Elevator car call buttons indicating car floor position

An elevator having a car traveling vertically between a plurality of floors in a building, comprising:

• an elevator car operating panel having a plurality of car call buttons, each of said car call buttons providing a call signal indicating a desire for service to a particular floor of the building in response to being pressed;
• a controller response to each of said call signals for registering a car call and for providing registration signal indicative of a car call registered for a corresponding floor, said controller providing position signals indicative of the floor position of the car in the building, and circuits responsive to said registration signals and to said position signals for causing light having a first one of a pair of illumination characteristics to emanate from the one of said car call buttons representing a floor which is the car floor position indicated by said position signals, and for causing each of said car call buttons corresponding to a floor indicated by a related one of said registration signals to emanate light having a second one of said pair of illumination characteristics distinct from said first illumination characteristic, said pairs of illumination characteristics selected from the group consisting of (a) one of said illumination characteristics being light of invariant intensity and the other of said illumination characteristics being flashing light, and (b) one of said illumination characteristics comprising light emanating from a first portion of said car call button and the other of said illumination characteristics comprising light emanating from a second portion of said car call button distinct from said first portion.