Work management system and work management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9959578-B2
Application number	US-201514861627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2015
Priority date	Apr 18, 2013
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 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;
a plurality of display devices; and
a related information storing section in which work target identification information and related information are stored in association with each other, the work target identification information identifying a machine or an object to be a work target, the related information being related to the work target,
wherein the image capturing device includes:
an image capturing section capturing an image of a work range of the worker;
a work target storing section in which the work target identification information is stored;
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 a combination of the multidimensional codes which combination corresponds to a corresponding one of the plurality of display devices is associated with an algorithm in accordance with which a display instruction, including (i) display device identification information that identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices and (ii) the work target identification information stored in the work target storing section, is set as input information;
an input information determining section determining the input information in accordance with (I) the combination of the multidimensional codes recognized by the multidimensional code recognizing section and (II) a corresponding one of the pieces of the input support information; 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 (a) reading, from the related information storing section, the related information corresponding to the work target identification information included in the received display instruction when the display control section receives the display instruction including the work target identification information and the display device identification information and (b) transmitting the read related information to the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices which is identified by the display device identification information included in the received display instruction when the display control section receives the display instruction including the work target identification information and the display device identification information,

wherein the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices displays the related information received from the display control section.

2. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the work target identification information is information that identifies a product or a lot produced by carrying out work.

3. The work management system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein:
a plurality of multidimensional codes are arranged on a periphery of each of the plurality of display devices; and
the combination of the multidimensional codes included in each of the pieces of the input support information indicates a combination of the plurality of multidimensional codes arranged on the periphery of a corresponding one of the plurality of display devices.

4. The work management system as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the plurality of multidimensional codes arranged on the periphery of the each of the plurality of display devices includes (i) an upper left multidimensional code arranged at an upper left corner of the each of the plurality of display devices, (ii) an upper right multidimensional code arranged at an upper right corner of the each of the plurality of display devices, (iii) a lower left multidimensional code arranged at a lower left corner of the each of the plurality of display devices, and (iv) a lower right multidimensional code arranged at a lower right corner of the each of the plurality of display devices.

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

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

7. 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 device;
(b) recognizing, by the image capturing device, multidimensional codes contained in the image captured by the image capturing section;
(c) determining, by the image capturing device, input information in accordance with (I) a combination of the recognized multidimensional codes and (II) pieces of the input support information, wherein an input support information storing section stores the pieces of input support information, each of the pieces of the input support information being information in which a combination of multidimensional codes which combination corresponds to a corresponding one of the plurality of display devices is associated with an algorithm in accordance with which a display instruction, including (i) display device identification information that identifies the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices and (ii) work target identification information stored in a work target storing section, is set as input information;
(d) transmitting, to a server device and from the image capturing device, the determined input information;
(e) upon receipt of the transmitted input information, which is the display instruction including the work target identification information and the display device identification information, from the image capturing device, reading, from a related information storing section and by the server device related information corresponding to the work target identification information included in the received display instruction, and transmitting the read related information to the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices which is identified by the display device identification information included in the received display instruction wherein the related information storing section stores the work target identification information and the related information in association with each other, the work target identification information identifying a machine or an object to be a work target, the related information being related to the work target; and
(f) displaying, by the corresponding one of the plurality of display devices, the read related information.

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04N23/51

  Housings · CPC title

• G05B2219/45175

  Glasses, spectacles · CPC title

• G02B2027/014

  comprising information/image processing systems · CPC title

• G06K7/10722

  Photodetector array or CCD scanning · CPC title

• H04N21/4223

  Cameras (H04N23/00 takes precedence) · CPC title