Voice Recognition Apparatus For Elevator and Its Control Method

• US 20130220740A1
• Filed: 06/28/2011
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jae Hyeok Yoo
• Original Assignee: Jae Hyeok Yoo
• Inventors: Yoo, Jae Hyeok
• Application Number:
  US13/389,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20130220740A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/380
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/34 Details , e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4623 Wherein the destination is registered after boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4646 using voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence

Abstract

Disclosed is a voice recognition apparatus for an elevator and its control method which can be installed irrespective of an elevator manufacturer and make it possible to help a visually handicapped person or an audibly handicapped person to easily use the elevator with the aid of a voice recognition function. The voice recognition part according to the present invention includes a microphone for detecting a voice signal from an elevator passenger; a voice recognition control part which recognizes a voice signal detected by the microphone by way of a previously set voice recognition program, outputs a voice recognition command corresponding to a hall call and a floor selection and outputs a signal for a display of a voice recognition procedure by means of the audio recognition program and a result of the voice recognition; a voice recognition database for storing the voice recognition program and a previously set voice recognition information; a voice recognition time display part which is turned on and off in accordance with a display signal from the voice recognition control part; and a voice recognition audible display part for outputting a voice signal in accordance with a display signal from the voice recognition control part.

Claims

1. A voice recognition apparatus for an elevator, comprising:

a voice recognition part which includes;

a microphone for detecting a voice signal from an elevator passenger;

a voice recognition control part which recognizes a voice signal detected by the microphone by way of a previously set voice recognition program, outputs a voice recognition command corresponding to a hall call and a floor selection and outputs a signal for a display of a voice recognition procedure by means of the audio recognition program and a result of the voice recognition;

a voice recognition database for storing the voice recognition program and a previously set voice recognition information;

a voice recognition time display part which is turned on and off in accordance with a display signal from the voice recognition control part; and

a voice recognition audible display part for outputting a voice signal in accordance with a display signal from the voice recognition control part;

a button input part for detecting a hall call signal and a floor selection signal from the passenger;

a control part for outputting an elevator operation control signal in accordance with a voice recognition command from the voice recognition part and a hall call signal and a floor selections signal detected by the button input part;

a protocol conversion part for converting an elevator operation control signal from the control part into a previously set communication protocol of an elevator manufacturer;

a transceiver part for transmitting an operation control signal converted by the protocol conversion part to the outside;

a display part allowing a passenger to recognize the hall call signal and the floor selection signal in accordance with an operation control signal from the control part; and

a protocol setting part for inputting a communication protocol information by the elevator manufacturer into the protocol conversion part.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said voice recognition control part outputs a flickering signal and a voice signal so that a passenger can recognize that a voice recognition is being performed by way of the audio recognition program in visual and audible ways.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said voice recognition time display part comprises:

a first lamp which is turned on when a voice recognition command is outputted from the control part; and

a second lamp which is turned on when a voice recognition command is not outputted from the voice recognition part.

4. A method for controlling a voice recognition apparatus for an elevator, comprising:

(a) a step in which a control part detects an operation control signal of an elevator from at least one among a voice recognition part and a button part;

(b) a step in which said control part judges if a voice recognition command is outputted from the voice recognition part when an elevator operation control signal is detected by way of the voice recognition part in the step (a);

(c) a step in which the control part outputs a corresponding operation control signal when the voice recognition command is outputted in the step (b); and

(d) a step in which a protocol conversion part converts an operation control signal outputted in the step (c) into a previously set communication protocol of an elevator manufacturer, and the converted operation control signal is transmitted to the outside by way of the transceiver.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said step (a) includes:

a sub-step in which the voice recognition part outputs a signal for displaying a procedure of recognizing a hall call voice and a floor selection voice of a passenger by way of a previously set voice recognition program and a result of the voice recognition.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a display signal of the procedure of recognizing the voice is a flickering signal and a voice signal casing a passenger to recognize that a voice recognition is being performed by means of the voice recognition program in visual and audible ways.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein a signal displaying a result of the voice recognition causes a previously set first lamp to turn on when a voice recognition command is outputted from the voice recognition control part and causes a previously set second lamp to turn on when a voice recognition command is not outputted from the voice recognition control part.