Room occupant monitoring system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10515276-B2
Application number	US-201916248174-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 15, 2019
Priority date	Jan 31, 2018
Publication date	Dec 24, 2019
Grant date	Dec 24, 2019

Abstract

In a room occupant monitoring system, if any ID information stored in a personal data storage section matches ID information on an entry applicant acquired from an ID storage medium by an information acquisition section and a number of room occupants detected based on results of permission for room entry and exit has reached a maximum number of persons detectable from a monitoring camera's video, a control unit of a server compares degrees of priority, which are stored in a storage section of the server, between the entry applicant and all the room occupants and (i) refuses permission for the entry applicant having a lower degree of priority than all the room occupants to enter the room or, (ii) if there is any room occupant having a lower degree of priority than the entry applicant, performs room exit request processing for requesting the lower-degree-of-priority room occupant to leave the room.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A room occupant monitoring system comprising:
a personal data storage section that stores respective pieces of ID information on persons;
an information acquisition section that is provided at an entrance of a room and acquires, at time of entry and exit of a person into and from the room, a piece of ID information from an ID storage medium that the person carries;
a monitoring camera that is installed in the room and captures a video of an inside of the room; and
a server that comprises a control unit and a storage section, the control unit containing a processor and functioning as, upon execution of a control program by the processor,
a room entry and exit management section that performs ID authentication by comparison of the pieces of ID information stored in the personal data storage section with the piece of ID information acquired from the ID storage medium of the person by the information acquisition section and determines, based on a result of the ID authentication, whether or not to allow the person to enter or leave the room,
a room occupant detecting section that detects, based on results of permission for persons to enter and leave the room determined by the room entry and exit management section, persons present in the room at time of the ID authentication and a number of the persons in the room at time of the ID authentication, and
a person detecting section that analyzes the video captured by the monitoring camera to detect an individual person in the video,
wherein the room entry and exit management section allows the storage section to store respective predetermined degrees of priority for the persons to be allowed to stay in the room, and
if, upon the ID authentication for an entry applicant newly wishing to enter the room, one of the pieces of ID information stored in the personal data storage section matches the piece of ID information on the entry applicant acquired from the ID storage medium by the information acquisition section and the number of persons detected by the room occupant detecting section has reached a maximum number of persons detectable by the person detecting section, the room entry and exit management section compares the degree of priority for the entry applicant with the degrees of priority for all persons under management of the room occupant detecting section and, (i) if the degree of priority for the entry applicant is lower than the degrees of priority for all the persons under the management, refuses permission for the entry applicant to enter the room or, (ii) if the degree of priority for any one of all the persons under the management is lower than the degree of priority for the entry applicant, performs room exit request processing for requesting the person having the lower degree of priority to leave the room.

2. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein
the personal data storage section stores information on respective posts of the persons, and
the room entry and exit management section determines the respective degrees of priority for the persons based on the information on the respective posts stored in the personal data storage section and allows the storage section to store the determined degrees of priority.

3. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein
the personal data storage section stores, on each of the persons, stayability information indicating whether or not the person is guaranteed against refusal of stay in the room, and
as for the person on whom the stayability information indicates that the person is guaranteed against refusal of stay in the room, regardless of the degree of priority, the room entry and exit management section allows the person to enter the room or avoids performing the room exit request processing.

4. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein when the number of persons being allowed to stay in the room becomes lower than the maximum number of persons detectable by the person detecting section, the room entry and exit management section performs notification processing for notifying the person being refused permission to enter the room or the person being subject to the room exit request processing of a message of permission to enter the room.

5. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein when, after permission for a person to enter the room, the number of persons detected by the person detecting section exceeds the number of persons detected by the room occupant detecting section, the room entry and exit management section performs watching request processing for requesting the person allowed to enter the room to keep watch over a person having entered the room along with the person allowed to enter the room.

6. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein if no piece of ID information on a person detected by the person detecting section is stored in the personal data storage section, the room entry and exit management section adds a predetermined number to the number of persons being allowed to stay in the room to obtain a number of persons in the room and then determines whether or not the number of persons in the room has reached the maximum number of persons detectable by the person detecting section.

7. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 2 , wherein if the persons being allowed to stay in the room include a person having a post exceeding a predetermined level, the room entry and exit management section excludes the person having a post exceeding the predetermined level from counting as a person being allowed to stay in the room and then determines whether or not the number of persons being allowed to stay in the room has reached the maximum number of persons detectable by the person detecting section.

8. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein if one of the pieces of ID information stored in the personal data storage section matches the piece of ID information on the entry applicant acquired from the ID storage medium by the information acquisition section and the number of persons detected by the room occupant detecting section is smaller than the maximum number of persons detectable by the person detecting section, the room entry and exit management section allows the entry applicant to enter the room.

9. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein if, upon the ID authentication for an exit applicant newly wishing to leave the room, one of the pieces of ID information stored in the personal data storage section matches the piece of ID information on the exit applicant acquired from the ID storage medium by the information acquisition section, the room entry and exit management section allows the exit applicant to leave the room and performs notification processing for notifying the entry applicant being refused permission to enter the room or the person being subject to the room exit request processing of a message of permission to enter the room.

10. The room occupant monitoring system according to claim 2 , wherein
the personal data storage section stores, on each of the persons, stayability information indicating whether or not the person is guaranteed against refusal of stay in the room, and
if the personal data storage section stores the stayability information on the entry applicant indicating that the entry applicant is a person guaranteed against refusal of stay in the room, the room entry and exit management section performs the room exit request processing for the person having the lowest degree of priority among the persons in the room even if the degree of priority for the entry applicant is lower than

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Sakashita Fumiya
• Hiranuma Yoichi
• Sakaguchi Shoichi
• Fujiwara Shohei

Classifications

• G07C2209/04

  Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights · CPC title

• G07C9/37

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition · CPC title

• G07C9/22

  in combination with an identity check of the pass holder · CPC title

• G06K9/00778

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07C9/00158

  Physics · mapped topic