Method for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system, arrangement for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system and an elevator system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9561932-B2
Application number	US-201314079370-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2013
Priority date	Nov 14, 2012
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

A method for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system for a user of the elevator system is provided, which elevator system includes a plurality of elevators, and an apparatus that communicates with the elevator system, more particularly with the control system of it, and that is available to a user, which apparatus includes a display. In the method a real-time view of the landscape behind the display is transmitted via the display to the front of the display to the user, and predetermined graphics are presented to the user on the display at a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or in the immediate proximity of said point. An arrangement for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system for a user of the elevator system, and also to an elevator arrangement is provided, which implement the aforementioned method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system for a user of the elevator system, which elevator system comprises a plurality of elevators, and an apparatus that communicates with a control system of the elevator system, and that is available to a user, which apparatus comprises a display, the method comprising
transmitting a real-time view of the landscape via the display to the user, and
presenting predetermined graphics to the user on the display at a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or in the immediate proximity of said point.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a real-time view of the landscape behind the display is transmitted via the display to the front of the display to the user.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein on the display a point is determined that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the aforementioned predetermined graphics cover a part of the aforementioned real-time view.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined graphics are an arrow icon, which points on the display to the point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or an icon, which surrounds on the display a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or graphics, which are presented on the display at a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determination of the aforementioned point is repeated, and predetermined graphics are presented to the user on the display at the newly determined point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or in the immediate proximity of the newly determined point in question.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein for transmitting a real-time view, the landscape is videophotographed continuously and the video image is presented on the display.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the aforementioned allocated elevator or elevator group, which comprises the aforementioned allocated elevator, is identified in the video image.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the landscape is photographed with a camera, which is integrated into the apparatus comprising the aforementioned display.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is portable.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display is at least partly transparent, in which case the real-time view of the landscape behind the display is visible to the user on the front of the display through the display.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein with the apparatus the destination floor selection of the user is received and a destination call signal is sent to the control system of the elevator system, which signal identifies the destination floor selected by the user.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein that with the apparatus a response signal to the destination call signal sent to it is received from the control system of the elevator system, which response signal contains information identifying the allocated elevator, and the elevator allocated to the user is identified for the user in the aforementioned manner.

14. An arrangement for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system for a user of the elevator system, which elevator system comprises a plurality of elevators, and an apparatus that communicates with a control system of the elevator system, and that is available to a user, which apparatus comprises a display, wherein the apparatus is arranged to transmit to the user via the display a real-time view of the landscape, and to present to the user predetermined graphics on the display at the point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or in the immediate proximity of said point.

15. An elevator system, which comprises a plurality of elevators, and a control system for controlling the aforementioned elevators, which control system is arranged to allocate an elevator of the elevator system in response to a received destination call, wherein the elevator system comprises an arrangement, according to claim 14 , for identifying an elevator allocated by an elevator system for a user of the elevator system.

16. The method according to claim 2 , wherein on the display a point is determined that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator.

17. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the aforementioned predetermined graphics cover a part of the aforementioned real-time view.

18. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the aforementioned predetermined graphics cover a part of the aforementioned real-time view.

19. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the predetermined graphics are an arrow icon, which points on the display to the point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or an icon, which surrounds on the display a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or graphics, which are presented on the display at a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator.

20. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined graphics are an arrow icon, which points on the display to the point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or an icon, which surrounds on the display a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator, or graphics, which are presented on the display at a point that transmits to the user a real-time view of the allocated elevator.

Assignees

• Kone Corp

Inventors

• Salmikuukka Jukka
• Elomaa Niko

Classifications

• B66B1/468 Primary

  Call registering systems · CPC title

• B66B2201/4653

  wherein the call is registered using portable devices · CPC title

• B66B3/006 Primary

  for guiding passengers to their assigned elevator car · CPC title