EP0928641A1 - Vorrichtung zur Unterstützung der Handsortierung von Postartikeln - Google Patents

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EP0928641A1
EP0928641A1 EP99400037A EP99400037A EP0928641A1 EP 0928641 A1 EP0928641 A1 EP 0928641A1 EP 99400037 A EP99400037 A EP 99400037A EP 99400037 A EP99400037 A EP 99400037A EP 0928641 A1 EP0928641 A1 EP 0928641A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C7/00—Sorting by hand only e.g. of mail
    • B07C7/005—Computer assisted manual sorting, e.g. for mail
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C7/00—Sorting by hand only e.g. of mail
    • B07C7/04—Apparatus or accessories for hand picking

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  • the present invention relates exclusively to the field of mail processing and it relates more particularly to a device assistance with manual sorting of mail items by an operator in an area of business specially assigned to the processing of mail.
  • Mail sorting in commercial or industrial companies or in public administration today is a process essentially manual.
  • the operator responsible for this task takes the mail items one by one, marks the mention of the person or department to which it is addressed and, possibly after opening this mail item, drop it in the locker corresponding to this person or service.
  • It is clear that such entirely manual process is long and suffers from very low productivity. The lower the number of traps, the lower the number. important, that the company services are constantly reorganizing and that the personnel assigned to this task are so on a regular basis or only temporary (for example during a period of leave where a colleague or trainee can replace the permanent operator).
  • the same manual sorting method can be used for mail in leaving the company for the postal administration, in order to to meet the requirements of this administration.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks by offering a device that allows a very significant gain in productivity with a manual sorting rate multiplied by at least a factor of three, which allows a significant reduction in error rates and which especially adaptable to sorting devices currently in operation in businesses.
  • the device according to the invention must be of a very easy to operate, can be implemented by one or more operators and present a reasonable cost.
  • the device should ability to quickly and easily adapt to different sorting methods currently used in companies.
  • the device according to the invention can be set up without any constraint in all mail services of companies or administrations. It is simply enough to have the means of indication (by the removable fixing means) on the lockers or existing storage elements, without requiring intervention of a technician for the realization of any wiring and without the need to replace these items.
  • the device can have only one terminal capable of scanning mail items of all formats and A4 documents or be organized around a personal computer with a flatbed scanner for scanning A4 documents, the terminal scanning only mail items. In one or the other case, recognition can relate to OCR type characters or manuscripts.
  • the invention thus makes it possible to omit the pre-sorting step and possibly refine the sorting by limiting the subsequent steps.
  • the contactless transmission means comprise optoelectronic link means, for example infrared, or radio link means.
  • the indication means include means audible or visual self-powered indication and presenting in the form of at least one indicator light or a light panel allowing the display of a number for batch processing of articles of mail.
  • the light panel is arranged so that it can display successively several numbers, each corresponding to a position determined from a mail item in the batch processed.
  • the power supply of said means of indication can be made by photovoltaic cells, inductive elements or more simply by a battery preferably having a duration of important operation, for example a lithium battery.
  • the means of removable fixing advantageously comprise a clip-like element or clips.
  • a manual sorting assistance device is intended to be implemented in mail services companies or administrations.
  • a or several operators 1 take from a box or mail bag 2 from the postal administration, the various articles of mail 3 to be sorted.
  • a first sorting can be carried out for dismiss confidential, strictly personal, urgent or open items immediately to be delivered to their recipient, then the operators read one by one the addresses on the remaining mail items (or possibly those of documents extracted from these articles) to identify the recipients and, these being recognized, they place the articles of mail (or the documents previously extracted from these articles for identification) in the lockers (for example locker 4A) of a storage 4 (single-sided in the example illustrated) corresponding to each of these recipients.
  • the mail articles are read by an optical reading terminal 5 comprising input means for document 5A, optoelectronic reading and recognition means 50 and means for output of recognized documents 5B.
  • Ways document entry may include a storage bin for allow processing of a stack of mail items, preferably different formats, for example the formats known in Europe as references C4 (229 * 324 mm), C5 (162 * 229 mm), C6 (114 * 162 mm) or C6 / 5 (114 * 229 mm) and in the USA under references # 13 (254 * 330 mm), # 10 (105 * 241 mm), # 9 (98 * 225 mm), # 6 1 ⁇ 2 (152 * 229 mm) and "Check" (92 * 219 mm).
  • Reading and recognition means include conventionally material means of digitization and means software.
  • the material means are arranged in such a way that they allow this scanning whatever the layout of the mail item is to say that the envelope is presented horizontally or vertically, on either side.
  • Software means conventionally include a OCR type character recognition software (per unit character or by whole word). According to a preferred characteristic of the invention, this software also has an additional recognition function of handwritten characters.
  • Recognition can relate to all predetermined types of data likely to provide direct or indirect information on the recipient which can be a specifically named person or a service, a department or even a company office or administration to which is addressed this mail item.
  • This data in addition to the recipient proper (name or department) may relate to others information like: the mention of the sender present in the zone reserved for this purpose on the mail item or appearing in the imprint logo (slogan), serial number or franking machine authentication (in the case of a fingerprint made by such a machine), or a particular configuration of the article of mail (envelope form, stamp form, font type, positions of the writing or printing areas of the postal imprint, etc.).
  • these may be specific pre-printed codes on these envelopes and in the case of internal letters, employee identification number.
  • the data analyzed are those relating to recipient's territorial area, postal code or the nature of this recipient to choose a desired postage method (normal, slow, etc.).
  • each locker is provided with means indication (for example 40A) mounted on this piece of furniture by means of removable fasteners (e.g. 400A) and can be operated from the optical reading terminal 5.
  • means of indication can be of the type visual (for example one or more light-emitting diodes or a liquid crystal panel) or sound panel (a buzzer) and the means fixing may include a self-adhesive part which must be able to be removed several times (for example a peelable part or a fixation known as VELCRO) or they can be simply formed of a clamp or a clip, as illustrated in FIG. 1 by the reference 400R.
  • the indication means are of the self-powered type by example by lithium battery (this type of battery having a lifetime significant in the order of three to five years) or preferably from means of autonomous supply known per se as cells photovoltaic or inductive elements (in the latter two cases no maintenance is then necessary anymore).
  • the indication means may be advisable to adopt high-power discharge lamps ensuring sufficient lighting in the sorting room.
  • the reception of waves emitted by the elements inductive can be improved by installing the emission system of these waves in the ceiling of the sorting room.
  • the actuation of the indication means 40 is carried out remotely from the optical reading terminal 5 which also performs this function activation through contactless transmission means for example by optoelectronic link means, for example at infrared, or even by radio link means.
  • a special locker is provided for receiving all mail items that could not be identified optically.
  • This locker is advantageously a simple storage basket 6 which can also be provided with indication means 6A (and therefore also having a unique identification number) and placed for example on a table work 7 receiving the optical reading terminal 5.
  • indication means 6A and therefore also having a unique identification number
  • table work 7 receiving the optical reading terminal 5.
  • the terminal 5 is further provided with a device 8 for optical reading and recognition of A4 format documents (like flatbed scanner) to ensure scanning of all or part of the cover page of the document included in the mail item not initially recognized and thus allow after analysis of its content, determination of the recipient of this mail.
  • This analysis can relate to the name or logo of the sender but also to keywords of the documents such as: complaint, order, check, invoice, etc. which enable failing to recognize a recipient name to identify at least a recipient service.
  • this device for reading and recognition includes common recognition software means means of recognition of mail items 50.
  • this embodiment also has the advantage of also allow direct sorting of internal mail envelopes (perforated envelopes with boxes essentially in A4 format).
  • the terminal 5 further includes voice recognition means which allow the operator, using a microphone 9, to read aloud on the envelope or on the document, directly the recipient of the mail item or any other information indirectly allowing its identification and thus to cause a display of the corresponding locker indicator (for example example 40A).
  • voice recognition means which allow the operator, using a microphone 9, to read aloud on the envelope or on the document, directly the recipient of the mail item or any other information indirectly allowing its identification and thus to cause a display of the corresponding locker indicator (for example example 40A).
  • the command and control of the various elements constituting the terminal 5 are performed using a keyboard 10 and a display screen 11 incorporated into this terminal.
  • This command and control can also be carried out remotely by a personal type computer 12 connected to the terminal 5 possibly fitted with a printer (not shown).
  • the optical reader 8 of A4 document can also be placed independently of terminal 5 and linked directly to the computer 12.
  • the manual sorting assistance device can also include a module 13 for opening mail items placed at the outlet of the optical reading terminal to ensure selective opening of these mail items based on information recognized by the terminal optical reading 5. For example, mail items marked “Confidential”, “strictly personal” or addressed to individuals determined (president, general managers, secretary general, etc.) should not cause an activation of this module.
  • FIGs 2a and 2b illustrate two typical examples of organization possible for sorting mail using the device assistance according to the invention in a room reserved for this purpose within a company.
  • mail sorting is provided by four people 1, by means of two terminals 5 and 5 ', each person responsible for monitoring, for example, 20 traps (the traps being arranged at two storage units 4 with two faces).
  • each locker is provided with a specific indicator which is on when terminal 5 or 5 'delivers a mail item to be deposited in the corresponding locker (this ignition causing displacement operator in charge of this locker).
  • the storage cabinet 4 is an important piece of furniture, for example 18 * 4 boxes, which is served by three operators.
  • Each locker has a special indicator composed of three colored indicator lights different (for example blue, yellow, red), each indicator corresponding to one of the three operators.
  • this indicator also includes a illuminated liquid crystal panel which allows the display of numbers of two digits (00 to 99), which authorizes batch processing.
  • the terminal 5 is arranged to deliver mail items in batches successive of predetermined size (for example of twenty articles). So the terminal can read and recognize articles from mail one by one then once the batch has been processed, cause one of the indicators (thus designating a particular operator) and the display on the light panel for exit positions in the batch (e.g. 1 for the above mail item to 20 for the bottom item), removing the batch terminal processed by the operator concerned causing batch processing next for another operator.
  • the light panel When multiple mail items from one given lot must be deposited in the same locker, it can be expected that the light panel displays the different positions successively.
  • the number of mail items which can compose a batch is not not important (in practice equal to or less than 10), the light panel can be replaced by a set of light emitting diodes.
  • optical reading terminal and locker indication means are illustrated schematically Figures 3 and 4 respectively.
  • the terminal is organized around the means 50 for reading and recognition of the destination of mail items. This recognition is performed against a set of data prerecorded in a memory 52 of this terminal to which are compared by processing means 54 the information recognized on the article of mail (e.g. recipient, department, department, office, sender, serial number, etc.).
  • Means 56 for transmitting a code identification box corresponding to the identified recipient are also designed to ensure remote display of the means of indicating the locker selected.
  • means 58 for opening the articles are available from the terminal and are ordered from such that they are inhibited when the item identification code of corresponding mail is that of one of the predetermined recipients for which such opening is not authorized.
  • the indication means 40 include reception means 42 the locker identification code issued by terminal 5, the nature of which depends obviously the type of transmission used (optical, for example infrared, or radioelectric), means 44 for comparing the received code with a specific internal code 45 stored in the resources indication and means 46 for visual or audible display of the result of this comparison.
  • the locker identification code can be present at the level of the means of indication in a memory or be available in wired form. More simply, in order to allow frequent configuration changes, this code can also be issued by a coding wheel.
  • supply means 48 provide a autonomous power supply for all the means circuits of indication.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a simplified organization of the data memory 52.
  • This memory contains the names of the different people likely to be mail recipients in the company. AT each of these names is associated with a service or department title to which this person is attached, an identification code or number locker, and possibly specific information specifying whether the courier correspondent is confidential or personal and therefore cannot be opened (confid) or if the person in question is responsible for a given service of receive non-nominative mail.
  • this memory 52 then includes an area associated with each service and in which are mentioned one or more data likely to be recognized as related to this service.
  • the content of the memory must be able to be modified by the operator to add or remove new mail recipients, complete the identifiable data or to modify the assignments lockers.
  • the terminal 5 or the computer 12 will advantageously be provided a user-friendly human-machine interface from which the sorting room configuration can be easily defined and modified (number of operators, lockers, number of items per batch, etc.) and from from which the aforementioned memory modifications can be executed.
  • a first mail item into the terminal (he can also place a stack of items at the terminal entrance).
  • This article is then transported to the optical reading means of this terminal (conventionally a camera equipped with a CCD sensor for example) which proceeds in a step 102 when digitized.
  • the optical reading means of this terminal conventionally a camera equipped with a CCD sensor for example
  • this character recognition can also be performed following a voice reading of the relevant data collected on the mail item (step 106).
  • the three steps 100, 102, 106 can of course apply in the same way to the document itself whose reading can be done optically (by device 8) or by voice.
  • the identification carried out either the code is issued identification of the recognized recipient's locker (step 108), i.e. the transmission of the identification code of the locker of the responsible recipient to within a service or department for receiving mail, when the name of the recipient is not mentioned directly (step 110), or finally the transmission of the locker identification code corresponding to manual sorting, when it is not possible to assign a recipient to this mail item (step 112).
  • the identification code is issued to the attention of all lockers that receive it at the same time in a step 114.
  • each means of indicating a locker then performs a comparison of this code with its own internal identification code. Yes this comparison is positive (answer yes to the test in step 118), the means of indication concerned activates its display means in an ultimate step 120, the means for indicating the other lockers obviously remaining inactive.
  • the display time can be predetermined (discharge time a capacitor for example) or depend on the sorting rate.
  • the present invention cannot be limited to only embodiments described above.
  • the present invention allows to adapt very easily to different sorting methods existing, whether or not with mail pre-sorting and whether associated with one or more storage units. So, the pre-sorting of the folds confidential currently done most often manually for avoid any unwanted opening can be deleted with this invention and integrated into the current sorting. Indeed, recognition for example the mention "confidential" or “strictly personal” will inhibit the setting in operation of the means for opening mail items.

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