Display control apparatus for elevator

• US 4,749,062 A
• Filed: 10/29/1986
• Issued: 06/07/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagata, Yasuhiro, Tsuji, Shintaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duncanson, Jr., W. E.
• Application Number:
  US06/924,626
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 187/130, 187/139, 340/700, 340/720, 340/724, 340/726, 340/815.01, 340/815.24, 364/513, 364/514
• US Class Current: 187/396
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/308 with AC powered elevator drive
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/008 Displaying information not related to the elevator, e.g. weather, publicity, internet or TV
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels

Abstract

A display control apparatus for an elevator comprising a clock which delivers time information, memory means to store a plurality of items of greeting information dependent upon times, selection means to select from the memory means the greeting information item corresponding to the current time given by the clock, and synthesis means to deliver the selected greeting information item in combination with general information as display information. When the selection means derives the greeting information corresponding to the current time from the memory means on the basis of the time information of the clock, the synthesis means applies it to a display unit in combination with the general information, whereby appropriate greeting information items are presented to the users of the elevator at proper times.

Claims

1. In an elevator system having a display unit disposed in at least one of elevator cages and a hall;

a display control apparatus for controlling display operations of the display unit comprising a clock to deliver time information, memory means to store a plurality of predetermined display information items, selection means including manually adjustable means to select from said memory means a display information item corresponding to the time information of said clock, and synthesis means to combine, in a predetermined manner, the time information delivered by said clock with the corresponding display information item selected by said selection means and to deliver the combined information as synthetic display information to be displayed on the display unit.

5. A display control apparatus for an elevator as defined in claim 1 wherein said synthesis means operates when the selected information is of a plurality of items, to join the plurality of information items together in a predetermined order and deliver them as the display information, and the display information delivered from said synthesis means is displayed on said display unit in succession.

2. In an elevator system having a display unit disposed in at least one of elevator cages and a hall;

a display control apparatus for controlling display operations of the display unit comprising a clock to deliver time information, memory means to store a plurality of predetermined display information items, selection means including manually adjustable means to select from said memory means a display information item corresponding to the time information of said clock, and synthesis means to combine, in a predetermined manner, the time information delivered by said clock with the corresponding display information item selected by said selection means and to deliver the combined information as synthetic display information to be displayed on the display unit, said selection means including adjusting switches operated for performing time adjustments of said clock to set the time information and for activating said selection means to set contents of varying portions of the display information items.

3. A display control apparatus for an elevator as defined in claim 2 wherein said adjusting switches comprise a first switch actuated when time adjustments of said clock and content setting of the varying portions of the display information items are started and reset when the time adjustments of said clock and the content setting ended, a second switch actuated to select varying portions of the display information items, and a third switch actuated to set the content of the selected varying portion of the display information item.

4. In an elevator system having a display unit disposed in at least one of elevator cages and a hall;

a display control apparatus for controlling display operations of the display unit comprising a clock to deliver time information, memory means to store a plurality of predetermined display information items, selection means including manually adjustable means to select from said memory means a display information item corresponding to the time information of said clock, and synthesis means to combine, in a predetermined manner, the time information delivered by said clock with the corresponding display information item selected by said selection means and to deliver the combined information as synthetic display information to be displayed on the display unit, said selection means including a plurality of adjusting switches including an adjustment start switch actuated when time adjustments of said clock are started and reset when the time adjustments are ended, and time setting means to set hour and minute indicating portions of said clock in response to operations of said adjusting switches and to correct a second indicating portion of said clock when said adjustment start switch is reset.

6. In an elevator system having a display unit disposed in at least one of elevator cages and a hall for simultaneously displaying a limited number of characters not greater than a first prescribed value, memory means to store a plurality of predetermined display information items, and selection means to select from said memory means a display information item for displaying when a predetermined condition has held;

a display control apparatus for comprising detection means to detect a number of characters of the selected information item, and display switching means to switch display formats of said display unit in accordance with the detected number of characters.

7. A display control apparatus for an elevator as defined in claim 6 wherein, when the detected number of characters of the information item selected for display is not greater than the first prescribed value, said display switching means is operated to simultaneously display the selected information item on said display unit, whereas, when the number of characters of the selected display information item is greater than the first prescribed value, said display switching means is operated to scrollingly display the selected information item.

8. A display control apparatus for an elevator as defined in claim 7 wherein said display switching means has a second prescribed value set larger than the first prescribed value, and is operated to scrollingly display the selected information item at a scroll speed set higher when the number of characters of the selected information item is greater than the second prescribed value than when the number of characters of the selected information item is not greater than the second prescribed value.