Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Coproration

Yoshinori Saikawa

Toshihisa Ogura

Eiji Yuasa

Hiroshi Okuda

Tsuyoshi Sempuku

Takanori Hikima

Yuki Iida

Takeyuki Hori

Hisataka Kizu

Sayaka Kobayashi

Kazufumi Yoshida

A guidance system includes: a station congestion estimating unit to estimate congestion situations in respective areas in a station and to output station congestion information indicating the estimated congestion situations in the respective areas in the station; a guidance determining unit to determine a mode of guiding station users on the basis of the station congestion information output by the station congestion estimating unit and to output guidance information indicating the mode that has been determined; and an output generation unit to generate an output signal for guiding the station users on the basis of the guidance information output by the guidance determining unit, to output the output signal that has been generated to an output device, and to cause the output device to provide output corresponding to the output signal.

Guidance system and guidance method

Operating panel for elevator

A pass determination device includes: a receiving unit for receiving authentication information from an authentication device of a user; a determining unit for determining whether or not to permit the user to pass on the basis of the authentication information received by the receiving unit; and a display unit for displaying a position of an authentication area in a first display mode from before the user enters the authentication area, the authentication area being an area through which the user having the authentication device is to pass so that an authentication process based on the authentication information of the authentication device is performed.

Pass determination device and display method

A determination unit () determines whether a user having entered an authentication area () provided on a floor surface is an action-required person. A management unit () associates a determination result with respect to an action-required person produced by the determination unit () with location information of the user, and records resultant data in a person information database (). A display control unit () controls a display unit () to display an image showing a location of an action-required person using the person information database ().

Person display control device, person display control system and person display control method

Operation button for elevator

Control panel for elevator

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Saikawa