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US 10,519,007 B2Granted
Passenger conveyor
AssigneeToshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki Kikuchi
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Abstract
A passenger conveyor has a guardrail belt configured to run on a pair of right and left handrails in synchronization with footsteps; a camera provided at a platform of the handrail; and a control device configured to analyze an image obtained by photographing the platform with the camera, detect a passenger getting in from the platform, stop the footsteps or lower a running speed than a normal speed when detecting no passenger for a predetermined time, and move the running speed of the footsteps at the normal speed when detecting the passenger.
Claims6
A passenger conveyor comprising:
- a plurality of footsteps configured to move in a front-rear direction;
- a drive device configured to move the footsteps;
- a pair of right and left handrails erected on both right and left sides of the footsteps;
- a guardrail rail provided above each of the pair of right and left handrails;
- a guardrail belt configured to run on the guardrail rail above the pair of right and left handrails in synchronization with the footsteps,
- a right inlet unit and a left inlet unit from which the guardrail belt enters a front skirt guard by moving from an upper part to a lower part of the right and left handrails, respectively;
- a camera provided downward at a bottom of each of the pair of right and left guardrail rails;
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- a control device configured to:
- acquire a left image obtained by photographing the inlet unit on a right side with the camera on a left side,
- acquire a right image obtained by photographing the inlet unit on a left side with the camera on a right side,
- analyze both the right and left images,
- detect whether an object is present in the vicinity of at least one of the right inlet unit or left inlet unit, and
- give a warning when an object has been detected.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.