CALL-GIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GIVING AN ELEVATOR CALL

• US 20140014444A1
• Filed: 09/18/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: KAUPPINEN, Tuukka, DE JONG, Johannes, LNSI, Harri, SUORANTA, Santeri
• Granted Patent: US 9,561,931 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/389
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/36 Means for stopping the cars, cages, or skips at predetermined levels
• 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 2201/463 Wherein the call is registered through physical contact with the elevator system

Abstract

The invention relates to a call-giving device and to a method for giving an elevator call. In the method a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch on the call-giving device is detected.

Claims

1. Call-giving device for giving an elevator call, which call-giving device comprises at least one area detecting a touch;

wherein the call-giving device is configured to detect a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch.

2. Call-giving device according to claim 1, wherein the call-giving device comprises a display for presenting a floor marking, and in that the call-giving device is configured to move a floor marking to be presented on the display on the basis of a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch.

3. Call-giving device according to claim 1, wherein the call-giving device is configured to detect the movement direction of a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch;

and in that the call-giving device is configured to move a floor marking to be presented on the display in the movement direction detected.

4. Call-giving device according to claim 2, wherein the call-giving device is configured to determine the movement speed of a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch;

and in that the call-giving device is configured to move a floor marking at a speed that is proportional to the determined movement speed of the gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch.

5. Call-giving device according to claim 2, wherein the call-giving device is configured to detect a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch for decelerating the speed of a floor marking that has been brought to move;

and in that the call-giving device is configured to decelerate the speed of a floor marking that has been brought to move, on the basis of a gesture to be performed for decelerating the speed of the aforementioned floor marking.

7. Call-giving device according to claim 2, wherein the call-giving device is configured to decelerate at a set deceleration the speed of a floor marking that has been brought to move.

8. Call-giving device according to claim 1, wherein the call-giving device comprises a touch-sensitive display.

9. Call-giving device according to claim 8, wherein the call-giving device is configured to register a call to a floor according to a floor marking when detecting a touch meeting the call-giving criterion on the display at the point of the aforementioned floor marking.

10. Call-giving device according to claim 9, wherein the call-giving device is configured to present on the display the registration data connected to a registered call.

11. Call-giving device according to claim 2, wherein the call-giving device is configured to present on the display simultaneously a number of floor markings situated consecutively to each other.

12. Call-giving device according to claim 11, wherein the call-giving device is configured to present on the display simultaneously two or more strings formed by consecutive floor markings.

13. Call-giving device according to claim 11, wherein the call-giving device is configured to detect a gesture to be performed in the direction of a string formed by consecutive floor markings as well as the movement direction of the gesture to be performed in the direction of the string;

and in that the call-giving device is configured to move the aforementioned string formed by consecutive floor markings in the detected movement direction.

14. Call-giving device according to claim 11, wherein the call-giving device comprises a memory, in which the floor markings intended to be presented on the display and also the sequence of floor markings that are consecutive to each other are recorded;

and in that the call-giving device is configured to present on the display only a part at a time of the aforementioned consecutively situated floor markings to be recorded in the memory.

15. Call-giving device according to claim 14, wherein a string formed by consecutively situated floor markings travels on the display starting from an edge area of the display and ending in an edge area of the display.

16. Call-giving device according to claim 15, wherein the call-giving device is configured to remove a floor marking from the display when it arrives in an edge area of the display.

17. Call-giving device according to claim 16, wherein the call-giving device is configured to add a second floor marking, in place of the floor marking to be removed from the display, to the opposite end of the string formed by the floor markings.

18. Call-giving device according to claim 2, wherein a floor marking comprises a name designator.

19. Elevator system, the elevator system comprises a call-giving device according to claim 1 for giving an elevator call.

6. Call-giving device, which comprises means for receiving an input given by a user;

and which call-giving device comprises a display for presenting a floor marking;

wherein the call-giving device is configured to move a floor marking to be presented on the display on the basis of the input given by a user.

20. Method for giving an elevator call, wherein:

a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch on the call-giving device is detected.

21. Method according to claim 20, wherein:

a floor marking to be presented on the display of the call-giving device is moved on the basis of the gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch.

22. Method according to claim 20, wherein:

the movement direction of a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch is detected;

a floor marking to be presented on the display is moved in the movement direction detected.

23. Method according to claim 21, wherein:

the movement speed of a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch is determined

a floor marking to be presented on the display is brought to move at a speed that is proportional to the determined movement speed of the gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch.

24. Method according to claim 21, wherein:

a gesture to be performed in an area detecting a touch for decelerating the speed of a floor marking that has been brought to move is detected

the speed of the floor marking is decelerated on the basis of the gesture to be performed for decelerating the aforementioned floor marking.

26. Method according to claim 21, wherein:

the speed of a floor marking that has been brought to move is decelerated at a set deceleration.

27. Method according to claim 20, wherein the device is a touch-sensitive display and in that in the method:

a call to a floor according to a floor marking is registered when detecting a touch meeting the call-giving criterion on the display at the point of the aforementioned floor marking.

28. Method according to claim 20, wherein:

a number of consecutively situated floor markings are presented on the display simultaneously.

29. Method according to claim 28, wherein:

two or more strings formed by consecutive floor markings are presented on the display simultaneously.

30. Method according to claim 28, wherein:

a gesture to be performed in the direction of a string formed by consecutive floor markings as well as the movement direction of the gesture to be performed in the direction of the string are detected;

the string formed by consecutive floor markings is moved in the movement direction detected.

31. Method according to claim 28, wherein:

consecutively situated floor markings intended to be presented on the display and also the consecutive sequence of the floor markings are recorded in the memory of the call-giving device

only a part at a time of the aforementioned consecutively situated floor markings to be recorded in the memory are presented on the display.

32. Method according to claim 31, wherein:

a string formed by consecutively situated floor markings is moved on the display in the direction of the string, starting from an edge area of the display and ending in an edge area of the display.

33. Method according to claim 32, wherein:

a floor marking is removed from the display when it arrives in an edge area of the display

34. Method according to claim 33, wherein:

a second floor marking is added, in place of the floor marking to be removed from the display, to the opposite end of the string formed by the floor markings.

25. Method for giving an elevator call, in which method:

an input given by a user is received

wherein;

a floor marking to be presented on the display is moved on the basis of the input given by a user.