Abstract: Elevator car call buttons and hall call buttons are illuminated in a first fashion (such as a first color or intermittent flashing) to indicate that the service corresponding to that call button is available to passengers (while buttons corresponding to unavailable service would have either no illumination or different illumination); the buttons then become illuminated in a distinctly different way when a service call corresponding to that button has been registered. The illumination may be thin rings surrounding the call button switch or the call button switch itself; many variations of color, position, and flashing vs. steady are disclosed.

Abstract: An elevator hall enunciator lantern includes an array (FIG. 2, FIGS. 4-8) of dual light, light emitting diodes 12-16, 56, 57 to be energized by a signal 35, 35a indicating the arrival of an up traveling elevator or the signal 36, 36a indicating the arrival of a down traveling elevator to provide a green indication or a red indication, respectively. The array may be configured so that the indication appears as an arrow 21, 22 pointing in the direction of the arriving elevator car. The indication may be scrolled (FIGS. 4-8) in the same direction as the direction of travel of the elevator car so as to provide an additional indication of the direction of travel of the arriving elevator car.