Work management system and work management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9953376-B2
Application number	US-201514861673-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
an image storing section,
wherein the image capturing device includes:
an image capturing section capturing a moving image of a work range of the worker; and
a communication section transmitting, to the server device, at least one of (i) the moving image captured by the image capturing section and (ii) generated information generated in accordance with the moving image,

wherein the server device includes:
a management section managing the at least one of the moving image and the generated information received from the communication section; and
a worker information storing section in which, for each region where a machine is provided, (i) worker identification information that identifies workers who work in the each region and (ii) particular worker identification information that identifies a particular worker out of the workers,

wherein the management section includes:
a machine signal receiving section receiving, from a machine, a status signal indicative of a status of the machine; and
a trouble information processing section storing, in the image storing section, the moving image which is captured by the image capturing section when the machine signal receiving section receives an abnormality start signal, which is the status signal indicating that an abnormality occurred or that action started to be taken against the abnormality, until when the machine signal receiving section received the status signal indicating that the abnormality is overcome, as an abnormality occurrence moving image, and

wherein the trouble information processing section (i) specifies, from the worker information storing section, worker identification information which corresponds to a region where the machine having outputted the abnormality start signal is provided and (ii) stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image captured by the image capturing section of the image capturing device which is worn by a worker indicated by the worker identification information thus specified, in association with the worker identification information.

2. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the trouble information processing section stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image in association with machine identification information which identifies the machine that has outputted the abnormality start signal.

3. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
the image capturing device includes:
a multidimensional code recognizing section recognizing multidimensional codes contained in the image captured by the image capturing section; and
a machine inspection signal generating section generating a machine inspection signal to which machine inspector identification information that identifies the worker wearing the image capturing device is added, in a case where the multidimensional codes recognized by the multidimensional code recognizing section correspond to a start of an inspection with respect to the machine;

the communication section transmits, to the server device, the machine inspection signal generated by the machine inspection signal generating section; and
the trouble information processing section stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image captured by the image capturing section of the image capturing device which is worn by the worker indicated by the machine inspector identification information that is added to the machine inspection signal received from the communication section, in association with the machine inspector identification information.

4. The work management system as set forth in claim 3 ,
wherein:
in a case where the trouble information processing section does not receive the machine inspection signal from the communication section within a predetermined time period, the trouble information processing section (a) specifies, from the worker information storing section, particular worker identification information which corresponds to a region where the machine having outputted the abnormality start signal is provided and (b) stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image captured by the image capturing section of the image capturing device which is worn by a worker indicated by the particular worker identification information thus specified, in association with the particular worker identification information.

5. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
the image capturing device includes:
a multidimensional code recognizing section recognizing multidimensional codes contained in the image captured by the image capturing section; and
a product inspection signal generating section generating a product inspection signal to which product inspector identification information that identifies the worker wearing the image capturing device is added, in a case where the multidimensional codes recognized by the multidimensional code recognizing section correspond to a start of an inspection with respect to a product;

the communication section transmits, to the server device, the product inspection signal generated by the product inspection signal generating section; and
the trouble information processing section stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image captured by the image capturing section of the image capturing device which is worn by the worker indicated by the product inspector identification information added to the product inspection signal received from the communication section, in association with the product inspector identification information.

6. The work management system as set forth in claim 5 ,
wherein:
in a case where the trouble information processing section does not receive the product inspection signal from the communication section within a predetermined time period, the trouble information processing section (a) specifies, from the worker information storing section, particular worker identification information which corresponds to a region where the machine having outputted the abnormality start signal is provided and (b) stores, in the image storing section, the abnormality occurrence moving image captured by the image capturing section of the image capturing device which is worn by a worker indicated by the particular worker identification information thus specified, in association with the particular worker identification information.

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

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

9. A method of managing a work management system, the method comprising:
(a) capturing, by an image capturing device worn by a worker, a moving image of a work range of the worker;
(b) transmitting, to a server device and by the image capturing device, at least one of (i) the moving image and (ii) generated information generated in accordance with the moving image;
(c) storing, by a worker information storing section of the server device, for each region where a machine is provided, (i) worker identification information that identifies workers who work in the each region and (ii) particular worker identification information that identifies a particular worker out of the workers;
(d) receiving, from a machine and by the server device, a status signal indicative of a status of the machine;
(e) storing, in an image storing section of the server device, the moving i

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• G06Q10/0639 Primary

  Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations · CPC title

• G02B2027/0138

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

• G02B2027/0178

  Eyeglass type (eyeglass details G02C) · CPC title

• G09G2370/16

  Use of wireless transmission of display information · CPC title