Interaction terminal and system for elevator

• US 10,450,163 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2017
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Otis Elevator Company (Otis Worldwide Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Otis Elevator Company (Otis Worldwide Corp.)
• Inventors: Sha, Dan Qing, Bonilha, Murilo, Chen, Yi Lin, Ding, Jin Lei, Zhang, Jing Long, Yang, Ke
• Primary Examiner(s): Warren, David S
• Application Number:
  US15/454,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20170260024A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• Field of Search: 187387
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/2408 where the allocation of a call to an elevator car is of importance, i.e. by means of a supervisory or group controller
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/2458 For elevator systems with multiple shafts and a single car per shaft
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/3461 between the elevator control system and remote or mobile stations
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/103 Destination call input before entering the elevator car
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4615 Wherein the destination is registered before boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4653 wherein the call is registered using portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4661 for priority users
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators

Abstract

An elevator interactive terminal and an elevator interactive system. The elevator interactive system of the present invention comprises an elevator interactive terminal, configured with a social communication media module, wherein a user is registered as a first registered user in the social communication media module; and a server coupled to a communication bus of an elevator system, configured with the social communication media module and to register an elevator as the second registered user in the social communication media module, wherein, based on the social communication media module, interactive communication is performed between the first registered user on the elevator interactive terminal corresponding to the user and the second registered user on the server corresponding to the elevator.

Claims

1. An elevator interactive terminal, configured with a social communication media module, wherein a user is registered as a first registered user in the social communication media module, wherein the elevator interactive terminal is configured for, interactive communication between the first registered user and a second registered user through a social communication media module, the second registered user corresponding to one or more elevator controllers, wherein the second registered user is registered by the elevator controller in the social communication media module;

the elevator interactive terminal communicating with the one or more elevator controllers through a server comprising;

a first transcoding module configured to convert information in a transmission from the first registered user into information that complies with an elevator bus data format, and

a second transcoding module configured to convert information in a transmission from the one or more elevator controllers into information with a format that is readable by the social communication media module.

2. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the social communication media module is WeChat, WhatsApp, Line, Weibo, Twitter or Facebook.

3. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the elevator interactive terminal is a smart mobile terminal.

4. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the elevator interactive terminal is configured for the first registered user to request to add the second registered user as a friend based on the social communication media module.

5. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 4, wherein content subject to interactive communication between the first registered user and the second registered user is limited by a friend type of the first registered user for the second registered user.

6. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 5, wherein the first registered user is an ordinary friend of the second registered user, and the content subject to interactive communication between the first registered user and the second registered user comprises:

querying of elevator running state information and corresponding first query result information returned;

or

an elevator calling instruction and corresponding elevator dispatching result information returned.

7. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 5, wherein the first registered user is a special friend of the second registered user, and the content subject to interactive communication between the first registered user and the second registered user comprises:

querying of an elevator maintenance schedule and corresponding second query result information returned;

an elevator control instruction;

or

elevator maintenance state information.

8. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 6, wherein the first query result information comprises:

a position of a floor where an elevator car is currently located, an elevator running speed or information about the degree of congestion of the car.

9. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 8, wherein the position of a floor where an elevator car is currently located is acquired by the social communication media module of a server initiating a locating query.

10. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 6, wherein the elevator calling instruction comprises an initial floor and a destination floor, and the corresponding elevator dispatching result information comprises a serial number of an elevator assigned, a position of a floor where the elevator assigned is currently located and a running direction.

11. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first registered user is further classified into a VIP user, a disabled user and a normal user based on a user identity, wherein the VIP user and the disabled user have a higher priority, with respect to the normal user, to perform interactive communication with the second registered user.

12. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein content subject to interactive communication between the first registered user and the second registered user comprises text information, voice information and/or image information.

13. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 12, wherein the image information sent by the second registered user comes from an image sensor in a corresponding elevator car.

14. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second registered user publishes information via the social communication media module, and the first registered user of the elevator interactive terminal acquires the published information via the social communication media module.

15. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second registered user of the elevator is correspondingly registered by an elevator group, which is composed of multiple elevators, in the social communication media module.

16. The elevator interactive terminal according to claim 1, wherein the first registered user and the second registered user further perform interactive communication via cloud, and the content subject to interactive communication between the first registered user and the second registered user is stored in a cloud server of the cloud.