Elevator multimedia information display

• US 10,068,259 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cai, Fang, Ding, Jing, Li, Jing, Wang, Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): Richer, Joni
• Application Number:
  US15/291,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20180101873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/008 Displaying information not related to the elevator, e.g. weather, publicity, internet or TV
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/10 Special adaptations of display systems for operation with variable images
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/06 Remotely controlled electronic signs other than labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, a computer system and a computer program product for multimedia information display in an elevator. According to an embodiment of the method, moving status information of an elevator is obtained. The moving status information comprises at least a source floor information indicating where a passenger enters the elevator and a target floor information indicating where the elevator is moving. The multimedia information to be displayed is determined based on the moving status information of the elevator and the determined multimedia information is displayed in the elevator.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for multimedia information display in an elevator, the method comprising:

obtaining a moving status information of the elevator, the moving status information comprising at least source floor information where each passenger of a quantity of passengers enter the elevator and target floor information for each target floor where the elevator is moving to;

determining multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator;

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at each source floor of a multiplicity of source floors; and

displaying the determined multimedia information in the elevator in accordance with the prioritizing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator comprises:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each target floor based on the target floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the multimedia information tag is pre-defined based on a type of resident in at least one floor of a building where the elevator is running.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator comprises:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each source floor based on the source floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of a multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the multimedia information tag is pre-defined based on a type of resident in at least one floor of a building where the elevator is running.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the moving status information of the elevator further comprises at least one of the following:

a current floor where the moving elevator is, a moving direction of the elevator and a quantity of passengers entering the elevator on each source floor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the prioritizing is further based on at least one of the following rules of prioritization:

prioritizing multimedia information in accordance with arrival sequence of multiple target floors; and

prioritizing multimedia information with a matched length as a time needed for the elevator to arrive at a specific target floor.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at multiple source floors comprises:

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed according to source floor information associated with a greatest quantity of passengers entering the elevator from a corresponding source floor.

9. A computer system for multimedia information display in an elevator, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;

a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of;

obtaining a moving status information of the elevator, the moving status information comprising at least source floor information where each passenger of a quantity of passengers enter the elevator and target floor information for each target floor where the elevator is moving to;

determining multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator;

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at each source floor of a multiplicity of source floors; and

displaying the determined multimedia information in the elevator in accordance with the prioritizing.

10. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the set of computer program instructions is executed by at least one of the processors in order to determine multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator by:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each target floor based on the target floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

11. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the set of computer program instructions is executed by at least one of the processors in order to determine multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator by:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each source floor based on the source floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of a multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

12. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the moving status information of the elevator further comprises at least one of the following:

a current floor where the moving elevator is, a moving direction of the elevator and a quantity of passengers entering the elevator on each source floor.

13. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the prioritizing is further based on at least one of the following rules of prioritization:

prioritizing multimedia information in accordance with arrival sequence of multiple target floors; and

prioritizing multimedia information with a matched length as a time needed for the elevator to arrive at a specific target floor.

14. The computer system of claim 9, wherein prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at multiple source floors comprises:

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed according to source floor information associated with a greatest quantity of passengers entering the elevator from a corresponding source floor.

15. A computer program product for multimedia information display in an elevator, comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the program instructions capable of being executed by at least one processor, to cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:

obtaining a moving status information of the elevator, the moving status information comprising at least source floor information where each passenger of a quantity of passengers enter the elevator and target floor information for each target floor where the elevator is moving to;

determining multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator;

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at each source floor of a multiplicity of source floors; and

displaying the determined multimedia information in the elevator in accordance with the prioritizing.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein determining the multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator comprises:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each target floor based on the target floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein determining the multimedia information to be displayed based on the moving status information of the elevator comprises:

obtaining a plurality of multimedia information tags relevant to each source floor based on the source floor information, each multimedia information tag indicating a specific type of a multimedia information; and

determining multimedia information with a same type as indicated by the multimedia information tag as the multimedia information to be displayed.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the moving status information of the elevator further comprises at least one of the following:

a current floor where the moving elevator is, a moving direction of the elevator and a quantity of passengers entering the elevator on each source floor.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the prioritizing is further based on at least one of the following rules of prioritization:

prioritizing multimedia information in accordance with arrival sequence of multiple target floors; and

prioritizing multimedia information with a matched length as a time needed for the elevator to arrive at a specific target floor.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed in accordance with the quantity of passengers entering in the elevator at multiple source floors comprises:

prioritizing the determined multimedia information to be displayed according to source floor information associated with a greatest quantity of passengers entering the elevator from a corresponding source floor.