride section.

Claims (11)

In an elevator system equipped with a landing destination floor registration device for registering a destination floor at the landing of each floor,
Registrant recognition means for recognizing a passenger who has registered a destination floor in the landing destination floor registration device;
Information recording means for associating and recording the passenger recognized by the registrant recognition means and the destination floor of the passenger;
Passenger detection means for detecting passengers in the car;
Information collating means for collating passenger information detected by the passenger detecting means with passenger information recorded in the information recording means;
Information processing means for determining the presence or absence of a passenger getting off at the arrival floor of the car based on the result of checking by the information checking means;
An elevator system comprising: notification means for notifying that there is a passenger getting in the car when the information processing means determines that there is a passenger getting off. The information processing means includes
Based on the verification result by the information verification means, the number of passengers getting off at the arrival floor of the car is detected,
The notification means is
The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the number of passengers detected by the information processing means is notified to notify that there are passengers in the car. Comprising location information acquisition means for acquiring location information of each passenger in the car,
The information processing means includes
Detecting the position of the passenger getting off at the arrival floor of the car based on the collation result by the information collating means and the position information of each passenger obtained by the position information obtaining means,
The notification means is
The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the elevator system notifies that there are passengers in the car including the position of the passengers detected by the information processing means.   The elevator system according to claim 1, further comprising door control means for controlling a door opening / closing operation of the car when the information processing means determines that a passenger gets off. The information processing means includes
Detecting the degree of congestion of the car based on the collation result by the information collating means,
The notification means is
The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein a passenger is notified according to the degree of congestion detected by the information processing means. Comprising location information acquisition means for acquiring location information of each passenger in the car,
The information processing means includes
Detecting the degree of difficulty of getting off the passenger based on the position information of each passenger obtained by the position information acquisition means,
The notification means is
2. The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the passenger is notified according to the degree of difficulty in getting off the vehicle detected by the information processing means. The information processing means includes
Based on the verification result by the information verification means, the presence or absence of passengers getting off at the wrong floor is detected,
The notification means is
2. The elevator system according to claim 1, wherein when the wrong information is detected by the information processing means, the fact is notified. The information processing means includes
8. The elevator system according to claim 7, wherein a destination floor registered by a passenger who gets off the train is canceled from the information recording means. In an elevator system equipped with a landing destination floor registration device for registering a destination floor at the landing of each floor,
Registrant recognition means for recognizing a passenger who has registered a destination floor in the landing destination floor registration device;
Information recording means for associating and recording the passenger recognized by the registrant recognition means and the destination floor of the passenger;
Information processing means for determining the order of getting off based on the destination floor of each passenger recorded in the information recording means, and setting the boarding section of each passenger in the car according to the order of getting off;
An elevator system comprising: notification means for notifying each passenger's boarding section set by the information processing means. The notification means is
10. The elevator system according to claim 9, wherein each passenger notifies the boarding area where the destination floor is registered, of the boarding area. The notification means is
10. The elevator system according to claim 9, wherein a notification of a boarding section is provided in the car.

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