Method and system to select elevator floors using a single control
OwnerJon E. Ecclestoninventor
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Abstract
A system enables a handicapped person to select a destination floor in an elevator using a single control and comprises a first mechanism to sequentially enumerate potential destination floors, a second mechanism enabling user selection of a desired destination floor by interacting with the single control when the desired destination floor is enumerated by the first mechanism, and a third mechanism to coupled a signal from the second mechanism to command the elevator to halt at the user-selected designation floor. The system may be disposed within and/or without the elevator.
Claims17
A method enabling a handicapped person to select a destination floor in an elevator using a single control, the method comprising the following steps:
- (A) sequentially enumerating potential destination floors to enable user selection of a chosen said destination floor;
- (B) enabling user selection of a chosen said destination floor by interaction with said single control when said destination floor is enumerated at step (A);
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- (C) commanding said elevator to halt at a floor chosen by a user at step (B).
A system to enable a handicapped person to select a destination floor in an elevator using a single control, the system comprising:
- means for sequentially enumerating potential destination floors to enable user selection of a chosen said destination floor;
- means for enabling user selection of a chosen said destination floor by interaction with said single control when said destination floor is enumerated by said means for sequentially enumerating;
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- means for coupling a signal from said means for enabling to command said elevator to halt at a floor chosen by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.