Work data collection method

• US 7,272,461 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2006
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Koichi, Endo, Yuko, Yoshikawa, Takeshi, Kaneko, Masaya, Obara, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard; Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garland; Steven R.
• Application Number:
  US11/478,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20060250498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 442 Days
• Field of Search: 700/111, 700/108, 702/182, 705/11, 348/143, 348/77
• US Class Current: 700/111
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/10 together with the recording, indicating or registering of other data, e.g. of signs of identity

Abstract

A work data collection method is provided. The method includes photographing through a video camera a series of different jobs done by at least a worker, to record video signal of said jobs on a memory device of said video camera; inputting a break point signal in said video camera at each break point between said jobs, to record said break point signal on said memory device of said video camera along with said video signal; and displaying a list of titles of said jobs along with a clock.

Claims

1. A work data collection method comprising the steps of:

photographing through a video camera a series of different jobs done by at least one worker, to record video signal of said jobs on a memory device of said video camera;

inputting a break point signal in said video camera at each break point between said jobs, to record said break point signal on said memory device of said video camera along with said video signal; and

using a camera with a super wide angle lens directed upward, to calculate a direction of movement of a head of said at least one worker, and a change of the direction on the basis of image data picked up through said camera.

2. A work data collection method as recited in claim 1, wherein said camera is fixed to a top of said at least one worker.

3. A work data collection method as recited in claim 1, wherein if said photographing is done in a dark room, said video camera is an infrared video camera, and if said photographing is done in a lighted room, said video camera is a video camera whose sensitivity is set at a wavelength range of visible rays.