Patent ID: 6257373
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
An administrative controlling apparatus for elevators comprising:a hall call button located at an elevator hall for registering a hall call for at least one elevator;passenger detecting means for detecting a person who has come to the elevator hall;a learning statistical section for learning for respective time intervals an operational history of the elevators, including numbers of travels in different directions for each floor and number of passengers traveling in different directions and for analyzing the number of travels and number of passengers;a direction setting section for predicting, in response to learning of the learning statistical section, a predicted direction of travel for the hall call button operated for the floor when the passenger detecting means detects a person;a tentative allocation selection section for selecting an elevator which becomes a tentative allocation in accordance with the predicted direction of travel; anda tentative allocation execution section for tentatively registering a hall call to the elevator selected by the tentative allocation selection section before operation of said hall call button.