A system and method for user localization and acoustic voice interface are provided. The system including a locator system that includes at least one sensor that detects a location of a user and generates a location value, a listening system that includes a microphone array that includes at least one microphone, wherein the listening system receives the location value and collects an audio signal from the location defined by the location value, and a signal processor that generates a control signal based on at least the audio signal.

The invention is an elevator car, with a door system, for with a bottom-driven elevator, where it does not play a structural role in lifting, but provides aesthetics and safety to the passengers. The elevator car comprises lightweight materials. The car comprises a frame and a door system. The door system comprises at least one elevator door and at least one pulley system. The pulley system is attached to the frame and the elevator door is attached to the pulley system, such that the elevator door rotates horizontally around the frame when the pulley system is engaged. The elevator door comprises a pliable material, such as ballistic nylon. The elevator car can have one, two, three, or four door openings, including two adjacent door openings. Finally, the system may also include at least one light curtain that transmits signals to an elevator control system.

A method and intent recognition system that triggers voice recognition is provided. The intent recognition system includes an intent recognition device that detects a user location and/or behavior in a building and detects a triggering event based on the user location and/or behavior that suggests the user wants to input a service request, a prompt device that is triggered to provide a prompt based on the detecting by the intent recognition device and the detected triggering event, a listening device that receives an auditory input from the user, a signal processing device that processes the received auditory input and generates a control signal, and in-building equipment that receives the control signal from the signal processing device and controls the in-building equipment based on the control signal.

A method for provisioning elevator service includes sensing, by a gesture interface comprising a sensor, a region in proximity to the gesture interface to obtain data; determining, by the gesture interface, that a first pattern in the data corresponds to a first gesture; and initiating a request for elevator service in response to determining that the first pattern corresponds to the first gesture.

An elevator device includes a voice input device, a voice recognition device, a call registration device, and an announcement control device. Upon receipt of an announcement request for a second announcement having higher priority than a first announcement while the announcement control device is causing the announcement output device to output the first announcement, the announcement control device stops the first announcement and causes the announcement output device to output the second announcement. The announcement control device also determines whether the re-output of the first announcement is necessary. In the case where the announcement control device determines that the re-output of the first announcement is necessary, upon finish of the second announcement, the announcement control device causes the announcement output device to re-output the first announcement.

A processor obtains an audio sample captured by an audio sensor associated with a device and/or image data captured by an image sensor associated with the device. The image data comprises a representation of one or more elevator buttons. The processor analyzes the audio sample to identify a floor name indicator in the audio sample and/or the image data to identify an activated elevator button from among the one or more elevator buttons represented by the image data; and determines a floor name based on the floor name indicator identified in the analyzed audio sample and/or a floor name indicator associated with the identified activated elevator button in accordance with the analyzed image data. The processor causes the determined floor name to be stored and/or provided for positioning purposes.

The present disclosure provides an elevator control method, apparatus, electronic device, storage medium and system, which relate to artificial intelligence technology. The method includes: obtaining a user instruction, where the user instruction is determined by a speech device based on a user's speech content; recognizing the user instruction and converting the user instruction into an elevator control instruction; and controlling an elevator via the elevator control instruction. The elevator control method provided by the present disclosure enables the user to control the elevator through the speech device without touching the elevator, and thereby reducing potential safety risk caused by multiple people touching the elevator.

An apparatus for retrofitting an elevator system to enable voice control includes a first main board installable within an elevator adjacent to an elevator button panel and two or more additional main boards installable on respective floors adjacent to respective elevator call panels, each of the main boards having a microphone circuit, a plurality of onboard output relays, and a processor operable to select an output relay in response to a voice command received by the microphone circuit and to output a signal to the selected output relay. One or more auxiliary output relay boards are installable within the elevator adjacent to the elevator button panel, each having a plurality of additional output relays selectable by the processor of the first main board. A controller area network (CAN) bus connects the first main board to the one or more auxiliary output relay boards.

A system and method is presented for hands-free operation of elevator using a smart phone or like device to display one or more colours that are read by a colour-detection device mounted in an elevator cabin and at each elevator landing. Different colours can be displayed by the smart phone or like device and detected by the colour-detection device where different can represent different commands to operate the elevator.

A notification control device includes an attribute identification unit configured to identify a physical attribute of a user who uses an elevator, and a notification control unit configured to control, based on the physical attribute identified by the attribute identification unit, a notification speed at which information is provided by a notification device installed in a car in which the user having the identified physical attribute is to ride.