Intelligent building system for providing elevator occupancy information with anonymity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10239728-B2
Application number	US-201615093391-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2016
Priority date	Apr 9, 2015
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

A system and/or method for detecting an occupancy of an elevator cab of an elevator to generate occupancy information is provided. The system and/or method further generates anonymized occupancy information based on the occupancy information and provides the anonymized occupancy information to enable the occupancy of the elevator cab to be presented with anonymity for occupants.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
detecting an occupancy of an elevator cab of an elevator to generate occupancy information;
generating anonymized occupancy information based on the occupancy information; and
providing the anonymized occupancy information to a device communicatively coupled to a display, the device utilizing the anonymized occupancy information to present an image rectified with obscuration via a display, the image rectified with the obscuration depicts the occupancy of the elevator cab anonymity for occupants.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the occupancy of the elevator cab of the elevator to generate occupancy information further comprises capturing by a detector images of an inside of the elevator cab.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the occupants include mobile entities and accoutrement of the mobile entities.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a display in an elevator lobby is configured to perform the providing of the anonymized occupancy information.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a request for the occupancy information initiated by a device external to the processor.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a computing device of an elevator sub-system is configured to control operations of the elevator including a bypass feature with respect to the occupancy of the elevator cab.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the occupancy information includes a total number of occupants or a location of each occupant.

8. A system, comprising:
a detector configured to detect an occupancy of an elevator cab of an elevator and to provide occupancy information based on the detection of the occupancy;
a processor, communicatively coupled to the detector, configured to receive the occupancy information from the detector, to generate anonymized occupancy information based on the occupancy information, and to generate an image rectified with obscuration utilizing the anonymized occupancy information; and
a display, communicatively coupled to the processor, configured to receive and present the image rectified with the obscuration, the image rectified with the obscuration depicts the occupancy of the elevator cab anonymity for occupants.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the detector is a camera configured to capture images of an inside of the elevator cab in support of the detecting of the occupancy of the elevator cab of the elevator to generate occupancy information.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the occupants include mobile entities and accoutrement of the mobile entities.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein a display in an elevator lobby is configured to perform the providing of the anonymized occupancy information.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processor is configured to receive a request for the occupancy information initiated by a device external to the processor.

13. The system of claims 8 , wherein the processor is a computing device of an elevator sub-system of the system, and
wherein the computing device is configured to control operations of the elevator including a bypass feature with respect to the occupancy of the elevator cab.

14. The system of claims 8 , wherein the occupancy information includes a total number of occupants or a location of each occupant.

Assignees

• Carrier Corp

Inventors

• Finn Alan Matthew
• Veronesi William A
• Hsu Arthur
• Fang Hui

Classifications

• B66B1/3476 Primary

  Load weighing or car passenger counting devices (B66B5/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B66B5/0006 Primary

  Monitoring devices or performance analysers (B66B5/02 takes precedence) · CPC title