A method includes generating a depth stream from a scene associated with a conveyance device; processing, by a computing device, the depth stream to obtain depth information; recognizing a gesture based on the depth information; and controlling the conveyance device based on the gesture.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automatically entering and leaving a ride apparatus. A method for automatically entering a ride apparatus comprises: establishing a wireless communication connection with a control system of the ride apparatus; sending, via the wireless communication connection, an automatic entering request to the control system, the automatic entering request comprising a ride starting position; receiving, via the wireless communication connection, status information sent by the control system; and determining, according to the status information, that the ride apparatus has arrived at the ride starting position, and automatically entering the ride apparatus.

A slider has a drum with alternating alpha and beta grooves, first stacked pulleys, and second stacked pulleys. First and second end pulleys are at opposite ends of the slider. A line wraps as a loop from the last beta groove, around the first end pulley, to the last alpha groove, back and forth around the first stacked pulleys, off the first alpha groove, around the second end pulley, to the first beta groove, back and forth around the second stacked pulleys, and back to the last beta groove. When the drum or the end pulleys are driven, the difference in circumferences of the grooves causes the slider to move toward one of the first or second end pulleys.

A car panel for an elevator car, a method for assembling an elevator car, and an elevator system are disclosed. The car panel of the elevator car includes a lower portion, the lower portion attached to a floor of the elevator car and an upper portion, the upper portion attached to a side panel by a hinge. The hinge allows the upper portion to displace, with respect to the lower portion, by rotating the upper portion inwardly about the hinge towards an interior space of the elevator car. Displacement of the upper portion, with respect to the lower portion, from rotating the upper portion inwardly about the hinge provides ingress to a hoistway of the elevator system.

An elevator control system prompts a person using the elevator to select a floor if they forget to do so after entering the elevator. The elevator control system detects the presence of a person in an elevator car, counts the time that passes starting from when the person is detected, and issues an alert when the time counted exceeds a given threshold and a floor call button has not been pressed within that time.

A call panel of an elevator system includes at least one touch-sensitive display. On the surface of the touch-sensitive display are embossed marks, e.g. Braille characters, and embossed lines connecting them, as well as function buttons associated with the embossed marks.

A call-giving device for giving an elevator call for an elevator includes a touch-sensitive display having at least one touch detection area. The call-giving device is configured to: detect a first gesture performed in the at least one touch detection area; register a call to a floor according to a floor marking in response to detecting a touch meeting call-giving criterion on the touch-sensitive display at a point corresponding to the floor marking; and present, on the touch-sensitive display, registration data associated with the registered call, the registration data indicative of registered floor calls that have not yet been served by the elevator.

An elevator system is configured to be capable of accepting an internal call made by a user operating an elevator operating panel and an external call made from an external apparatus using a communication network. The elevator system is provided with a processor that assigns a car to be an arranged-car candidate to an internal call or an external call from among one or more cars. The processor is configured to, when an external call is accepted, execute an operation condition judgment process for judging whether each of the one or more cars is in an operating state or in a non-operating state and an external call assignment process for preferentially assigning a car in the non-operating state as the arranged-car candidate over a car in the operating state.

A remote monitoring system for an elevator system includes at least one remotely operable intermediate device and a monitoring unit for remotely controlling operation of the at least one intermediate device at least partly. The monitoring unit controls at least one intermediate device to generate a remote command for controlling at least one operation of the elevator system, and monitors a response of the elevator system to the remote command. A method for remotely monitoring an elevator system is also included.

The present disclosure discloses systems, methods and an apparatus for non-contact and eye-movement input of an elevator floor, which comprises: selecting a target camera according to a distance sensor installed on a button panel inside the elevator; triggering a corresponding target camera by using the distance sensor for face detection; standardizing a detected human face and locating a binocular position; inputting data of a standardized human face image and a binocular image into a preset posture discriminator to obtain a predicted head posture and an eyeball posture; according to the head posture and the eyeball posture, calculating a line-of-sight direction and a coordinate of an attention point, detecting whether a dwell time of the line-of-sight is greater than a preset time threshold, and, if so, triggering a button at the coordinate of the attention point.