EP4159573A1 - Überwachungssystem für wintersportgeräte, verfahren zur überwachung von wintersportgeräten in einem transportträger einer gondel und datenverarbeitungssystem - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a winter sport equipment monitoring system for monitoring the winter sport equipment according to claim 1, a method for monitoring a winter sport equipment in a transport carrier of a gondola according to claim 10 and a data processing system according to claim 15.
- Winter sport resorts typically comprise a cable car or a ski lift for transporting winter sport enthusiasts up to the mountain and also down from the mountain.
- These cable cars or ski lifts comprise several gondolas having a cabinet for transporting people, while the winter sport equipment is mostly placed outside the cabinet.
- the people place their winter sport equipment in ski holders (ski carriers, ski beams) outside the cabinet and enter the cabinet of the gondola for the transfer from the downhill gondola station to the uphill gondola station or vice versa.
- ski holders ski carriers, ski beams
- This way, hundreds of people and even more winter sport equipment are transported each day to the mountain and/or from the mountain in the winter sport resort.
- the crowd of people is waiting very close to each other and they often push to the gondolas for entrance.
- several problems may arise in the gondola station, like falling people or losing winter sport equipment.
- WO 2021/011157 A1 discloses a system and methods for ski lift operations comprising a digital video camera system for capturing a plurality of images of on-boarding and off-boarding operations. Said video system automatically detect, as the ski lift is operating, a potential problem situation in one or more of the on-boarding and off-boarding area of the ski lift based on the plurality of digital images and initiate an action, as the ski lift is operating, to address the potential problem situation in one or more of the on-boarding and off-boarding area of the ski lift, while the potential problem situation still exists.
- An aim of the present invention is to avoid at least some of the drawbacks of the prior art, in particular, to provide an improved winter sport equipment monitoring system.
- said winter sport equipment monitoring system provides an enhanced safety opportunity in a gondola station, as well as in the exit area outside of the gondola at the gondola station, due to an avoidance of a loss of the winter sport equipment from the gondola.
- a method for monitoring winter sport equipment in a transport carrier of a gondola and a data processing system enhance these safety requirements in the gondola station as well as in the exit area outside of the gondola at the gondola station.
- the invention relates to a winter sport equipment monitoring system for monitoring the winter sport equipment placed at a gondola, located in a gondola station, comprising at least one optical monitoring system, an evaluation system and a control system for controlling at least the movement of the gondola in said gondola station, said at least one optical monitoring system is connected to the said evaluation system and is configured to detect a first winter sport equipment, wherein said evaluation system is configured to recognize the presence of said first winter sport equipment in a surrounding area in vicinity or proximity of said gondola respectively of the means for placing the winter sport equipment.
- a typical gondola in a winter sport resort comprises at least one means for placing the first winter sport equipment, like e. g. a ski or a snowboard, outside the cabinet of the gondola.
- the correct placing of said winter sport equipment is an issue for a safe transport from the downhill gondola station to the uphill gondola station and avoid the loss of winter sport equipment from the gondola.
- Especially losing the winter sport equipment in the gondola station and/or in the exit area of the gondola at the gondola station is a big issue, because the winter sport equipment may hurt other people in these areas, when e.g. falling down from the gondola.
- Some embodiments of said gondolas comprise said means for placing the winter sport equipment outside the gondola at the cabinet entrance door and/or at a cabinet wall next to the entrance door of said gondola.
- the optical monitoring system detects said winter sport equipment in the surrounding area of said gondola, especially in the surrounding area of the at least on means for placing the winter sport equipment outside the gondola.
- Said surrounding area defines a data recording area of said optical monitoring system at the gondola and the information of the detected winter sport equipment is provided to the evaluation system for recognizing the presence of said first winter sport equipment in a surrounding area of said gondola. Therefore, the presence of the first winter sport equipment is reliably detected and reliably evaluated within the winter sport equipment monitoring system.
- the detected/recorded data may be image data or other electromagnetic data, which is sensed by at least one optical sensor of said optical monitoring system.
- Using an optical sensor enables to place the said optical monitoring system distanced from the gondolas in the gondola station. Furthermore, an enhanced amount of data is detected in short time.
- said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect a spatial arrangement of said first winter sport equipment.
- the before mentioned information comprises at least the spatial arrangement of said first winter sport equipment relative to the at least one means for placing a first winter sport equipment, which is sent to the evaluation system. Determining the spatial arrangement enables to distinguish between different winter sport equipment, e.g. to distinguish between skis and snowboards.
- said evaluation system is configured to recognize the spatial arrangement and/or size of said first winter sport equipment in a surrounding area of said gondola. Recognizing the spatial arrangement and/or size enables to easily distinguish between different winter sport equipment, e.g. to distinguish between skis and snowboards, as well as to evaluate and to judge a correct and safe arrangement of the first winter sport equipment at the at least one means for placing a first winter sport equipment.
- Said gondola comprises a first transport carrier, while said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect said first transport carrier at the gondola in the gondola station in the 2D and/or 3D data captured by the optical monitoring system.
- the transport carrier and/or the gondola can be equipped with at least one specific marker that is configured to be detected by the optical monitoring system, e.g. reticles, contrast faces, reflectors, 3D-objects, etc. for improving detectability and/or detection accuracy.
- the detected data is sent to the evaluation system. Therefore, the optical monitoring system is able detect several subjects of the gondola in the surrounding area of the gondola. Thus, the quality of the detected information with respect to the first winter sport equipment is enhanced and misinterpretation of the data is avoided.
- said evaluation system is configured to recognize the presence of said first winter sport equipment in the first transport carrier of said gondola based on the detected information of said first transport carrier and of said first winter sport equipment. Therefore, the optical monitoring system is able to distinguish between the first transport carrier and the first winter sport equipment. Thus, the quality of the identification of the first winter sport equipment is enhanced and misinterpretation of the data is avoided.
- Said first transport carrier comprises a first transport rack, while said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect a fitting of said first winter sport equipment in the first transport rack.
- Said first transport rack may comprise the shape of a basket or another holder designed to safely transport a winter sport equipment.
- Said at least one optical monitoring system may detect the spatial information of the first transport rack and the spatial information of the first winter sport equipment and sends the recorded data to the evaluation system, which is easily used to detect the fitting of said first winter sport equipment in the first transport rack, e.g. with a comparison of the spatial information relative to each other and/or relative to defined safety-margins.
- said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect at least one position information of said first winter sport equipment.
- Said at least one position information may comprise the spatial coordinates of the first winter sport equipment relative to the gondola in the surrounding area and/or relative to the first transport rack in the surrounding area.
- a mismatch between the ideal position of the first winter sport equipment and the transport rack is detectable.
- several position information of the said first winter sport equipment is detected, thus the first winter sport equipment is parametrised to get the spatial coordinates of several sections of the first winter sport equipment.
- a bounding box or an abstracted model of the winter sport equipment and of the transport rack can be derived from the data of the optical sensor by 2D or 3D image processing and a computation system derives a positioning of the element within this abstracted model.
- said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect the orientation of said first winter sport equipment relative to the first transport rack.
- a tilt or twist of the first winter sport equipment relative to the first transport rack is detectable and the first winter sport equipment is parametrised to get the orientation of several sections of the first winter sport equipment.
- said spatial arrangement of said first winter sport equipment comprises the information about the remaining length of the first winter sport equipment protruded from the first transport rack.
- an inadequate positioning of the first winter sport equipment is detectable, e.g. when the remaining length exceeds a threshold.
- said first transport carrier comprises several transport racks and said at least one optical monitoring system is configured to detect a second winter sport equipment in one of said several transport racks.
- the at least one optical monitoring system detects more than one winter sport equipment and sends the data to the evaluation system.
- said evaluation system is configured to recognize said second winter sport equipment in one of the transport racks of said gondola.
- the evaluation system can distinguish between the adequate positioning of different winter sport equipment in the transport rack.
- said at least one optical monitoring system comprises at least one 3D-optical sensor.
- Said 3D-optical sensor detects at least the first winter sport equipment and/or at least the transport carrier of the gondola in the surrounding area for recording information data of these subjects.
- information of three coordinates and preferably a time information is recorded with a high data quality.
- RADAR sensor systems emit a so-called primary signal as a bundled electromagnetic wave, which is received by objects reflected echoes as a secondary signal. Subsequently, the secondary signal is evaluated, which is used to locate - determine distance and/or angle - of an object.
- said evaluation system sends an alarm and/or stops or slows downs the engine for movement of the gondola in said gondola station.
- the safety requirements are improved and/or a loss of a winter sport equipment is prevented. For example, if a high probability of losing the winter sport equipment during the transport is given, an alarm has to be given and/or the engine has to be stopped.
- the LIDAR sensor system 31 is connected to the evaluation system 40 and transfers the information and/or detected data from the 3D-optical sensor 32 to a processor 41 of the evaluation system 40 or verse visa.
- Said evaluation system 40 in addition comprises or is connected to a database 42 and transfers stored information and/or stored data.
- the LIDAR sensor system 31 provides data for creating a spatial distributed point cloud comprising the information like intensity, flight angle, or even class of the detect the light backscattered from the atmosphere.
- the information comprises a spatial arrangement and/or the position and/or the orientation of said first and second winter sport equipment 20, 20a relative to the gondola 14.
- the information comprises spatial arrangement and/or the position and/or the orientation of said first and second transport carrier 17, 17a at the gondola 14.
- Said transport carriers 17, 17a may comprise several transport racks 16, 16a with different rack sizes, e.g. the rack size of the transport rack 16 for transporting a ski is different to the rack size of a the transport rack 16a for transporting a snowboard (see Fig. 8 ).
- Said evaluation system comprises 140 a database 142 with stored images, of the gondola without any winter sport equipment placed at the outside of the gondola, and/or with winter sport equipment placed adequate at the outside of the gondola, and/or with winter sport equipment placed inadequate at the outside of the gondola.
- the evaluation system 140 judges the fitting of said first winter sport equipment 20, 20a in the transport racks 16, 16a based on the comparison and may judge the position or orientation of said first winter sport equipment 20 relative to said second winter sport equipment 20a using the images IME.
- said evaluation system 130 judges the remaining length of the winter sport equipment 20, 20a protruded from the first transport rack 16, 16a.
- Said evaluation system 140 is connected to the control system 50, while said control system 50 communicates with the driving system of said gondola 14.
- said evaluation system 140 is creates and/or sends control data to the control system 50 for communication with the driving system of said gondola 14 and said evaluation system 140 sends an alarm and/or stops the engine for movement of the gondola 14 in said gondola station 11.
- Said databases 42, 142 or memories comprise computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor 41, 141 to capture information of the first winter sport equipment 20, 20a and generate a plurality of digital images IMs and/or point clouds PCs based on the captured information and automatically detect an inadequate positioning of the first winter sport equipment 20 and/or the second winter sport equipment 20a based on the plurality of digital images and/or point clouds.
- the above mentioned method may be performed in the evaluation system 40 as computer-implemented method using the processor 42, 142 and the database 41, 141 for performing the above mentioned computer-executable instructions based on at least some of the steps of the above mentioned method.
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