TIME AND ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150170104A1
• Filed: 07/19/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Takao, Ito, Saki
• Application Number:
  US14/415,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20150170104A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1091 Recording time for administrative or management purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/10 together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera

Abstract

A time and attendance management device (100) includes: a control unit (102) that starts an application which uses an imaging function on a mobile terminal (10) by allowing the mobile terminal (10) having the imaging function to communicate wirelessly with a relay device (80) provided in a place where the user attends and leaves; an imaging unit (104) that images the face of the user using the imaging function by way of the application started by the control unit (102); an extraction unit (106) that acquires face image data of the user recognized from the captured image and extracts feature point data from the face image data of the user; and a recording unit (110) that records clock-in or clock-out information of the user based on the feature point data, as time and attendance information, in a time and attendance information storage unit (112) together with the current time.

Claims

1. A time and attendance management device, comprising:

a control unit that starts an application which uses an imaging function on a user mobile terminal by allowing the user mobile terminal having the imaging function to communicate wirelessly with a relay device provided in a place where a user attends and leaves;

an imaging unit that images a face of the user using the imaging function byway of the application started by the control unit;

an extraction unit that acquires face image data of the user recognized from a captured image and extracts feature point data from the face image data of the user; and

a recording unit that records dock-in or dock-out information of the user based on the feature point data, as time and attendance information, in a time and attendance information storage device together with a current time.

2. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1,

wherein the time and attendance information storage device stores scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user and identification information of the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves so as to be associated with identification information of the user mobile terminal,

the time and attendance management device further comprising:

a monitoring unit that monitors whether or not the current time is a time to prompt the user to perform a clock-in or clock-out operation based on the scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user with reference to the time and attendance information storage device; and

a clock-in and clock-out notification unit that transmits notification prompting the clock-in or clock-out operation to the user mobile terminal through the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves when the current time is the time to prompt the user to perform the clock-in or clock-out operation.

3. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1,

wherein the time and attendance information storage device stores scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user and identification information of the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves so as to be associated with identification information of the user mobile terminal,

the time and attendance management device further comprising:

a clock-out monitoring unit that monitors whether or not clock-out information of the user has been recorded in the time and attendance information storage device after a predetermined time has passed from leaving time of the user based on the scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user with reference to the time and attendance information storage device; and

a checking unit that makes the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves check presence of the user mobile terminal when the clock-out information of the user has not been recorded in the time and attendance information storage device, and

wherein, when a result of the presence checking indicates that the user mobile terminal is not present, the recording unit records a current time in the time and attendance information storage device as clock-out information of the user mobile terminal.

4. The time and attendance management device according to claim 3,

wherein, when the checking unit confirms that the user mobile terminal is present, the clock-in or clock-out notification unit transmits notification prompting a clock-in or clock-out operation to the user mobile terminal through the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves.

5. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1,

wherein the time and attendance information storage device stores scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user and identification information of the relay device provided in the place where the user attends and leaves so as to be associated with identification information of the user mobile terminal, and

the time and attendance management device further comprising:

a notification unit that transmits alarm notification prompting the user to attend work to the user mobile terminal through the relay device, which is provided in the place where the user attends and leaves, at a predetermined time before the scheduled attendance and leaving time based on the scheduled attendance and leaving time of the user with reference to the time and attendance information storage device.

6. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a presence checking unit that transmits notification prompting a punching operation for presence checking to the user mobile terminal through the relay device at an arbitrary timing within a period of time, during which the user is to be in the place where the user attends and leaves, based on the time and attendance information of the user with reference to the time and attendance information storage device.

7. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the user mobile terminal present in a wireless communication area of the relay device communicates wirelessly with the relay device, the control unit starts the application on the user mobile terminal, and

the recording unit acquires identification information of the user mobile terminal and identification information of the relay device and records the pieces of information in the time and attendance information storage device so as to be associated with each other.

8. The time and attendance management device according to claim 1,

wherein the time and attendance management device is the user mobile terminal or a server device that can communicate with the user mobile terminal.

9. A data processing method of a time and attendance management device, comprising:

starting, by the time and attendance management device, the an application which uses an imaging function on a user mobile terminal by allowing the user mobile terminal having the imaging function to communicate wirelessly with a relay device provided in a place where a user attends and leaves;

imaging, by the time and attendance management device, a face of the user using the imaging function by way of the started application;

acquiring, by the time and attendance management device, face image data of the user recognized from a captured image;

extracting, by the time and attendance management device, feature point data from the face image data of the user; and

recording, by the time and attendance management device, clock-in or clock-out information of the user based on the feature point data, as time and attendance information, in a time and attendance information storage device together with a current time.

10. (canceled)

11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium storing instructions adapted to enable a hardware processor of a computer to implement a time and attendance management system by performing steps comprising:

starting an application which uses an imaging function on a user mobile terminal by allowing the user mobile terminal having the imaging function to communicate wirelessly with a relay device provided in a place where a user attends and leaves;

imaging a face of the user using the imaging function by way of the started application;

acquiring face image data of the user recognized from a captured image;

extracting feature point data from the face image data of the user; and

recording clock-in or clock-out information of the user based on the feature point data, as time and attendance information, in a time and attendance information storage device together with a current time when a clock-in or clock-out operation of the user is received.