Patent ID: 11926505
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 4:
5. An elevator control method, comprising:
a voice recognition step of recognizing a destination floor of a user from a voice of the user input to a voice input device; and
an elevator control step of registering a voice car call corresponding to the destination floor recognized in the voice recognition step, generating stop floor information including a stop floor at which a car stops before the car arrives at the destination floor after the registration of the voice car call, and controlling a voice output device such that the voice output device performs a voice announcement based on the generated stop floor information,
wherein the elevator control step includes:
comparing a number of stop floors included in the stop floor information and a set threshold value, which is set in advance; and
performing, when the number of stop floors is smaller than the set threshold value, as the voice announcement, one of a first announcement for notifying of the stop floor in order of floors at which the car stops, and performing, when the number of stop floors is equal to or larger than the set threshold value, as the voice announcement, a second announcement for notifying of how many floors the car stops at before arriving at the destination floor.