Baggage deposit machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12344400-B2
Application number	US-202118041713-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2021
Priority date	Aug 20, 2020
Publication date	Jul 1, 2025
Grant date	Jul 1, 2025

Abstract

In order to reduces a risk that a user of a baggage check-in machine is infected with a virus or the like, a baggage check-in machine ( 1 ) includes: an inner display ( 11 ) that displays an image which includes an operation target region and which is related to baggage check-in; an image formation section ( 30 ) that causes the image displayed on the inner display ( 11 ) to be formed as an aerial image in air around the baggage check-in machine ( 1 ); an operation identification section ( 102 ) that identifies an operation conducted with respect to a part in the aerial image which corresponds to the operation target region; and a process performance section ( 105 ) that carries out, in accordance with the operation which has been identified, a process related to the baggage check-in.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A baggage check-in machine, comprising:
a display section that displays an image which includes an operation target region and which is related to baggage check-in;
an image formation section that causes the image displayed on the display section to be formed as an aerial image in air around said baggage check-in machine;
an operation identification section that identifies an operation conducted by a user with respect to a part in the aerial image which corresponds to the operation target region; and
a process performance section that carries out, in accordance with the operation which has been identified, a process related to the baggage check-in.

2. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
said baggage check-in machine is provided in a vicinity of a baggage placement area included in a conveyance device that conveys the baggage;
the user is a person who deposits the baggage at the baggage placement area; and
the display section and the image formation section are disposed such that the aerial image is formed at a position which allows the user to view the aerial image and to conduct the operation.

3. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 2 , further comprising:
a face detection section that detects a position of a face of the user,
the image formation section forming the aerial image toward the position which has been detected.

4. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 3 , wherein:
in a case where the position which has been detected falls within a predetermined region that includes a position at which the user faces and is in front of said baggage check-in machine, the operation identification section identifies the operation; and
in a case where the position which has been detected falls outside the predetermined region, the operation identification section stops identification of the operation.

5. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 3 , wherein:
in a case where the position which has been detected falls within a predetermined region that includes a position at which the user faces and is in front of said baggage check-in machine, an object detection section carries out detection for detecting an object in a vicinity of a position at which the aerial image is formed; and
in a case where the position which has been detected falls outside the predetermined region, the object detection section stops detection of the object.

6. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising:
a display control section that controls the display section and a display device to display the image; and
a mode switching section that switches between a mode in which the display control section controls the display section to display the image and a mode in which control section controls the display device to display the image,
the operation identification section further identifying an operation conducted with respect to the operation target region in the image which is displayed on the display device.

7. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising a display control section that controls a display device to display a display-only image which does not include the operation target region.

8. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the aerial image is a stereoscopic image.

9. A baggage check-in machine, comprising:
a display section that displays an image which includes an operation target region and which is related to baggage check-in;
an image formation section that causes the image displayed on the display section to be formed as an aerial image in air around said baggage check-in machine;
an operation identification section that identifies an operation conducted by a user with respect to a part in the aerial image which corresponds to the operation target region;
a process performance section that carries out, in accordance with the operation which has been identified, a process related to the baggage check-in; and
an image projection section that projects a projection image on a floor surface in front of said baggage check-in machine, the projection image indicating a standing position the display for the user.

10. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 9 , further comprising:
a face detection section that detects a position of a face of the user; and
a projection control section that determines, in accordance with the position which has been detected, a projection position of the projection image.

11. The baggage check-in machine as set forth in claim 10 , wherein the projection control section causes the projection position to be farther away from said baggage check-in machine as a height of the position which has been detected from the floor surface increases.

Assignees

• Daifuku Kk

Inventors

• Tsujimoto Kazushi
• Isomura Takuya
• Oi Takashi

Classifications

• B65G2201/0264

  Luggage · CPC title

• B65G17/066

  specially adapted to follow a curved path (for individual load carriers B65G17/22) · CPC title

• B64F1/366

  Check-in counters · CPC title

• G06F1/1601

  Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays (constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64) · CPC title

• G06F1/1639

  the display being based on projection · CPC title