Work management system and work management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9953374-B2
Application number	US-201514861464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2015
Priority date	Apr 18, 2013
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A work management system ( 1 ) includes: an image capturing device ( 20 ) worn by a worker; and a server device ( 60 ). The image capturing device ( 20 ) includes: an image capturing section ( 21 ) for capturing an image of a work range of the worker; and a communication section ( 30 ) for transmitting, to the server device ( 60 ), at least one of (i) the image captured by the image capturing section ( 21 ) and (ii) generated information generated in accordance with the image. The server device ( 60 ) includes a control section ( 70 ) for managing the at least one of the image and the generated information which one is received from the communication section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A work management system comprising:
an image capturing device worn by a worker;
a server device; and
a plurality of display devices each of which has (i) an upper left multidimensional code at its upper left corner, (ii) an upper right multidimensional code at its upper right corner, (iii) a lower left multidimensional code at its lower left corner, and (iv) a lower right multidimensional code at its lower right corner,
wherein the image capturing device includes:
an image capturing section capturing an image of a work range of the worker;
a multidimensional code recognizing section recognizing multidimensional codes contained in the image captured by the image capturing section;
an input support information storing section in which pieces of input support information are stored, each of the pieces of the input support information being information in which combinations of two of the upper left multidimensional code, the upper right multidimensional code, the lower left multidimensional code, and the lower right multidimensional code, which are arranged on a corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, are associated with respective display instructions each including display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and direction information indicative of a predetermined direction;
an input information determining section determining, as input information, one of the display instructions which corresponds the any one of the combinations when a combination of the multidimensional codes recognized by the multidimensional code recognizing section matches any one of the combinations; and
a communication section transmitting, to the server device, the input information determined by the input information determining section, wherein the server device includes:
a display control section transmitting, to the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices which is identified by the display device identification information included in the one of the display instructions thus received, a scrolling instruction to scroll a display screen in a direction corresponding to the direction information included in the one of the display instructions thus received when the display control section receives the one of the display instructions which includes the display device identification information and the direction information, and

wherein the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices scrolls the display screen in accordance with the scrolling instruction received from the display control section.

2. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein: the input support information storing section stores therein at least one of:
(1) pieces of input support information in each of which a combination of the upper left multidimensional code and the upper right multidimensional code, which are arranged on the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, is associated with a display instruction including the display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and the direction information which indicates an upper direction,
(2) pieces of input support information in each of which a combination of the lower left multidimensional code and the lower right multidimensional code, which are arranged on the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, is associated with a display instruction including the display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and the direction information which indicates a lower direction,
(3) pieces of input support information in each of which a combination of the upper left multidimensional code and the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, is associated with a display instruction including the display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and the direction information which indicates a left direction, and
(4) pieces of input support information in each of which a combination of the upper right multidimensional code and the lower right multidimensional code, which are arranged on the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, is associated with a display instruction including the display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and the direction information which indicative of a right direction.

3. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the image capturing device is worn on the worker's head.

4. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the image capturing device is a glasses-type image capturing device.

5. A method of managing a work management system, the method comprising:
(a) capturing, by an image capturing section of an image capturing device worn by a worker, an image of a work range of the worker, wherein the work range includes at least one of a plurality of display devices each of which has (i) an upper left multidimensional code at its upper left corner, (ii) an upper right multidimensional code at its upper right corner, (iii) a lower left multidimensional code at its lower left corner, and (iv) a lower right multidimensional code at its lower right corner;
(b) recognizing, by the image capturing device, multidimensional codes contained in the image captured by the image capturing section, wherein the image capturing device includes an input support information storing section in which pieces of input support information are stored, each of the pieces of the input support information being information in which combinations of two of the upper left multidimensional code, the upper right multidimensional code, the lower left multidimensional code, and the lower right multidimensional code, which are arranged on a corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, are associated with respective display instructions each including display device identification information, which identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, and direction information indicative of a predetermined direction;
(c) determining by the image capturing device, as input information, one of the display instructions which corresponds to any one of the stored combinations when a combination of the recognized multidimensional codes matches the any of the stored combinations;
(d) transmitting, to the server device and by the image capturing device the determined input information;
(e) upon receipt of the input information being the one of the display instructions which includes the display device identification information and the direction information, transmitting by the server device and to the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices which is identified by the display device identification information included in the one of the display instructions thus received, a scrolling instruction to scroll a display screen in a direction corresponding to the direction information included in the one of the display instructions thus received; and
(f) scrolling, by the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, the display screen in accordance with the scrolling instruction received from the server device.

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Sugiyama Sadao
• Ishibashi Hiroyuki
• Tsuchiya Hideo
• Sugihara Shiro
• Yoshikawa Kiyoshi

Classifications

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• G06Q10/063114

  Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group · CPC title

• Y02P90/20

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G02B2027/0138

  comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera · CPC title

• G06Q40/125 Primary

  Finance or payroll · CPC title