CN113546852A

CN113546852A - Logistics object sorting system, method, equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN113546852A
Application number: CN202010335507.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑石磊
Original assignee: Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-24
Filing date: 2020-04-24
Publication date: 2021-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 2040-04-24
Also published as: CN113546852B

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a logistics object sorting system, method, equipment and storage medium, so that the cost is reduced, and the site requirement is reduced. The system comprises a control end, a server end, an image acquisition end and a printing end: the control end is in signal connection with the server end, the image acquisition end and the printing end, and the printing end comprises a plurality of printing modules; the image acquisition end acquires image information of the logistics object and transmits the image information to the control end; the control end extracts the logistics codes from the image information and transmits the logistics codes to the server end, and the server end provides sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects according to the logistics codes and transmits the sorting information to the control end; and after receiving the sorting information of the server, the control end controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information.

Description

Logistics object sorting system, method, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of logistics sorting technologies, and in particular, to a logistics object sorting system, method, device, and storage medium.

Background

In the technical field of logistics sorting, an automatic sorting device is generally adopted to classify logistics objects according to information such as target addresses and distribution types, so as to realize unified management of the logistics objects. In the prior art, a full-automatic cross belt sorting machine is generally adopted to sort logistics objects, and the full-automatic cross belt sorting machine has the problems of high cost and strict site requirements.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a logistics object sorting system to reduce cost and reduce site requirements.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the application also provides a logistics object sorting method, equipment and a storage medium, which are used for ensuring the realization and application of the method.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present application discloses a logistics object sorting system, which includes a control end, a service end, an image acquisition end and a printing end: the control end is in signal connection with the server end, the image acquisition end and the printing end, and the printing end comprises a plurality of printing modules; the image acquisition end acquires image information of the logistics object and transmits the image information to the control end; the control end extracts the logistics codes from the image information and transmits the logistics codes to the server end, and the server end provides sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects according to the logistics codes and transmits the sorting information to the control end; and after receiving the sorting information of the server, the control end controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information.

The embodiment of the application also discloses a logistics object sorting method, which is applied to a logistics object sorting system, and the method comprises the following steps: acquiring image information of a logistics object; extracting a logistics code from the image information and transmitting the logistics code to a server; after the sorting information provided by the server according to the logistics codes is obtained, the corresponding printing module in the printing end is controlled to print sorting labels according to the sorting information.

The embodiment of the application also discloses an electronic device, which comprises: a processor; and a memory having executable code stored thereon that, when executed, causes the processor to perform a method as described in one or more of the embodiments of the application.

Embodiments of the present application also disclose one or more machine-readable media having executable code stored thereon that, when executed, cause a processor to perform a method as described in one or more of the embodiments of the present application.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the application has the following advantages:

in this application, the logistics object sorting system includes a control end, a server end, an image acquisition end and a printing end: the control end is in signal connection with the server end, the image acquisition end and the printing end, and the printing end comprises a plurality of printing modules; the image acquisition end acquires image information of the logistics object and transmits the image information to the control end; the control end extracts the logistics codes from the image information and transmits the logistics codes to the server end, and the server end provides sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects according to the logistics codes and transmits the sorting information to the control end; and after receiving the sorting information of the server, the control end controls the corresponding printing module to execute printing according to the sorting information and controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information. The sorting label can be printed, the sorting label is used for assisting sorting personnel in sorting logistics objects, the cost of the adopted equipment including the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end is low, and the requirements of the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end on a field are also low.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a logistics object sorting system of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a data flow diagram of a logistics object sorting system of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a printing end of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a printer of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another alternative printing end of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a relative positional relationship between a shooting position and a specified area of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic illustration of the relative positions of a logistics object and a support of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic illustration of the relative positions of a logistics object of the present application and another support;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of a belt conveyor system of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic view of another logistics object sorting system of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic data flow diagram of another logistics object sorting system of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a schematic illustration of a sortation tag for a logistics object of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a flow chart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method for sorting objects in logistics according to the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present application more comprehensible, the present application is described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.

The present application can be applied to a logistics sorting system, and fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a logistics object sorting system of the present application, and specifically includes a control end 101, a server end 102, an image acquisition end 103, and a printing end 104: the control terminal 101 is in signal connection with the server terminal 102, the image acquisition terminal 103 and the printing terminal 104, and the printing terminal 104 includes a plurality of printing modules.

Based on the schematic structural diagram of the logistics object sorting system shown in fig. 1, fig. 2 is a schematic data flow diagram of a logistics object sorting system of the present application, the image obtaining terminal 103 obtains image information of a logistics object and transmits the image information to the control terminal 101;

the control end 101 extracts a logistics code from the image information and transmits the logistics code to the service end 102, and the service end 102 provides sorting information corresponding to a logistics object according to the logistics code and transmits the sorting information to the control end 101;

after receiving the sorting information of the server 102, the control end 101 controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information.

The control end 101, the server end 102, the image acquisition end 103, and the printing end 104 may be separate physical devices, or may be virtual machines integrated on the physical devices. The signal connection between the control terminal 101 and the server terminal 102, the image acquisition terminal 103, and the printing terminal 104 may be a wireless connection, a wired connection, or the like.

Specifically, the image obtaining end 103 is configured to capture a logistics object attached with an identification tag to obtain image information, where the identification tag includes at least one of the following information: source address, destination address, sender information, receiver information and logistics codes. The source address is the address of the sender, the destination address is the address of the receiver, and the sender information comprises at least one of the following: the name and the contact mode of the sender, and the information of the receiver comprises at least one of the following items: the system comprises a receiver name, a receiver contact way and a logistics code, wherein the logistics code is a unique identification of a logistics object which is automatically generated in the logistics distribution process. The image acquisition terminal 103 is any device that can acquire images or videos, such as a general camera, a high-definition camera, a dedicated video camera, a camera with a single or multiple cameras, and the like. The present application does not limit the specific form of the image acquisition terminal 103.

The server 102 is configured to obtain sorting information according to the logistics codes, where the sorting information is classification information obtained by classifying the logistics codes, and after the logistics codes are classified according to distributors, the sorting information may be distributor information; the sorting information may be area information after being classified according to an area to which the destination address belongs. Specifically, the corresponding sorting information may be obtained according to a correspondence between a pre-generated logistics code and the sorting information, or the sorting information may be generated in real time according to the logistics code. The process of generating sorting information according to the logistics codes can comprise the following steps: firstly, segmenting logistics codes to obtain a plurality of logistics code segments, wherein the lengths of different logistics code segments can be the same or different; then, determining sorting levels for each logistics coding segment, wherein each sorting level is preset with a plurality of sorting information; finally, sorting information corresponding to the sorting levels is determined for each logistics coded segment. For example, a 6-bit stream code is divided into 3 stream code segments: a 1 st-bit first logistics coding section, 2 nd to 3 rd-bit second logistics coding section and 4 th to 6 th-bit third logistics coding section, wherein the first logistics coding section corresponds to a first sorting level, the first sorting level corresponds to 10 sorting information, 10 different values of the first logistics coding section respectively correspond to 10 different sorting information of the first sorting level, the second logistics coding section corresponds to a second sorting level, the second sorting level corresponds to 100 sorting information, and 100 different values of the second logistics coding section respectively correspond to 100 different sorting information of the second sorting level; the third sorting level corresponds to a third sorting level, the third sorting level corresponds to 1000 sorting information, and the 1000 different values of the third stream coding section correspond to 1000 different sorting information of the third sorting level respectively.

The printing end 104 is used for printing sorting labels according to the sorting information, each printing module in the printing end 104 is pre-loaded with printing paper for printing, each printing module in the printing end 104 is connected to a network through a serial server, and the printing paper becomes the sorting label after being printed with the sorting information. The printing end 104 is also provided with a label transport on which the print outlet of the print module is located to transport the sorted labels out of the printing end 104. In addition, the printing terminal 104 is also provided with a transfer control device connected to a network through a serial server for controlling the label transfer speed, and the printing module may be any device having a printing function, for example, a printer, a computer having a printing function, a virtual module for printing in a computer, and the like. The plurality of printing modules of the printing terminal 104 may perform printing simultaneously, for example, the control terminal 101 may control the plurality of printing modules to perform printing operations simultaneously, and the operations between the plurality of printing modules do not affect each other.

The control end 101 is used for making decisions, controls and schedules, so that the server end 102, the image acquisition end 103 and the printing end 104 connected with the control end are used for sorting logistics objects in order.

After receiving the image information, the control terminal 101 performs image analysis on the image information to obtain an identification tag included in the image information, and extracts a logistics code from the identification tag. The image analysis can adopt a machine model, the machine model is obtained by training an image sample set, the image sample set is marked with a label sample, and the label sample also contains the same content as the identification label, so that the trained machine model can identify the identification label from the image information.

After receiving the sorting information of the server 102, the control end 101 may determine a corresponding printing module according to a pre-stored correspondence between the printing module and the sorting information, and transmit printing control information to the corresponding printing module, where the printing control information at least carries the sorting information and may also carry some other information, where the other information includes at least one of the following information: the logistics code, part of logistics code, logistics company code or name, and sorting date, the printing module extracts sorting information from the printing control information after receiving the printing control information, prints sorting labels at least containing the sorting information, and can also extract other information from the printing control information and print the other information to the sorting labels. This scheme is applicable to printers that can operate and communicate independently, as print modules, and that constitute the print end 104.

After receiving the sorting information of the server 102, the control end 101 may further determine a corresponding printing module according to a pre-stored correspondence between the printing module and the sorting information, and transmit printing control information to the printing end 104, where the printing control information at least carries the sorting information and the printing module identifier, and may also carry some other information, where the other information includes at least one of the following information: the logistics code, part of logistics code, logistics company code or name, and sorting date, after receiving the printing control information, the printing end 104 extracts the sorting information and the printing module identifier from the printing control information, prints the sorting label at least containing the sorting information through the printing module corresponding to the printing module identifier, and can also extract the rest information from the printing control information, and print the rest information to the sorting label. This scheme may be applied to the same printer integrated with multiple print modules as the print end 104.

It can be understood that the printed sorting labels contain sorting information, so that a sorter can quickly and accurately sort logistics objects according to the sorting information in the sorting labels. The sorting staff is a worker who specially sorts the logistics objects, and may be, for example, a distributor who distributes the logistics objects according to the sorting information in the sorting labels.

Optionally, each of the printing modules is a separate printer.

It will be appreciated that each printer acts as a separate device, each having a separate print outlet for outputting printed sortation labels.

According to the method and the device, a plurality of independent printers can be directly used as a virtual printing end, and a special printing end does not need to be constructed.

Alternatively, the printing outlets of a plurality of printing modules of the printing end 104 are arranged adjacently, or share the same printing outlet.

The adjacent arrangement of the printing outlets can be that the printing outlets are closer, as shown in a structural schematic diagram of a printing end shown in fig. 3, the printing modules are arranged side by side, and the printing outlets are also adjacent side by side, so that the printing module is suitable for an application scenario in which independently working printers are used as the printing modules; as shown in fig. 4, a schematic diagram of a printer is shown, in the same printer integrated with a plurality of printing modules, the plurality of printing modules share a printing outlet of the printer.

When printing paper that every printing module used is different, the letter sorting label of printing out is different to it is adjacent or common to print the export and can make letter sorting personnel can obtain different letter sorting labels in same region, helps improving letter sorting efficiency. Note that the difference in the printing paper may include, for example, a difference in color, a difference in shape, a difference in size, a difference in pattern, and the like of the printing paper, or may include a combination of the above, for example, a difference in color and shape, a difference in color and size, and the like of the printing paper, as long as the difference is produced, and is not particularly limited herein.

Optionally, each of the printing modules includes a paper feeding roll, a paper discharging roll and a guide rod, a plurality of the paper feeding rolls are arranged side by side, a plurality of the paper discharging rolls are arranged side by side, and a plurality of the printing outlets are arranged side by side; the guide bar of a printing module located at the edge of the plurality of printing modules is longer than the guide bar of a printing module located in the middle.

As shown in fig. 5, the printing end 104 includes five printing modules, each of which corresponds to a paper feeding roll, a paper discharging roll, a guide bar, a printing head and a label peeling device, the printing head is located on the guide bar of the paper feeding roll, the label peeling device is located on the guide bar of the paper discharging roll, the paper feeding roll is driven by a paper feeding roll rotating shaft to rotate, and the paper discharging roll is driven by a paper discharging roll rotating shaft to rotate. For the paper feeding rolls, in order to make the tail of the guide rod of each paper feeding roll and the tail of the guide rod of the paper discharging roll approach the printing outlet, the guide rod of the paper feeding roll positioned at the edge is longer than the guide rod of the paper feeding roll positioned at the middle, and the guide rod of the paper discharging roll positioned at the edge is longer than the guide rod of the paper discharging roll positioned at the middle. For example, the print modules corresponding to the paper feeding roll PI1 and the paper discharging roll PO1 in fig. 5, the print modules corresponding to the paper feeding roll PI5 and the paper discharging roll PO5 are located at the far edge, the print modules corresponding to the paper feeding roll PI2 and the paper discharging roll PO2, the print modules corresponding to the paper feeding roll PI4 and the paper discharging roll PO4 are located at the near edge, and the print modules corresponding to the paper feeding roll PI3 and the paper discharging roll PO3 are located in the middle, so that: the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI1 is longer than the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI2, the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI2 is longer than the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI3, the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI4 is longer than the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI3, the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI5 is longer than the guide bar of the paper feed roll PI4, the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO1 is longer than the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO2, the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO2 is longer than the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO3, the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO4 is longer than the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO3, and the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO5 is longer than the guide bar of the paper discharge roll PO 4.

This application can be through the guide bar of different length with the printing module's that sets up side by side printing export setting in adjacent position, printing paper when every printing module used and beating the printing paper different, for example beat the color, shape, size or the pattern of printing paper different, the letter sorting label color, shape, size or the pattern of printing out are different to it is adjacent to print the export and can make letter sorting personnel can acquire the letter sorting label of different colors, shape, size or pattern in same region, helps improving letter sorting efficiency.

Optionally, the control end 101 determines the printing time of the printer according to the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area and the printing speed of the printing module.

Wherein, the designated area is a space area for attaching the sorting label, and the designated area may include but is not limited to: the printing device comprises a space area arranged at a printing outlet and a space area arranged at a preset distance from the printing outlet. When the logistics objects reach the designated area, the corresponding sorting labels are attached to the logistics objects, so that the logistics objects and the corresponding sorting labels need to reach the designated area at the same time, and labeling errors caused by attaching the sorting labels to the logistics objects which do not correspond to each other are avoided.

In order to enable the logistics object and the corresponding sorting label to reach the designated area at the same time, the printing time for the printing end 104 to print the sorting label needs to be accurately calculated, and the printing time may be the printing start time. When the designated area is positioned at a printing outlet, firstly, determining the printing time length required for printing the sorting label according to the printing speed; then, the printing time length is subtracted from the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area, and the printing start time of the sorting label can be obtained. When a preset distance exists between the designated area and the printing outlet, firstly, determining the printing time required for printing the sorting label according to the printing speed; then, determining the label conveying time required for conveying the sorted labels from the printing outlet to the designated area according to the preset distance and the conveying speed of the sorted labels; finally, the printing time length and the label conveying time length are subtracted from the time when the logistics objects reach the designated area, and the printing starting time of the sorted labels can be obtained. Wherein the sorted labels may be delivered to the designated area by label delivery means, which may include, but are not limited to: conveyor belts, conveyor carts, and the like.

When the logistics object and the corresponding sorting label reach the designated area, the labeler in the designated area applies the sorting label to the logistics object. Of course, there are also abnormal situations AN1, AN2, and AN 3: AN 1: when the logistics objects reach the designated area, but no corresponding sorting label reaches the designated area, the labeler cannot paste the sorting label at the moment; AN 2: when the sorting label reaches the designated area, but no corresponding logistics object reaches the designated area, the labeler cannot paste the sorting label at the moment, and the sorting label is discarded; AN 3: meanwhile, a plurality of sorting labels or a plurality of logistics objects reach the designated area, the labeler does not paste the sorting labels on the logistics objects, mispasting is avoided, and the sorting labels are discarded.

For the logistics objects which are not pasted with the sorting labels, the logistics objects can be conveyed to equipment or an area for collecting the logistics objects which are not pasted with the sorting labels, so that the corresponding sorting labels are printed after the logistics objects are subjected to manual image information identification, and the sorting labels are pasted on the logistics objects.

According to the method and the device, the printing time of the printer can be accurately predicted according to the time when the logistics objects reach the designated area and the printing speed, so that the sorting labels are accurately attached to the corresponding logistics objects.

Optionally, the logistics object sorting system further comprises a logistics object conveying device for conveying the logistics objects.

The logistics object conveying device can be used for conveying the logistics objects from equipment or an area for collecting the logistics objects to be attached with the sorting labels to the image acquisition end 103, so that the image acquisition end 103 photographs the passing logistics objects to obtain image information of the logistics objects; the logistics object conveying device can be further used for continuously conveying the logistics objects from the image acquisition end 103 to a specified area so as to attach sorting labels to the logistics objects; the logistics object conveying device can be further used for continuously conveying the logistics objects with the sorting labels from the designated area to the area for collecting the logistics objects with the sorting labels, so that a distributor can obtain the logistics objects to be distributed; the logistics object conveying device can also be used for conveying the logistics objects which are not provided with the sorting labels to an area for collecting the logistics objects which are not provided with the sorting labels, so that the logistics objects which are not provided with the sorting labels are manually identified and are provided with the sorting labels; the logistics object conveying device can also be used for conveying the logistics objects which are manually identified and pasted with the sorting labels from the area for collecting the logistics objects which are not pasted with the sorting labels to the area for collecting the logistics objects which are pasted with the sorting labels.

This application can convey the commodity circulation object through commodity circulation object conveyer, and the cost of labor of avoiding artifical conveying to lead to is higher.

Optionally, after the control end 101 extracts the logistics code, the control end 101 determines the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area according to the shooting time of the image acquisition end 103, the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the designated area, and the speed of the logistics object conveying device.

The shooting time of the image acquisition end 103 is the time when the image acquisition end 103 shoots the logistics object, the shooting position of the image information is the position of the logistics object when the image acquisition end 103 shoots the logistics object, and the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the designated area is the actual distance which is passed by the logistics object from the shooting position of the image information to the designated area. When a belt conveying system is employed as the physical distribution conveying means for conveying the physical distribution object, the distance is the length of the belt conveying system between the shooting position and the specified area. Since the belt conveyor system is not necessarily linear, the distance is not a straight distance between the photographing position and the designated area. For example, as shown in a schematic diagram of a relative positional relationship between the photographing position and the designated area shown in fig. 6, L1 is a straight distance of the photographing position and the designated area, L2 is a length of the belt conveying system between the photographing position and the designated area, and it can be seen that L2> L1. Ideally, when the conveyor belt is linear, the length of the belt conveyor system between the photographing position and the designated area may be a linear distance between the photographing position and the designated area, so that L2 is L1. Ideally, the cost of the belt conveyor system can be reduced.

In one example, first, a time period required for the logistics transport apparatus to transport the logistics object from the shooting position to the specified area may be obtained according to the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the specified area divided by the speed of the logistics object transport apparatus; then, the sum of the shooting time and the time length required for conveying the logistics object from the shooting position to the specified area is calculated, and the time for the logistics object to reach the specified area is obtained. For example, if the distance between the image capturing position and the designated area is 3 meters and the speed of the logistics object transportation device is 0.3 m/s, the time period required for the logistics transportation device to transport the logistics object from the image capturing position to the designated area is 3/0.3 to 10 seconds, and if the image capturing time of the image acquisition end 103 is 09:10:10, the time for the logistics object to obtain the designated area is 09:10:10+10 to 09:10: 20.

According to the logistics object conveying device, the time for the logistics object to reach the designated area can be accurately determined through the shooting time of the image acquisition end 103, the distance between the shooting position and the designated area and the speed of the logistics object conveying device, and the logistics object can be accurately conveyed.

Optionally, after the control end 101 extracts the logistics code, the control end 101 determines the printing time of the printer according to the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area, the printing speed of the printing module, and a duration overhead, where the duration overhead includes at least one of: the time length for the image acquisition end 103 to transmit the image information to the control end 101, the time length for the control end 101 to extract the logistics code, the time length for the control end 101 to transmit the logistics code to the service end 102, the time length for the service end 102 to provide sorting information corresponding to the logistics object according to the logistics code, and the time length for the service end 102 to transmit the sorting information to the control end 101.

The time duration overhead includes the time duration consumed by the control end 101 to control the printing of the sorting label according to the shot image information after the image acquisition end 103 shoots the logistics object, and to transmit and process various information. After the image acquisition end 103 captures image information of the logistics object, on one hand, the image acquisition end 103 transmits the logistics object to a designated area, and on the other hand, referring to a data flow diagram of a logistics object sorting system shown in fig. 2, the following various information transmission and data processing processes are further performed: the image acquisition end 103 transmits image information to the control end 101, the control end 101 extracts logistics codes, the control end 101 transmits the logistics codes to the service end 102, the service end 102 extracts sorting information from the logistics codes, the service end 102 transmits the sorting information to the control end 101, and the control end 101 controls the printing end 104 to print. It can be seen that if the sorting label to be printed by the printing end 104 and the logistics object arrive at the designated area at the same time, the influence of the time overhead introduced by the above-mentioned transmission and data processing needs to be considered.

The duration of the image information being transmitted to the control terminal 101 by the image obtaining terminal 103 may be determined according to the data transmission speed between the image obtaining terminal 103 and the control terminal 101 and the size of the image information, and the data transmission speed between the image obtaining terminal 103 and the control terminal 101 may be related to the network speed between the image obtaining terminal 103 and the control terminal 101. For example, if the image information is 5MB and the data transmission speed between the image acquisition terminal 103 and the control terminal 101 is 100MB per second, the time length for the image acquisition terminal 103 to transmit the image information to the control terminal 101 may be 5/100-0.05 second-50 milliseconds.

The duration of the stream code extracted by the control end 101 may be determined according to the Processing speed of the control end 101 and the size of the image information, where the Processing speed of the control end 101 is related to the Processing frequency and the current task amount of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the control end 101. For example, if the image information is 5MB and the processing speed of the control terminal 101 is 10MB per second, the time length for the control terminal 101 to extract the stream code may be 5/10-0.5-500 ms.

The duration for the control end 101 to transmit the logistics code to the service end 102 may be determined according to the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 and the size of the logistics code, and the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 is related to the network speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102. For example, if the logistics code is 100KB, and the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 is 100MB per second, the time duration for the control end 101 to transmit the logistics code to the service end 102 may be 100/(100 × 1024) ═ 0.00098 second ═ 0.98 ms.

The duration of the sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects provided by the server 102 according to the logistics code can be determined according to the processing speed of the server 102 and the size of the logistics code, wherein the processing speed of the server 102 is related to the CPU processing frequency and the current task amount of the server 102. For example, if the logistics code is 100KB and the processing speed of the server 102 is 10MB per second, the time period for the server 102 to provide the sorting information may be 100/(10 × 1024) ═ 0.0098 second ═ 9.8 milliseconds.

The duration of the time for the server 102 to transmit the sorting information to the controller 101 may be determined according to the data transmission speed between the server 102 and the controller 101 and the size of the sorting information, and the data transmission speed between the server 102 and the controller 101 may be related to the network speed between the server 102 and the controller 101. For example, if the sorting information is 80KB and the data transmission speed between the server 102 and the controller 101 is 100MB per second, the time period for the server 102 to transmit the sorting information to the controller 101 may be 80/(100 × 1024) ═ 0.00078 sec ═ 0.78 msec.

After obtaining various durations in the duration overheads, calculating to obtain printing time, firstly, taking one or a sum of a plurality of durations of the duration overheads as the duration overheads, then determining the printing duration required for printing the sorting labels according to the printing speed, and finally, when the specified area is located at the printing outlet of the printing end 104, ignoring the conveying duration between the sorting labels and the specified area, and subtracting the printing duration and the duration overheads from the time when the logistics conveying device conveys the logistics objects from the shooting position to the specified area to obtain the printing time; when the designated area has a preset distance from the printing outlet of the printing end 104, the label conveying time length can be obtained by dividing the preset distance by the conveying speed of the sorted labels, and the printing time length and the label conveying time length are subtracted from the time when the logistics conveying device conveys the logistics objects from the shooting position to the designated area, and then the time length overhead is subtracted to obtain the printing time.

According to the method and the device, control printing with accurate time spending is combined, the fact that the sorting labels and the logistics objects arrive at the designated area at the same time is further guaranteed, and the sorting accuracy of the logistics objects is further improved.

Optionally, the logistics object conveying device is a belt conveying system.

The belt conveyor system may be divided into several conveyor segments, each conveyor segment effecting a transfer from a starting location to a target location, the starting location and the target location may typically be one physical device or area. In the present application, during the conveying process of the logistics objects, the equipment or area for collecting the to-be-labeled logistics objects starts to convey through the image acquisition end 103, the designated area, the equipment or area for collecting the non-labeled logistics objects and the equipment or area for collecting the labeled logistics objects, so that the belt conveying system shown in fig. 9 can be obtained, for the first conveying section CB1, the starting position can be the equipment or area for collecting the to-be-labeled logistics objects, and the target position is the image acquisition end 103, so that the conveying of the to-be-labeled logistics objects to the image acquisition end 103 is realized to capture the image information of the logistics objects; for the second conveying section CB2, the starting position may be the image acquiring end 103, and the target position is a designated area, so that the logistics object with the shot image information is conveyed to the designated area to attach a sorting label to the logistics object; for the third conveying section CB3, the starting position is a designated area, and the target position is a device or area for collecting the logistics objects with sorting labels attached, thereby realizing the conveying of the logistics objects with sorting labels attached to the device or area for collecting the logistics objects with sorting labels attached; for the fourth conveying section CB4, the starting position may be a designated area, and the target position is a device or area for collecting the logistics objects to which the sorting tags are not attached, thereby realizing the conveying of the logistics objects to which the sorting tags are not attached to the device or area for collecting the logistics objects to which the sorting tags are not attached; for the fifth transfer section CB5, the starting position may be a device or area for collecting non-labeled logistics objects that are not labeled for sorting, and the target position is a device or area for collecting labeled logistics objects for sorting, thereby realizing the transfer of the logistics objects that are manually identified for sorting information and labeled for sorting to the device or area for collecting labeled logistics objects for sorting.

This application can adopt belt conveyor system as commodity circulation object conveyer, because belt conveyor system's cost is lower and the installation is simple to help reducing the cost of letter sorting and the complexity of equipment fixing.

Optionally, the logistics object conveying device further includes a speed regulating system, where the speed regulating system is connected to the control end 101 through a signal, and conveys the logistics object according to the speed information after receiving the speed information conveyed by the speed regulating system.

The speed regulating system can be a computer or a virtual machine with simple computing capacity, can determine speed information according to the number of the logistics objects to be attached with the sorting labels, and determines larger speed information if the number of the logistics objects to be attached with the sorting labels is larger; if the number of the logistics objects to be attached with the sorting labels is small, a piece of small speed information is determined. Specifically, a functional relationship between the number of the logistics objects to which the sorting labels are to be attached and the speed information may be established, the functional relationship being a forward relationship, so that the speed information may be adjusted in real time according to the number of the logistics objects to which the sorting labels are to be attached. Therefore, when the number of logistics objects to be labeled with the sorting labels is large, the logistics objects can be quickly conveyed, so that the logistics objects can be sorted as soon as possible; the logistics objects can be conveyed slowly when the logistics objects to be attached with the sorting labels are fewer.

The method and the device can control the conveying speed of the logistics objects through the speed regulating system, and achieve adjustability of the conveying speed.

Optionally, the printing module in the printing end 104 further comprises a label peeling device.

The label peeling device is used for peeling the printed sorting labels from the printing paper. The label peeling device may be any device that can cut printing paper, such as a blade. As shown in fig. 5, the label peeling means is located at the end of the guide bar.

The automatic stripping of printed sorting labels can be realized, and the high labor cost caused by manual stripping is avoided.

Optionally, the logistics object sorting system further comprises a designated area, and the printing module prints out that the time difference between the sorting label and the logistics object arriving at the designated area is within a designated threshold value.

The designated area is an area for attaching a sorting label, and optionally, the designated area may be disposed at a printing outlet of the printing end 104, so that when the printing end 104 prints out the sorting label, the logistics object also reaches the printing outlet, and accurate attachment of the sorting label to the corresponding logistics object is achieved.

It is understood that the designated threshold is a small value, and the designated threshold is a maximum time difference between the printing module printing the sorting label and the logistics object reaching the designated area, which can be set according to the practical application scenario in practical application, and the application does not limit the present invention. For example, 100 milliseconds may be set.

According to the method and the device, the time difference of the sorting label and the logistics object reaching the designated area can be guaranteed to be within the designated threshold value, and therefore the sorting label is accurately attached to the corresponding logistics object.

Optionally, the logistics object sorting system further includes an ethernet switch and a serial server, where the ethernet switch is used to connect the control terminal 101 and the image acquisition terminal 103, and the ethernet switch and the serial server are used to connect the control terminal 101 and the printing terminal 104.

The Ethernet exchanger is the equipment used for program control exchange in the Ethernet, and the Ethernet is a computer local area network. The serial port server provides a serial port network switching function, can convert the RS-232/485/422 serial port into a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)/IP (Internet Protocol) network interface, and realizes bidirectional transparent data Transmission between the RS-232/485/422 serial port and the TCP/IP network interface or supports MODBUS (Serial communication Protocol) Protocol bidirectional Transmission. The serial port equipment can immediately have the function of a TCP/IP network interface, is connected with a network for data communication, and expands the communication distance of the serial port equipment.

According to the method and the device, the control end 101, the image acquisition end 103 and the serial port server are connected through the Ethernet switch, the control end 101 and the printing end 104 are connected through the Ethernet switch and the serial port server, and therefore the control end 101, the image acquisition end 103 and the serial port server are located in a local area network. As shown in fig. 10, another schematic structural diagram of the logistics object sorting system is that an ethernet switch is respectively connected to an image acquisition end 103, a control end 101, and a serial port server through ethernet lines, and a print end 104 is connected to the serial port server through a serial port line. As shown in fig. 11, another data flow diagram of the logistics object sorting system, when the image obtaining end 103 needs to transmit image information to the control end 101, it first transmits the image information to the ethernet switch, and then the ethernet switch transmits the image information to the control end 101; when the control end 101 needs to transmit the sorting information to the printing end 104, it first transmits the sorting information to the ethernet switch, and then the ethernet switch transmits the sorting information to the serial service end, and the serial service end transmits the sorting information to the printing end 104.

According to the method and the device, the local area network connection among the control terminal, the image acquisition terminal 103 and the printing terminal 104 can be realized through the Ethernet switch, and the data transmission speed among the local area networks is high, so that the improvement of the transmission speed among the control terminal, the image acquisition terminal 103 and the printing terminal 104 is facilitated.

Optionally, the logistics code is a code of a logistics object, the code including at least one of: characters, bar codes, and two-dimensional codes.

The code of the logistics object is a unique identifier of the logistics object, and may be one of a character, a barcode and a two-dimensional code, or a combination of two or more of the following characters: the number, the letter and the special symbol can be single numbers, letters or special characters, or can be one or the combination of two of the numbers, the letters and the special characters, the bar code distinguishes different logistics objects through the space and the width of the bar code, and the two-dimensional code is woven through characters or other information.

According to the method and the device, each logistics object can be uniquely identified through the characters, the bar codes and the two-dimensional codes, so that the logistics objects can be accurately tracked, and sorting labels of the logistics objects can be accurately generated.

Optionally, the logistics object sorting system further comprises a bracket for erecting the image acquisition end 103 above the logistics object.

The support is any device that can mount the image capturing end 103 above the logistics object, and includes but is not limited to: a portal frame in a door shape, a straight rod in a vertical shape and the like. For example, as shown in fig. 7, the schematic diagram of the relative positions of the logistics object and a bracket, the gantry is formed by a gantry, the image capturing end 103 is arranged on the gantry, the range formed by the dotted lines is the shooting range of the image capturing end 103, and the logistics object is located in the shooting range; a schematic diagram of the relative positions of the logistics object and another support as shown in fig. 8; the top end of the vertical straight rod is provided with an image acquisition end 103, the range formed by the dotted lines is the shooting range of the image acquisition end 103, and the logistics object is located in the shooting range.

It can be understood that the image capturing end 103 in fig. 7 may also be located at other positions of the gantry, and the image capturing end 103 in fig. 8 may also be located at other positions of the straight rod, as long as it is ensured that the shooting range of the image capturing end 103 covers the logistics object.

This application can erect image acquisition end 103 in the top of commodity circulation object through the support, conveniently acquires the image information of commodity circulation object.

Optionally, the image acquisition end 103 is an industrial camera.

Compared with a common camera, the industrial camera has the following characteristics:

(1) the industrial camera has higher performance, compact and firm structure and easy installation. The industrial camera can be stably and reliably used for a long time under a poor environment.

(2) The shutter time of the industrial camera is very short, and the object moving at high speed can be captured, so that the logistics object in the conveying process can be shot clearly. .

(3) The frame rate of the industrial camera is very high, 10 or even hundreds of images can be captured per second, and the common camera can only capture 2 to 3 images. Therefore, the phenomenon that one logistics object is missed to be shot due to the fact that the conveying speed is too high can be avoided.

(4) And the industrial camera outputs raw data and has wide spectrum. The output of a common camera only fits the spectrum of the human eye and, after compression, the image quality is poor.

(5) The image sensor of the industrial camera is progressive scanning, the process requirement is high, and the common camera is interlaced scanning.

The image acquisition terminal can adopt the industrial camera as the image acquisition terminal to improve the efficiency, reliability and image quality of image acquisition and avoid missing shooting.

Optionally, the logistics code and the sorting information of the logistics object are stored in the server 102 correspondingly.

In this application, after each logistics object is registered in the server 102, the server 102 generates a logistics code for the logistics object, and generates one or more sorting information according to the logistics code, so as to store the logistics code and the sorting information according to a corresponding relationship. Specifically, the server 102 may be provided with a storage device therein, so as to store the logistics code and the sorting information into the storage device according to the corresponding relationship.

The process of generating sorting information according to the logistics codes may include: firstly, segmenting logistics codes to obtain a plurality of logistics code segments, wherein the lengths of different logistics code segments can be the same or different; then, determining sorting levels for each logistics coding segment, wherein each sorting level is preset with a plurality of sorting information; finally, sorting information corresponding to the sorting levels is determined for each logistics coded segment. For example, a 6-bit stream code is divided into 3 stream code segments: a 1 st-bit first logistics coding section, 2 nd to 3 rd-bit second logistics coding section and 4 th to 6 th-bit third logistics coding section, wherein the first logistics coding section corresponds to a first sorting level, the first sorting level corresponds to 10 sorting information, 10 different values of the first logistics coding section respectively correspond to 10 different sorting information of the first sorting level, the second logistics coding section corresponds to a second sorting level, the second sorting level corresponds to 100 sorting information, and 100 different values of the second logistics coding section respectively correspond to 100 different sorting information of the second sorting level; the third sorting level corresponds to a third sorting level, the third sorting level corresponds to 1000 sorting information, and the 1000 different values of the third stream coding section correspond to 1000 different sorting information of the third sorting level respectively.

Because the distribution process of the logistics objects can have a plurality of sorting nodes according to the distribution destination address, each sorting node realizes a sorting process, and each sorting process is a process for determining sorting information, so that the sorting information is a plurality of sorting information corresponding to a plurality of sorting processes.

In another example, the sorting information may not be generated in advance according to the logistics code, and the server 102 does not store the relationship between the logistics code and the sorting information, so that the server 102 needs to extract the logistics code from the image information and generate the sorting information in real time according to the process of generating the sorting information according to the logistics code. Compared with the real-time generation of the sorting information, the pre-generation of the sorting information is beneficial to shortening the time consumed by the generation of the sorting information and improving the sorting speed.

The storage device may include, but is not limited to: memory, cache, external storage device.

Optionally, the logistics object includes a sorting label, and the sorting label includes sorting information and at least part of the logistics code.

In practical application, after the sorting labels are printed, the sorting labels are attached to logistics objects, so that sorting can be realized simply, conveniently and quickly. Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a sorting label of a logistics object, where AH is sorting information, a logistics name may be a name of a logistics company, 10/08 may be a sorting time of the logistics object, and 0004 may be a logistics code of an end portion or a middle portion, etc.

This application can help improving letter sorting efficiency through the supplementary letter sorting process to the commodity circulation object of letter sorting label of printing.

Optionally, the printing module is correspondingly provided with an indicator light for sending out a prompt.

Specifically, the indicator light and the printing module have a corresponding relationship in position, for example, if the printing module is an independent printer, an indicator light may be set on each printer; if the printing module is a virtual machine integrated on the physical device, a plurality of indicator lights may be arranged on the physical device and arranged according to a certain position, and the indicator light at each position corresponds to one virtual machine.

During or after the printing of each printing module is completed, the sorting label of the logistics object can be prompted to be printed by the printing module through the indicator lamp. The indication manner of the indicator light is not limited, and for example, the indicator light may flash at a certain frequency or may be continuously turned on for a certain time, so that if the indicator light on the printer PR1 flashes, printing is performed on behalf of the printer PR 1; if one of the indicator lights on the physical device blinks and the indicator light at the position corresponds to the print module PM1, printing is performed on behalf of the print module PM 1.

In an alternative arrangement, the indicator light may not be provided when there is only one print outlet, or the print outlets are closer together or even close together.

The application can prompt the printing module to execute printing through the indicating lamp.

Optionally, different printing papers are respectively and correspondingly placed on the printing modules in the printing end 104, where the different printing papers include at least one of: printing paper of different colors, printing paper of different patterns, printing paper of different shapes, and printing paper of different sizes.

In this application, printing paper of different colors, shapes, patterns or sizes can be used in different printing modules, and printing paper of one color, shape, pattern or size corresponds to one distributor, so that the distributor can directly and quickly identify the logistics objects to be distributed according to the color, shape, pattern or size. For example, for the print modules PM1, PM2, PM3, PM4, PM5, PM6, PM7, and PM8, large red, pink, dark blue, light green, black, and brown printing paper are respectively used, wherein the large red printer corresponds to the distributor DC1, pink printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC2, dark blue printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC3, light blue printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC4, dark green printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC5, light green printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC6, black printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC7, and brown printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC8, so that the distributor DC1 can quickly recognize that the large red sorting label printed by the print module PM1 with the large red printing paper is pink sorting label, and take the logistics object to which the large red sorting label is pasted to be distributed, and the distributor DC2 can quickly recognize that the print module PM2 prints the large red printing paper with the large red sorting label, and takes the logistics object labeled with the pink sorting label away for distribution, the distributor DC3 can quickly recognize a dark blue sorting label printed with dark blue printing paper by the printing module PM3 and takes the logistics object labeled with the dark blue sorting label away for distribution, the distributor DC4 can quickly recognize a light blue sorting label printed with light blue printing paper by the printing module PM4 and takes the logistics object labeled with the light blue sorting label away for distribution, the distributor DC5 can quickly recognize a dark green sorting label printed with dark green printing paper by the printing module PM5 and takes the logistics object labeled with the dark green sorting label away for distribution, the distributor DC6 can quickly recognize a light green sorting label printed with light green printing paper by the printing module PM6 and takes the logistics object labeled with the light green sorting label away for distribution, the distributor DC7 can quickly recognize a black sorting label printed with black printing paper by the printing module PM7, and takes the logistics objects attached with the black sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC8 can quickly recognize the brown sorting label printed with the brown printing paper by the printing module PM8 and take the logistics objects attached with the brown sorting label for distribution.

In another embodiment, printing paper with different patterns can be used in different printing modules, and printing paper with one pattern corresponds to one distributor, so that the distributor can directly and quickly identify the logistics objects to be distributed according to the patterns. For example, for the printing modules PM1, PM2, PM3, PM4, PM5, PM6, PM7, PM8, which respectively employ building pattern, portrait pattern, elephant pattern, plant pattern, mountain pattern, grid pattern, rosette pattern, circle pattern printing paper, wherein the building pattern printer corresponds to the distributor DC1, the portrait pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC2, the elephant pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC3, the plant pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC4, the mountain pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC5, the grid pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC6, the rosette pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC7, the circle pattern printing paper corresponds to the distributor DC8, so that the distributor DC1 can quickly recognize that the printing module PM1 sorts the label with the printed building pattern of the building pattern, and takes the logistics object to which the building pattern label to be pasted to be sorted for distribution, the distributor DC2 can quickly recognize a human-type pattern sorting label printed with human-type pattern printing paper by the printing module PM2 and take away the physical distribution object attached with the human-type pattern sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC3 can quickly recognize a elephant pattern sorting label printed with elephant-type pattern printing paper by the printing module PM3 and take away the physical distribution object attached with the elephant pattern sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC4 can quickly recognize a plant pattern sorting label printed with plant-type pattern printing paper by the printing module PM4 and take away the physical distribution object attached with the plant pattern sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC5 can quickly recognize a mountain pattern sorting label printed with mountain-type pattern printing paper by the printing module PM5 and take away the physical distribution object attached with the mountain pattern sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC6 can quickly recognize a grid pattern sorting label printed with grid pattern printing paper by the printing module PM6, and takes the logistics object attached with the grid pattern sorting label for distribution, the distributor DC7 can quickly recognize the rose pattern sorting label printed with the rose pattern printing paper by the printing module PM7 and take the logistics object attached with the rose pattern sorting label for distribution, and the distributor DC8 can quickly recognize the circle pattern sorting label printed with the circle pattern printing paper by the printing module PM8 and take the logistics object attached with the circle pattern sorting label for distribution.

Of course, it is also possible to combine colors, patterns, shapes or sizes, for example, a red plant pattern and a blue plant pattern are different, and a red circular printing paper and a green rectangular printing paper are different.

This application can print out different letter sorting labels through the beat printing paper of difference to help the dispenser to discern the commodity circulation object that oneself will deliver fast, reduce the dispenser and get the express delivery and consume long time, improved delivery efficiency.

Optionally, the control terminal 101 is an industrial control computer.

The industrial control computer is an industrial control computer, has better computing performance than a commercial computer compared with the commercial computer, and is mainly used for detecting and controlling a production process, electromechanical equipment and process equipment, so that higher requirements of the industry can be met. One of them industry control computer commonly used is portable, and it has not only guaranteed the calculation performance, has still realized convenient characteristic, and main constitution includes: the portable computer comprises a case, a display screen, a keyboard, a main board, a bottom board, a CPU, a driver, a power supply system, a fan and a portable box.

The application can adopt the industrial control computer as the control end, and is beneficial to improving the calculation performance of the control end.

The embodiment of the application provides a logistics object sorting system, including control end, server side, image acquisition end and printing end: the control end is in signal connection with the server end, the image acquisition end and the printing end, and the printing end comprises a plurality of printing modules; the image acquisition end acquires image information of the logistics object and transmits the image information to the control end; the control end extracts the logistics codes from the image information and transmits the logistics codes to the server end, and the server end provides sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects according to the logistics codes and transmits the sorting information to the control end; and after receiving the sorting information of the server, the control end controls the corresponding printing module to execute printing according to the sorting information and controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information. The sorting label can be printed, the sorting label is used for assisting sorting personnel in sorting logistics objects, the cost of the adopted equipment including the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end is low, and the requirements of the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end on a field are also low.

Referring to fig. 13, a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of the logistics object sorting method according to the present application is shown, where the method is applied to the logistics object sorting system shown in fig. 1, and specifically includes the following steps:

step 201, acquiring image information of the logistics object.

In the embodiment of the present application, the control end 101 is described in detail, that is, steps 201 to 203 are steps executed by the control end 101.

The image information of the logistics object is obtained by shooting the logistics object attached with the identification tag by the image obtaining terminal 103, the image information includes the identification tag, and the image information is transmitted to the control terminal 101 by the image obtaining terminal 103.

Wherein, the identification label comprises at least one of the following information: source address, destination address, sender information, receiver information and logistics codes. The source address is the address of the sender, the destination address is the address of the receiver, and the sender information comprises at least one of the following: the name and the contact mode of the sender, and the information of the receiver comprises at least one of the following items: the system comprises a receiver name, a receiver contact way and a logistics code, wherein the logistics code is a unique identification of a logistics object which is automatically generated in the logistics distribution process.

Step 202, extracting a logistics code from the image information and transmitting the logistics code to a server.

Step 203, after the sorting information provided by the server according to the logistics code is obtained, controlling a corresponding printing module in the printing end to print a sorting label according to the sorting information.

Optionally, in the step of controlling, after acquiring the sorting information provided by the server 102 according to the logistics code, a corresponding printing module in the printing terminal 104 to print a sorting label according to the sorting information, the control terminal 101 is configured to determine a printing time of the printing module according to a time when the logistics object reaches a specified area and a printing speed of the printing module, and control the printing module corresponding to the printing terminal 104 to print at the printing time.

Optionally, in the step of controlling, after acquiring the sorting information provided by the server 102 according to the logistics code, the corresponding printing module in the printer 104 to print the sorting label according to the sorting information, after the control end 101 extracts the logistics code, the control end 101 determines, according to the shooting time of the image acquisition end 103, the distance between the image information shooting position and the designated area, and the speed of the logistics object conveying device, the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area.

In one example, first, a time period required for the logistics transport apparatus to transport the logistics object from the shooting position to the specified area may be obtained according to the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the specified area divided by the speed of the logistics object transport apparatus; then, the sum of the shooting time and the time length required for conveying the logistics object from the shooting position to the specified area is calculated, and the time for the logistics object to reach the specified area is obtained. For example, if the distance between the image capturing position and the designated area is 3 meters and the speed of the logistics object transportation device is 0.3 m/s, the time period required for the logistics transportation device to transport the logistics object from the image capturing position to the designated area is 3/0.3 to 10 seconds, and if the image capturing time of the image acquisition end 103103 is 09:10:10, the time for the logistics object to obtain the designated area is 09:10:10 to 20.

Optionally, in the step of controlling, after acquiring the sorting information provided by the server 102 according to the logistics code, a corresponding printing module in the printing terminal 104 to print a sorting label according to the sorting information, after the control terminal 101 extracts the logistics code, the control terminal 101 determines the printing time of the printer according to the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area, the printing speed of the printing module, and a duration overhead, where the duration overhead includes at least one of: the method comprises the steps of obtaining the duration of image information of a logistics object, extracting the duration of a logistics code, transmitting the logistics code to a server 102, providing the duration of sorting information corresponding to the logistics object by the server 102 according to the logistics code, and transmitting the sorting information to the control end 101 by the server 102.

The duration for the image obtaining end 103 to transmit the image information to the control end 101, that is, the duration for obtaining the image information of the logistics object, may be determined according to the data transmission speed between the image obtaining end 103 and the control end 101 and the size of the image information, and the data transmission speed between the image obtaining end 103 and the control end 101 may be related to the network speed between the image obtaining end 103 and the control end 101. For example, if the image information is 5MB and the data transmission speed between the image acquisition terminal 103 and the control terminal 101 is 100MB per second, the time length for the image acquisition terminal 103 to transmit the image information to the control terminal 101 may be 5/100-0.05 second-50 milliseconds.

The duration of the stream coding extracted by the control end 101 can be determined according to the processing speed of the control end 101 and the size of the image information, wherein the processing speed of the control end 101 is related to the CPU processing frequency and the current task amount of the control end 101. For example, if the image information is 5MB and the processing speed of the control terminal 101 is 10MB per second, the time length for the control terminal 101 to extract the stream code may be 5/10-0.5-500 ms.

The duration for the control end 101 to transmit the logistics code to the service end 102, that is, the duration for transmitting the logistics code to the service end 102, may be determined according to the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 and the size of the logistics code, and the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 may be related to the network speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102. For example, if the logistics code is 100KB, and the data transmission speed between the control end 101 and the service end 102 is 100MB per second, the time duration for the control end 101 to transmit the logistics code to the service end 102 may be 100/(100 × 1024) ═ 0.00098 second ═ 0.98 ms.

The embodiment of the application provides a logistics object sorting method, which is applied to a logistics object sorting system, wherein the logistics object sorting system comprises a control end, a service end, an image acquisition end and a printing end, and the method comprises the following steps: acquiring image information of a logistics object; extracting a logistics code from the image information and transmitting the logistics code to a server; after the sorting information provided by the server according to the logistics codes is obtained, the corresponding printing module in the printing end is controlled to print sorting labels according to the sorting information. The sorting label can be printed, the sorting label is used for assisting sorting personnel in sorting logistics objects, the cost of the adopted equipment including the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end is low, and the requirements of the image acquisition end, the service end and the control end on a field are also low.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments are not limited by the order of acts described, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently depending on the embodiments. Further, those skilled in the art will also appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required of the embodiments of the application.

The present application further provides a non-transitory, readable storage medium, where one or more modules (programs) are stored, and when the one or more modules are applied to a device, the device may execute instructions (instructions) of method steps in this application.

Embodiments of the present application provide one or more machine-readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause an electronic device to perform the methods as described in one or more of the above embodiments. In the embodiment of the present application, the electronic device includes various types of devices such as a terminal device and a server (cluster).

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented as an apparatus, which may include electronic devices such as a terminal device, a server (cluster), etc., using any suitable hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof, to perform a desired configuration. Fig. 14 schematically illustrates an example apparatus 300 that may be used to implement various embodiments described herein.

For one embodiment, fig. 14 illustrates an exemplary apparatus 300 having one or more processors 302, a control module (chipset) 304 coupled to at least one of the processor(s) 302, a memory 306 coupled to the control module 304, a non-volatile memory (NVM)/storage 308 coupled to the control module 304, one or more input/output devices 310 coupled to the control module 304, and a network interface 312 coupled to the control module 304.

The processor 302 may include one or more single-core or multi-core processors, and the processor 302 may include any combination of general-purpose or special-purpose processors (e.g., graphics processors, application processors, baseband processors, etc.). In some embodiments, the apparatus 300 can be used as a terminal device, a server (cluster), or the like in this embodiment.

In some embodiments, the apparatus 300 may include one or more computer-readable media (e.g., the memory 306 or the NVM/storage 308) having instructions 314 and one or more processors 302 in combination with the one or more computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions 314 to implement modules to perform the actions described in this disclosure.

For one embodiment, control module 304 may include any suitable interface controllers to provide any suitable interface to at least one of the processor(s) 302 and/or any suitable device or component in communication with control module 304.

Control module 304 may include a memory controller module to provide an interface to memory 306. The memory controller module may be a hardware module, a software module, and/or a firmware module.

Memory 306 may be used, for example, to load and store data and/or instructions 314 for device 300. For one embodiment, memory 306 may comprise any suitable volatile memory, such as suitable DRAM. In some embodiments, the memory 306 may comprise a double data rate type four synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR4 SDRAM).

For one embodiment, control module 304 may include one or more input/output controllers to provide an interface to NVM/storage 308 and input/output device(s) 310.

For example, NVM/storage 308 may be used to store data and/or instructions 314. NVM/storage 308 may include any suitable non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) and/or may include any suitable non-volatile storage device(s) (e.g., one or more Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), one or more Compact Disc (CD) drives, and/or one or more Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) drives).

NVM/storage 308 may include storage resources that are physically part of the device on which apparatus 300 is installed, or it may be accessible by the device and may not necessarily be part of the device. For example, NVM/storage 308 may be accessible over a network via input/output device(s) 310.

Input/output device(s) 310 may provide an interface for apparatus 300 to communicate with any other suitable device, input/output devices 310 may include communication components, audio components, sensor components, and so forth. The network interface 312 may provide an interface for the device 300 to communicate over one or more networks, and the device 300 may wirelessly communicate with one or more components of a wireless network according to any of one or more wireless network standards and/or protocols, such as access to a communication standard-based wireless network, such as WiFi, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, etc., or a combination thereof.

For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 302 may be packaged together with logic for one or more controller(s) (e.g., memory controller module) of the control module 304. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 302 may be packaged together with logic for one or more controller(s) of the control module 304 to form a System In Package (SiP). For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 302 may be integrated on the same die with logic for one or more controller(s) of the control module 304. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 302 may be integrated on the same die with logic of one or more controllers of the control module 304 to form a system on a chip (SoC).

In various embodiments, the apparatus 300 may be, but is not limited to: a server, a desktop computing device, or a mobile computing device (e.g., a laptop computing device, a handheld computing device, a tablet, a netbook, etc.), among other terminal devices. In various embodiments, the apparatus 300 may have more or fewer components and/or different architectures. For example, in some embodiments, device 300 includes one or more cameras, a keyboard, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen (including a touch screen display), a non-volatile memory port, multiple antennas, a graphics chip, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), and speakers.

The detection device can adopt a main control chip as a processor or a control module, sensor data, position information and the like are stored in a memory or an NVM/storage device, a sensor group can be used as an input/output device, and a communication interface can comprise a network interface.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

Embodiments of the present application are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present application have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including the preferred embodiment and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the true scope of the embodiments of the application.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The above detailed description is provided for a method and apparatus for sorting logistics objects, an electronic device and a storage medium, and specific examples are applied herein to illustrate the principles and embodiments of the present application, and the description of the above embodiments is only used to help understand the method and core ideas of the present application; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present application, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present application.

Claims

1. A logistics object sorting system comprises a control end, a service end, an image acquisition end and a printing end:

the control end is in signal connection with the server end, the image acquisition end and the printing end, and the printing end comprises a plurality of printing modules;

the image acquisition end acquires image information of the logistics object and transmits the image information to the control end;

the control end extracts the logistics codes from the image information and transmits the logistics codes to the server end, and the server end provides sorting information corresponding to the logistics objects according to the logistics codes and transmits the sorting information to the control end;

and after receiving the sorting information of the server, the control end controls the corresponding printing module to print the sorting label according to the sorting information.

2. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein each of the printing modules is a stand-alone printer.

3. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the printing outlets of the plurality of printing modules of the printing end are arranged adjacently or share the same printing outlet.

4. The logistics object sorting system of claim 3, wherein each of the printing modules comprises a paper feeding roll, a paper discharging roll and a guide rod, wherein a plurality of the paper feeding rolls are arranged side by side, a plurality of the paper discharging rolls are arranged side by side, and a plurality of the printing outlets are arranged side by side; the guide bar of a printing module located at the edge of the plurality of printing modules is longer than the guide bar of a printing module located in the middle.

5. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the control end determines the printing time of the printer according to the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area and the printing speed of the printing module.

6. The logistics object sorting system of claim 5, further comprising a logistics object conveying device for conveying logistics objects.

7. The logistics object sorting system of claim 6, wherein after the control end extracts the logistics code, the control end determines the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area according to the shooting time of the image acquisition end, the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the designated area, and the speed of the logistics object conveying device.

8. The logistics object sorting system of claim 5, wherein after the control end extracts the logistics code, the control end determines the printing time of the printer according to the time when the logistics object arrives at the designated area, the printing speed of the printing module and a duration overhead, wherein the duration overhead comprises at least one of the following: the system comprises a time length for transmitting image information to a control end by the image acquisition end, a time length for extracting logistics codes by the control end, a time length for transmitting the logistics codes to a service end by the control end, a time length for providing sorting information corresponding to logistics objects according to the logistics codes by the service end, and a time length for transmitting the sorting information to the control end by the service end.

9. The logistics object sorting system of claim 6, wherein the logistics object conveyance device is a belt conveyance system.

10. The system for sorting objects in logistics according to claim 9, wherein the conveying device of objects in logistics further comprises a speed regulating system, wherein the speed regulating system is connected to the control end through signals, and conveys the objects in logistics according to the speed information after receiving the speed information conveyed by the speed regulating system.

11. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the printing module in the printing end further comprises a label peeling device.

12. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, further comprising a designated area, wherein the printing module prints out a sorting label within a designated threshold from the time the logistics object reaches the designated area.

13. The system for sorting objects in logistics according to claim 1, further comprising an ethernet switch and a serial server, wherein the ethernet switch is used for connecting the control terminal and the image acquisition terminal, and the ethernet switch and the serial server are used for connecting the control terminal and the printing terminal.

14. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the logistics code is a code of logistics objects, the code comprising at least one of: characters, bar codes, and two-dimensional codes.

15. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, further comprising a support for erecting the image acquisition end above the logistics object.

16. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the image acquisition end is an industrial camera.

17. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the logistics objects are stored with logistics code and sorting information of the logistics objects in the server.

18. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the logistics objects comprise sorting labels, and the sorting labels comprise sorting information and at least part of logistics codes.

19. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the printing module is provided with an indicator light for giving out a prompt.

20. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein different printing papers are respectively placed on the printing modules in the printing end, and the different printing papers comprise at least one of the following: printing paper of different colors, printing paper of different patterns, printing paper of different shapes, and printing paper of different sizes.

21. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the control end is an industrial control computer.

22. The logistics object sorting system of claim 1, wherein the control end is capable of controlling the plurality of printing modules to simultaneously print the sorting labels.

23. A logistics object sorting method is applied to a logistics object sorting system, the logistics object sorting system comprises a control end, a service end, an image acquisition end and a printing end, and the method comprises the following steps:

acquiring image information of a logistics object;

extracting a logistics code from the image information and transmitting the logistics code to a server;

after the sorting information provided by the server according to the logistics codes is obtained, the corresponding printing module in the printing end is controlled to print sorting labels according to the sorting information.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein in the step of controlling the corresponding printing module in the printing end to print the sorting label according to the sorting information after acquiring the sorting information provided by the server end according to the logistics code, the control end is configured to determine the printing time of the printing module according to the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area and the printing speed of the printing module, and control the printing module corresponding to the printing end to print at the printing time.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein in the step of controlling the corresponding printing module in the printing end to print the sorting label according to the sorting information after acquiring the sorting information provided by the server end according to the logistics code, after the control end extracts the logistics code, the control end determines the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area according to the shooting time of the image acquisition end, the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the designated area, and the speed of the logistics object conveying device.

26. The method according to claim 23, wherein in the step of controlling the corresponding printing module in the printing end to print the sorting label according to the sorting information after acquiring the sorting information provided by the service end according to the logistics code, after the control end extracts the logistics code, the control end determines the time when the logistics object reaches the designated area according to the shooting time of the image acquisition end, the time when the logistics code is extracted by the control end, the time when the service end transmits the sorting information, the distance between the shooting position of the image information and the designated area, and the speed of the logistics object transmission device.

27. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having executable code stored thereon that, when executed, causes the processor to perform the method of any of claims 23-26.

28. One or more machine-readable media having executable code stored thereon that, when executed, causes a processor to perform the method of any of claims 23-26.