Patent Description:
In order to improve the experience of passengers, a wireless signal module is installed in the elevator system to interact with personal mobile terminals carried by passengers, so as to realize functions like automatically calling the elevator, such as automatically registering destination floors.

In practical application, elevator cabins of different elevator systems may have different stoppable floors, even the elevator cabins of the same elevator system may still have different stoppable floors, for example, in different application scenarios and/or under different scheduling strategies, the stoppable floors of the elevator cabins may be different, or may be adjusted and changed. For a personal mobile terminal used for calling elevators, if the stoppable floor information set corresponding to a certain elevator cabin is inconsistent with the actually stoppable floors of the elevator cabin, elevator calling error or failure will be incurred, for example, the elevator cabin cannot land at the destination floor which the personal mobile terminal has automatically requested to register. <CIT> discloses a method of generating an action in a lift system. This document discloses the preamble of claim <NUM>.

<CIT> communication system for use in an elevator system.

Therefore, the stoppable floor information set is the basic information to realize the function of automatically calling elevators.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, an elevator system is provided, according to claim <NUM>.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the elevator system is provided with a corresponding storage end which stores the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the storage end provides the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin which can be downloaded and acquired by the personal mobile terminal;
wherein the personal mobile terminal is configured to sense wireless signals broadcast by the wireless signal module and establish a wireless connection with the wireless signal module, and to automatically send the request of registering the destination floor to the wireless signal module based on the stoppable floor information set.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to send the landing floor information to the handheld terminal;
the elevator system determines the landing floor information as stoppable floor object corresponding to the elevator cabin through the handheld terminal which can establish wireless connection with the wireless signal module, and builds the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin through the handheld terminal, wherein an element of the stoppable floor information set includes the stoppable floor object.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to send the landing floor information to the handheld terminal;
the elevator control device is configured to determine the landing floor information as stoppable floor object corresponding to the elevator cabin through the handheld terminal which can establish wireless connection with the wireless signal module, and builds the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin through the handheld terminal, wherein an element of the stoppable floor information set includes the stoppable floor object.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the elevator system wirelessly sends the stoppable floor information set to the storage end through the handheld terminal which has established wireless connection with the wireless signal module.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to automatically build the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin based on the obtained landing floor information.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to send the stoppable floor information set to the handheld terminal;
wherein, the elevator system wirelessly sends the stoppable floor information set to the storage end through the handheld terminal.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the storage end is a cloud server or is arranged in the wireless signal module.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the elevator system comprises:.

The elevator system according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to monitor changes of the information of actually stoppable floors of the elevator cabin compared to the existing or configured stoppable floor information set.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a handheld terminal is provided, which comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the processor implementing the following steps when executing the computer program:.

sending the stoppable floor information set wirelessly to the storage end.

There is disclosed herein, but not claimed, a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, wherein the computer program can be executed by a processor to realize the following steps:.

In some examples the method may be computer-implemented. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a method of configuring a stoppable floor information set for an elevator cabin of an elevator system is provided, which includes the steps of:.

The method according to further embodiments of the present invention, wherein the step of configuring the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin includes updating the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin based on the landing floor information.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein an element of the stoppable floor information set includes the stoppable floor object corresponding to the landing floor information;
in the step of configuring the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin, if the landing floor information does not correspond to the stoppable floor object of the existing stoppable floor information set, it will be added as stoppable floor object into the existing stoppable floor information set so as to form an updated stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the element of the stoppable floor information set includes the stoppable floor object corresponding to the landing floor information;.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the step of configuring the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin includes:.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the storage end stores the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin, and provides the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin which can be downloaded and acquired by the personal mobile terminal;
wherein, the personal mobile terminal is configured to sense wireless signals broadcast by the wireless signal module and establish a wireless connection with the wireless signal module, and to automatically send the request of registering the destination floor to the wireless signal module based on the stoppable floor information set.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the storage end is a cloud server or is arranged in the wireless signal module.

The method according to further embodiments of the invention, wherein the stoppable floor information set includes a set of upward stoppable floors information and/or a set of downward stoppable floors information ;
the set of upward stoppable floors information /set of downward stoppable floors information is obtained through the following steps:.

The above features and operations of the present invention will become more obvious from the following descriptions and drawings.

The above and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become clearer and more complete from the following detailed descriptions given in conjunction with the drawings, wherein the same or similar elements are denoted by the same reference sign.

The present invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, which show exemplary embodiments of the present invention.

Some of the block diagrams shown in the drawings are functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically or logically independent entities. These functional entities may be implemented in software form, or in one or more hardware modules or integrated circuits, or in different processing devices and/or microcontroller apparatus.

In this application, for the convenience of description, "a method of configuring an stoppable floor information set for an elevator cabin of an elevator system" is referred to as "a method of configuring a set of the stoppable floor information ".

<FIG> is a schematic diagram of an elevator system according to an embodiment of the present invention; <FIG> is a working principle diagram of the elevator system according to an embodiment of the present invention; <FIG> is a schematic diagram of a wireless signal module of the elevator system according to an embodiment of the present invention; <FIG> is a schematic diagram of a handheld terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Now the elevator system, handheld terminal, etc. of the embodiments of the present invention will be illustrated in combination with <FIG>.

Referring to <FIG>, an elevator system <NUM> is installed in a building in which transportation of passengers and/or materials up and down is necessary. An elevator shaft <NUM> of the elevator system <NUM> and multiple floors, e.g. floor <NUM>, floor <NUM> to floor n (n being an integer greater than or equal to <NUM>), are correspondingly set in the building.

As shown in <FIG>, the elevator system <NUM> includes an elevator control device <NUM> and one or more elevator cabins <NUM>, which are used to carry passengers and the like to move in the elevator shaft <NUM>, so as to transport passengers from one floor to another. The elevator control device <NUM> can be a control center of the elevator system <NUM>, which, for example, can realize various functions such as driving and controlling the elevator cabin <NUM>, scheduling the elevator cabin <NUM>, etc., and the specific setting form of the elevator control device <NUM> is not restrictive. In order to describe the improvements made in the present invention in a clear and concise manner, the driving parts, traction parts and other conventional parts included in the elevator system <NUM> are not shown and described in the drawings.

The elevator cabin <NUM> does not land at every floor of the building. For example, when moving up, the elevator cabin <NUM> does not land at floor <NUM> and floor <NUM>, and when moving down, it does not land at floor <NUM>. It will be understood that the specific non-landing floor can be determined in advance according to the situation in the building, the elevator group control scheduling management strategy and other factors, for example, when floor m is a dummy landing station (or "blind floor"), the elevator cabin certainly could not land at this floor m; it will also be understood that different elevator cabins <NUM> (e.g. different elevator cabins in the same elevator system <NUM>) may have different landing strategies correspondingly, i.e. they may be arranged to have different stoppable floors; in the embodiments below, different stoppable floor information sets <NUM> can be configured for different elevator cabins <NUM>; moreover, each elevator cabin <NUM> can be assigned with a corresponding ID (such as a unique identifier), so that different elevator cabins can be distinguished from each other, and the ID can also be used in the process of configuring the stoppable floor information set to make the stoppable floor information set correspond to the respective elevator cabins.

Referring to <FIG> and <FIG>, the elevator control device <NUM> is configured to at least control the elevator cabin <NUM> to move in the elevator shaft <NUM> and land at each stoppable floor, for example, the elevator control device <NUM> can control the elevator cabin <NUM> to move upward and land at each stoppable floor, and/or control the elevator cabin <NUM> to move downward and land at each stoppable floor.

Refer to <FIG> and <FIG>, the elevator system <NUM> is also equipped with a plurality of wireless signal modules, which are used to realize the function of automatically calling elevators. In one embodiment, the wireless signal module includes a first Bluetooth module <NUM> installed in the elevator cabin <NUM>, which can be used to broadcast a first Bluetooth signal, for example, to broadcast the first Bluetooth signal that can at least cover the inside of the elevator cabin <NUM>; the wireless signal module also includes a second Bluetooth module <NUM> installed in the landing station area, which can be used to broadcast the second Bluetooth signal in the landing station area. The second Bluetooth module <NUM> can be integrated in an elevator call request input device of the elevator system <NUM>, wherein the elevator call request input device can be installed on both sides of an elevator door at the elevator landing station area, and call buttons such as "up" or "down" can be set on the elevator call request input device, so that elevator call requests can be manually input on the elevator call request input device. The first Bluetooth module <NUM> can be integrated in a destination floor registration control board inside the elevator cabin <NUM>. The specific setting modes of the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and the second Bluetooth module <NUM> are not limited to the above examples.

The first Bluetooth module <NUM> and the second Bluetooth module <NUM> can both interact with a personal mobile terminal <NUM>. The personal mobile terminal <NUM> can be installed with corresponding application components (e.g. APPs) to automatically realize corresponding functions, for example, automatically sending elevator call requests about the elevator call direction (such as "upward" elevator call request or "downward" elevator call request) when entering the landing station area, and automatically sending requests of registering the destination floor when entering the elevator cabin <NUM>. Correspondingly, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> automatically establishes a first Bluetooth connection with the personal mobile terminal <NUM> (for example, when the passenger basically enters the elevator cabin <NUM>) based on the first Bluetooth signal, and receives the request of registering the destination floor sent from the personal mobile terminal <NUM> after establishing the first Bluetooth connection; the second Bluetooth module <NUM> can automatically establish a second Bluetooth connection with the personal mobile terminal <NUM> and receive the elevator call request about the elevator call direction sent from the personal mobile terminal <NUM> after the second Bluetooth connection is established. Therefore, a passenger <NUM> can use the carried personal mobile terminal <NUM> to perform the elevator call operation automatically or in a hand-free manner, which greatly improves the passenger's experience in the elevator call operation.

Still referring to <FIG>, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and the second Bluetooth module <NUM> can both establish communication connection with the elevator control device <NUM>, so that either of them can conveniently obtain, from the elevator control device <NUM>, the current floor information of the elevator cabin <NUM>, including the landing floor information m when the elevator cabin <NUM> lands at, for example, floor m (m being less than or equal to n). The way in which the elevator control device <NUM> obtains the floor information is not restrictive, nor is the way of communication connection between the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM> and the elevator control device <NUM>.

In one embodiment, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> installed inside the elevator cabin <NUM> is used to obtain the landing floor information corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM>; therefore, the elevator control device <NUM> controls the elevator cabin <NUM> to land at each stoppable floor, and the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can obtain all the landing floor information of the elevator cabin <NUM>. The obtained landing floor information can be used to configure the stoppable floor information set <NUM> of the elevator cabin <NUM>.

Specifically, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and the second Bluetooth module <NUM> may be Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) modules, which can broadcast BLE signals, respectively. It shall be understood that the wireless signal modules in the elevator system <NUM> are not limited to the Bluetooth modules in the above examples, but they can also be other types of wireless beacons, for example.

Still referring to <FIG>, a person <NUM> (e.g. maintenance personnel <NUM>) inside the elevator cabin <NUM> can enter the elevator cabin <NUM> with a handheld terminal <NUM> authorized to have the right to configure the stoppable floor information set <NUM>, and the handheld terminal <NUM> can also sense the first Bluetooth signal broadcast by the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and establish a corresponding Bluetooth connection with the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, thus data transmission therebetween is possible, for example, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can send the obtained landing floor information to the handheld terminal <NUM> one by one; the elevator system <NUM> determines the landing floor information as the stoppable floor object corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> through the handheld terminal <NUM> which has established wireless connection with the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, and builds the stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> through the handheld terminal <NUM>, wherein elements of the stoppable floor information set <NUM> are the stoppable floor objects, and the stoppable floor information set <NUM> can be understood as an aggregation of the stoppable floor objects. In this embodiment, the landing floor information m (m≤n) can be received by and displayed on the handheld terminal <NUM>, which facilitates the maintenance personnel <NUM> to determine the landing floor information m as stoppable floor object that can be used to build the stoppable floor information set <NUM>, thus helping to ensure accuracy of the stoppable floor information set <NUM>.

In another embodiment, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> itself can also automatically build the stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> based on the obtained landing floor information, for example, all the landing floor information is used to build the stoppable floor information set <NUM>; correspondingly, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> directly sends the stoppable floor information set <NUM> to the handheld terminal <NUM> with which it has established the Bluetooth connection, and the handheld terminal <NUM> is granted the corresponding right to verify the currently received stoppable floor information set <NUM>, for example, to verify whether the elements in the stoppable floor information set <NUM> are correct. In the case that the elements are confirmed correct, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is determined as the stoppable floor information set that can be used in the subsequent elevator calling process.

Still referring to <FIG> and <FIG>, a storage end <NUM> can be provided corresponding to one or more elevator systems <NUM>, for example, the storage end <NUM> can be provided remotely with respect to the elevator systems <NUM>, and can be realized through a cloud server or the like. The storage end <NUM> can establish a wireless connection with the handheld terminal <NUM>, thus sending or uploading the stoppable floor information set <NUM> to the storage end <NUM> will be very convenient.

The storage end <NUM> can store the stoppable floor information set <NUM> according to the corresponding elevator cabin <NUM>, for example, the IDs of multiple elevator cabins <NUM> are respectively associated with multiple stored stoppable floor information sets <NUM>. In this way, a certain elevator cabin <NUM> of the elevator system <NUM> is configured with a corresponding stoppable floor information set <NUM> at the storage end <NUM>.

The storage end <NUM> can also establish a wireless connection with the personal mobile terminal <NUM>, thus, very conveniently obtaining the stoppable floor information set <NUM>. The storage end <NUM> can provide, in the form of a cloud server, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> that can be downloaded and acquired by the personal mobile terminal <NUM>. Therefore, when downloading and installing an elevator calling application component or scanning an ID (e.g. a QR code) of the corresponding elevator cabin <NUM> in the elevator landing station area, for example, the personal mobile terminal <NUM> can download and acquire the stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the ID of a certain elevator cabin <NUM> from the storage end <NUM>, and then the personal mobile terminal <NUM> can automatically send the request of registering the destination floor to the wireless signal module (e.g. the first Bluetooth module <NUM>) based on the accurate stoppable floor information set <NUM>, thus avoiding sending the wrong request of destination floor.

The storage end <NUM> can be, but is not limited to, the cloud server. The stoppable floor information sets <NUM> of many elevator cabins of multiple elevator systems <NUM> are stored in one cloud server, which costs less. In still another specific embodiment, the storage end <NUM> can also be arranged in the elevator system <NUM>, for example, in the wireless signal module (e.g. the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM>), and the personal mobile terminal <NUM> can obtain the corresponding stoppable floor information set <NUM> from the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM> upon establishing a wireless connection with the wireless signal module.

It shall be understood that in other embodiments, the storage end <NUM> can also send, for example, an updated stoppable floor information set <NUM> (if the personal mobile terminal <NUM> has already stored the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM> of a certain elevator cabin <NUM>) to the personal mobile terminal <NUM> by pushing way, so that the storage end <NUM> enables the personal mobile terminal <NUM> to download the stoppable floor information set <NUM>.

In the elevator system <NUM> of the above example, after the installation of the elevator system <NUM>, for example, the maintenance personnel <NUM> carries the handheld terminal <NUM> to enter the elevator cabin <NUM>, and the elevator control device <NUM> controls the elevator cabin <NUM> to move in the elevator shaft <NUM> and land at each of the stoppable floors. In this way, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and the handheld terminal <NUM> can automatically and accurately obtain each landing floor information, and the handheld terminal <NUM> does not need the maintenance personnel <NUM> to manually input the landing floor information, which avoids errors that are liable to occur in the manual input process. After the elevator cabin <NUM> has landed at all stoppable floors, all the landing floor information will have been obtained, and the handheld terminal <NUM> can automatically build the stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> based on all the landing floor information and provide it to the storage end <NUM> for the passenger <NUM> to download. Therefore, each elevator cabin <NUM> can be accurately configured with a corresponding stoppable floor information set <NUM>, which can avoid that the stoppable floor information set <NUM> contains wrong information of the actually non-landing floor (for example, if the maintenance personnel <NUM> manually inputs the stoppable floor information set <NUM> at the web page end, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> may contain the wrong information of the actually non-landing floor due to input errors). In addition, few operations are performed by the maintenance personnel <NUM>, the labor cost is low, and requirements on operations of the maintenance personnel <NUM> are also low. Furthermore, when the personal mobile terminal <NUM> of the passenger <NUM> uses the accurate stoppable floor information set <NUM> for automatic elevator calling, the elevator calling problem caused by inconsistency between the floor information contained in the stoppable floor information set <NUM> and the actually landed floor can be avoided, thus greatly improving the passenger's experience in elevator calling.

It should be noted that the above process of configuring the stoppable floor information set <NUM> can be completed in one round-trip travel of the elevator cabin <NUM>, or in multiple round-trip travels.

It shall be understood that in the above embodiment, the operations related to the configuration of the stoppable floor information set <NUM> performed by the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can also be performed alternatively by the second Bluetooth module <NUM>, for example, the landing floor information is obtained and sent to the handheld terminal <NUM> by the second Bluetooth module <NUM>; when it is realized by the second Bluetooth module <NUM>, the maintenance personnel may need to come out of the elevator cabin <NUM> at each landing station to establish a Bluetooth connection with the second Bluetooth module <NUM>, so the operation is less convenient.

In one embodiment, the personal mobile terminal <NUM> can be realized by a smart phone, a wearable smart device (such as a smart bracelet, etc.), a personal digital assistant (PAD), etc., and corresponding application components (such as APPs) can be installed on the personal mobile terminal <NUM> to realize the function of automatic elevator calling. The personal mobile terminal <NUM> may also be provided with a corresponding Bluetooth communication module, so as to be able to automatically establish Bluetooth connection with the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM>.

In one embodiment, as shown in <FIG>, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can be integrated on the destination floor registration control board inside the elevator cabin <NUM>, which can be realized specifically through a Bluetooth processor <NUM>, a memory <NUM>, a Bluetooth antenna <NUM>, etc. The Bluetooth antenna <NUM> can be used to receive and broadcast Bluetooth signals (for example, broadcast the first Bluetooth signal), a filter <NUM> can be arranged between the Bluetooth antenna <NUM> and Bluetooth processor <NUM> to filter Bluetooth signals, a corresponding program can be set or installed in the memory <NUM> to perform operations for realizing corresponding functions of the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, and the memory <NUM> can also be provided with or store, for example, the universal unique identifier (UUID) of the first Bluetooth module <NUM> and/or the ID of the elevator cabin <NUM> where the first Bluetooth module <NUM> is located. The Bluetooth processor <NUM> of the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can specifically establish a corresponding communication connection with a RSL processor <NUM> of the destination floor registration control board in the elevator cabin <NUM> during operation, for example, a serial port connection can be established based on a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART). When the first Bluetooth module <NUM> is operating, the Bluetooth processor <NUM> shakes hand with the RSL processor <NUM> and continuously verifies the communication connection, so that the request of register the destination floor received by the first Bluetooth module <NUM> can be transmitted to the RSL processor <NUM> in real time for processing, and then sent to the elevator control device <NUM> in real time.

It will be understood that the second Bluetooth module <NUM> installed in the elevator landing station area can also be implemented by a structure similar to that of the first Bluetooth module <NUM>.

In one embodiment, referring to <FIG>, the handheld terminal <NUM> can be realized by, but is not limited to, a smart phone, a wearable smart device (such as a smart bracelet, etc.), a personal digital assistant (PAD), a portable computer, etc., and it includes a processor <NUM>, a memory <NUM>, a communication component <NUM> and an input/output component <NUM>. For example, the input/output component <NUM> can be realized through a touch screen, which has areas <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> on a certain display interface. Area <NUM> can be used to display in real time the landing floor information (e.g. floor <NUM>), for example, received from the first Bluetooth module <NUM>; area <NUM> can be used to display the ID of the elevator cabin <NUM>, so that the maintenance personnel <NUM> knows for which elevator cabin the stoppable floor information set is configured currently; area <NUM> can form an input virtual key used to perform the operation of confirming the landing floor information or the stoppable floor information set, and the maintenance personnel <NUM> can click the virtual key to complete the operation of confirming, for example, if the floor "<NUM>" in the display area <NUM> is consistent with the actually landed floor of the elevator cabin <NUM> currently, click the "OK" button to complete the operation of confirming. A corresponding program (such as an APP) can be provided or installed in the memory <NUM> of the handheld terminal <NUM>, so that the processor <NUM> can execute the program and realize the corresponding functions of the handheld terminal <NUM>, for example, automatically building or updating the stoppable floor information set <NUM>, controlling display of the input/output component <NUM>, controlling the communication component <NUM> to wirelessly send or upload the stoppable floor information set <NUM>, etc. The communication component <NUM> can be, but is not limited to, a Bluetooth communication module.

It shall be noted that in some application scenarios, the actual stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM> will change, for example, floor <NUM> is originally unstoppable but is changed into stoppable, in this case, it is necessary to update the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM> to obtain the changed accurate stoppable floor information set <NUM>. The elevator system <NUM> of the above embodiment can also automatically update the stoppable floor information set <NUM>, which has substantially the same principle as building a new stoppable floor information set <NUM>. For example, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> of the corresponding elevator cabin <NUM> is also updated based on the landing floor information obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>. If the actual stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM> changes, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> compares all the obtained landing floor information with the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM> to learn so as to determine or find out that a certain piece of obtained landing floor information does not correspond to any stoppable floor object in the existing or configured stoppable floor information set <NUM>, or to determine or find out that a certain stoppable floor object in the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM> does not correspond to any of the landing floor information obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>. A machine learning algorithm, for example, may be installed in the first Bluetooth module <NUM> to monitor the change of the landing floor information relative to the existing or configured stoppable floor information set, thereby realize the above process. During updating, if a landing floor information does not correspond to the stoppable floor object of the existing stoppable floor information set, the landing floor information will be added as stoppable floor object into the existing stoppable floor information set through the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the handheld terminal <NUM>, thus forming the updated stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM>; if a certain stoppable floor object in the existing stoppable floor information set does not correspond to any of the landing floor information obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, the stoppable floor object will be deleted from the existing stoppable floor information set by the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the handheld terminal <NUM>, thus forming the updated stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM>. In this way, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> at the storage end <NUM> can be updated in time to ensure that it is consistent with the actually stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM>.

In one embodiment, the stoppable floor information set includes a set of upward stoppable floors information and/or a set of downward stoppable floors information. The set of upward stoppable floors information can be used to register the destination floor when the personal mobile terminal <NUM> calls an elevator up, and the set of downward stoppable floors information can be used to register the destination floor when the personal mobile terminal <NUM> calls an elevator down. The configuration principle of the set of upward stoppable floors information or the set of downward stoppable floors information is basically the same as that of the stoppable floor information set. For example, the set of upward stoppable floors information/the set of downward stoppable floors information is obtained by the following process: firstly, the elevator cabin <NUM> is controlled by the elevator control device <NUM> to move upward/downward in the elevator shaft and to land at each upward/downward stoppable floor; secondly, the landing floor information is obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, and the set of upward stoppable floors information/the set of downward stoppable floors information corresponding to the elevator cabin is configured based on the obtained landing floor information.

<FIG> shows a flow chart of a method of configuring a stoppable floor information set according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method of configuring a stoppable floor information set according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below in combination with the examples of <FIG>, <FIG> and <FIG>.

Referring to <FIG>, in step S510, the elevator cabin <NUM> moves in the elevator shaft <NUM> and lands at a certain stoppable floor; this step can be realized by the elevator control device <NUM>, and the elevator control device <NUM> can determine the location information of each landing floor, i.e. the landing floor information.

In step S520, the wireless signal module (e.g. the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM>) of the elevator system <NUM> is used to obtain the landing floor information, specifically from the elevator control device <NUM>.

In step S530, the landing floor information is sent to the handheld terminal <NUM> in the elevator cabin <NUM>. In this step, transmission of the landing information can be realized by, for example, the first Bluetooth module <NUM>. In other embodiments, this step can also be omitted if the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is to be updated and the landing floor information has not changed.

In step S540, the obtained landing floor information is determined as the stoppable floor object corresponding to elevator cabin <NUM>. In this step, the determination operation can be performed by the input/output component <NUM> of the handheld terminal <NUM>. Through this manual determination operation, the wrong landing floor information can be excluded from the stoppable floor information set <NUM>.

In step S550, the elevator control device <NUM> determines whether a landing has been made at all the stoppable floors. If "no", return to step S510 to further collect stoppable floor objects of other floors until the result of determination is "yes", and then enter step S560.

In step S560, the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> is built. In this step, the data set is built based on all the obtained stoppable floor objects, which can be automatically performed by the handheld terminal <NUM>.

In step S570, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is wirelessly sent to the storage end <NUM> through the handheld terminal <NUM>, and the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is stored in the storage end <NUM>, so that configuration of the stoppable floor information set <NUM> of the elevator cabin <NUM> can be completed.

The method of configuring the stoppable floor information set in the above embodiment can be implemented in the maintenance process after the installation of the elevator system <NUM>, or in the maintenance process after the stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM> have changed.

<FIG> shows a flow chart of a method of configuring an stoppable floor information set according to another embodiment of the present invention. The method of configuring an stoppable floor information set according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below in combination with the examples of <FIG>, <FIG> and <FIG>.

Referring to <FIG>, in step S610, the elevator cabin <NUM> moves in the elevator shaft <NUM> and lands at each stoppable floor; this step can be realized by the elevator control device <NUM>, which can determine the location information of each landing floor, i.e. the landing floor information. This step may, but is not limited to, be implemented in one round-trip travel of the elevator cabin <NUM>.

In step S620, the wireless signal module (e.g. the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the second Bluetooth module <NUM>) of the elevator system <NUM> is used to obtain the landing floor information, specifically from the elevator control device <NUM>.

In step S630, the stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM> is built based on the landing floor information. In this step, the data set is built based on all the obtained landing floor information, which can be automatically performed by, for example, the first Bluetooth module <NUM>.

In step S640, the stoppable floor information set is sent to the handheld terminal <NUM> in the elevator cabin <NUM>. In this step, transmission of the stoppable floor information set can be realized by, for example, the first Bluetooth module <NUM>. In other embodiments, this step can also be omitted if the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is to be updated and the stoppable floor information set has not changed.

In this step, the handheld terminal <NUM> can be used to display the received stoppable floor information set and receive instruction inputs of the maintenance personnel so as to determine whether the stoppable floor information set is correct, thereby ensuring consistency between the stoppable floor information set <NUM> and the actually stoppable floors.

In step S650, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is wirelessly transmitted to the storage end <NUM> through the handheld terminal <NUM>, and the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is stored in the storage end <NUM>, so that configuration of the stoppable floor information set <NUM> of the elevator cabin <NUM> can be completed.

Compared to the method of configuring the stoppable floor information set in the embodiment of <FIG>, the method in the example of <FIG> is automatically implemented in the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, and the operation of the maintenance personnel <NUM> is simpler.

<FIG> is a flow chart of a method of configuring an stoppable floor information set according to still another embodiment of the present invention. The method of this embodiment is mainly used to update the existing or configured stoppable floor information set <NUM>, so as to ensure that the stoppable floor information set <NUM> can be updated in time when the actually stoppable floors have changed.

Referring to <FIG>, in step S710, a machine learning algorithm is used to monitor the change of the actual stoppable floor information relative to the existing or configured stoppable floor information set.

For example, if the actual stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM> change, the first Bluetooth module <NUM> compares all the obtained landing floor information (e.g. all landing floor information of a certain period of time at present obtained by statistical learning) with the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM> to learn so as to determine or find out that a certain piece of obtained landing floor information does not correspond to any stoppable floor object in the existing stoppable floor information set <NUM>, or to determine or find out that a certain stoppable floor object in the existing stoppable floor information set does not correspond to any of the landing floor information obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>.

In step S720, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> is updated based on the change.

Specifically, if the landing floor information does not correspond to the stoppable floor object of the existing stoppable floor information set, the landing floor information will be added as stoppable floor object into the existing stoppable floor information set through the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the handheld terminal <NUM>, thus forming the updated stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM>; if a certain stoppable floor object in the existing stoppable floor information set does not correspond to any of the landing floor information obtained by the first Bluetooth module <NUM>, the stoppable floor object will be deleted from the existing stoppable floor information set by the first Bluetooth module <NUM> or the handheld terminal <NUM>, thus forming the updated stoppable floor information set <NUM> corresponding to the elevator cabin <NUM>.

In this way, the stoppable floor information set <NUM> at the storage end <NUM> can be updated in time to ensure that it is consistent with the actually stoppable floors of the elevator cabin <NUM>.

Therefore, the method of configuring the stoppable floor information set illustrated in <FIG> above can accurately configure the corresponding stoppable floor information set for a certain elevator cabin, and the operations thereof are simple.

It shall be noted that the "stoppable floor information set" mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention can be a set of data representing floor information, which can be a tangible and clearly recorded data set, or a virtual data set of invisibly associated elements. For example, multiple elements are associated to one another through the elevator cabin ID but are not clearly recorded as a set.

It should be noted that the handheld terminal <NUM> in the above embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by computer program instructions, for example, through dedicated APPs, and these computer program instructions can be provided to processors of general purpose computers, dedicated computers or other programmable data processing devices to constitute the handheld terminal <NUM> of the embodiments of the present invention, besides, units or components for realizing functions/operations specified in the flow charts and/or blocks and/or one or more flow block diagrams can be created by said instructions that are executed by the processors of the computers or other programmable data processing devices.

Likewise, the wireless signal module (e.g. first Bluetooth module <NUM>) of the elevator system <NUM> in the above embodiments of the present invention can be implemented by computer program instructions, for example, through dedicated applications, and these computer program instructions can be provided to processors to perform the corresponding operations of the first Bluetooth module <NUM> in an embodiment of the present invention, besides, units or components for realizing functions/operations specified in the flow charts and/or blocks and/or one or more flow block diagrams can be created by said instructions that are executed by the processors of the computers or other programmable data processing devices.

Moreover, said computer program instructions can be stored in a computer-readable memory and can instruct the computers or other programmable processors to achieve functions in a specific way, so that these instructions stored in the computer-readable memory form a product that includes instruction components for realizing functions/operations specified in one or more blocks of the flow chart and/or block diagram.

It shall also be noted that in some optional implementations, the functions/operations shown in the blocks may not take place in the order shown in the flow chart. For example, two blocks shown in turn may actually be concurrently implemented or they may be implemented in an inverted order sometimes, depending on the functions/operations involved.

Claim 1:
An elevator system (<NUM>), comprising:
an elevator cabin (<NUM>);
an elevator control device (<NUM>) configured to at least control the elevator cabin (<NUM>) to move in an elevator shaft (<NUM>) and land at each stoppable floor; and
a wireless signal module (<NUM>,<NUM>) configured to wirelessly receive a request of registering a destination floor from a passenger's personal mobile terminal (<NUM>) and send a corresponding destination floor of the elevator cabin (<NUM>) to the elevator control device (<NUM>) based on the request of registering the destination floor; characterized in that
the wireless signal module (<NUM>,<NUM>) is further configured to obtain landing floor information corresponding to the elevator cabin (<NUM>) from the elevator system (<NUM>), and the elevator system (<NUM>) configures a stoppable floor information set (<NUM>) corresponding to the elevator cabin (<NUM>) based on the obtained landing floor information through a handheld terminal (<NUM>) and/or the wireless signal module (<NUM>,<NUM>), wherein, when the elevator control device (<NUM>) controls the elevator cabin (<NUM>) to move in the elevator shaft (<NUM>) and land at each of the stoppable floors, the wireless signal module (<NUM>,<NUM>) and the handheld terminal (<NUM>) automatically obtain each landing floor information.