EP1675692A1 - Procede pour detecter une surface imprimable - Google Patents
Procede pour detecter une surface imprimableInfo
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- EP1675692A1 EP1675692A1 EP04767907A EP04767907A EP1675692A1 EP 1675692 A1 EP1675692 A1 EP 1675692A1 EP 04767907 A EP04767907 A EP 04767907A EP 04767907 A EP04767907 A EP 04767907A EP 1675692 A1 EP1675692 A1 EP 1675692A1
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- Prior art keywords
- postal
- printable
- external surface
- detection
- plastic
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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
- B07C1/00—Measures preceding sorting according to destination
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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
- B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
- B07C3/10—Apparatus characterised by the means used for detection ofthe destination
- B07C3/14—Apparatus characterised by the means used for detection ofthe destination using light-responsive detecting means
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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
- B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
- B07C3/18—Devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for the treatment of objects, in particular postal objects, each having an external surface capable of receiving a label for printing information if this external surface is not a printable surface, in which a physical quantity is measured for each object to detect whether the outer surface of said object is made of plastic.
- Certain postal sorting applications require the printing of bar codes, for example on the exterior surface of postal objects. It turns out that sorting machines sometimes have to deal with plastic envelopes and paper envelopes. The problem then arises of printing the bar code on the outer surface of the plastic envelopes, because on this type of support, the ink takes a long time to dry and the printed bar code is liable to be erased. by friction of the envelopes on the organs of the sorting machine.
- a known technique is detection by reflection which consists in illuminating the external surface of the object and in measuring the light flux which it reflects.
- Plastic material having a higher reflection index than paper detection is simple to implement.
- this technique can prove to be ineffective when plastic objects have a matt or colored exterior surface, that is to say when they have a reflection index close to that of paper.
- Another technique known from patent FR2727330 is based on a pneumatic principle consisting in deforming by suction the object to be checked and in measuring a pressure variation linked to this deformation. Since the external surface of an object in a plastic envelope is generally less rigid than the external surface of an object in a paper envelope, detection is simple to implement.
- paper envelopes may have a surface that is too noisy to receive an impression of a bar code, this bar code then being illegible by machine.
- the object of the invention is to remedy the drawbacks exposed above by proposing a method making it possible to detect all types of postal objects having an exterior non-printable surface, namely an exterior plastic or noisy surface, so as to optimize the process of affixing labels to the envelopes of postal items.
- Another object of the invention is to propose such a simple process to set up in a postal sorting machine.
- the subject of the invention is a method for the treatment of objects each having an external surface capable of receiving a label for printing information if this external surface is not a printable surface, in which one performs for each object a measurement of a physical quantity to detect whether the outer surface of said object is made of plastic, characterized in that it further consists in forming a digital image of said outer surface of the object, in performing a digital image processing to detect whether the outer surface of the object has a noisy background and, on the basis of the result of the two detections, to determine whether the outer surface of said object is a printable surface or a non-printable surface.
- the method according to the invention also has the following particularities: - the plastic surface detection method consists in moving each object in front of a reflection detector comprising one or more calibrated photocells emitting and receiving; - the reflection detector is a brightness detector emitting and receiving radiation in the infrared range; a digital image in multi gray levels of the external surface of the object is used to detect that said external surface is a surface with noisy background; - the results of the two detections are combined by means of a logical OR to determine whether said object has a printable surface or a non-printable surface.
- the invention extends to a sorting machine for postal items which comprises an automatic address recognition module, characterized in that it is suitable for implementing the method as defined above, the detection of background noise being performed in the automatic address recognition module.
- the principle of the invention finds applications outside postal sorting machines when symbols have to be printed on variable supports, going from paper to plastic (the plastic term encompassing any reflecting surface lacking porosity to receive an impression - for example aluminized envelopes or other envelopes used in so-called "express" mail), to then be re-read by machine with very high reliability.
- the invention applies to the printing of information on the outside surface of packages, this information possibly relating to an address or to a particular delivery service. It has been found that the use of infrared radiation for the measurement of gloss brings satisfactory results for the detection of plastic surfaces. Furthermore, it has been found that the use of a digital image in multi-gray levels brings satisfactory results even for moderate contrasts.
- Figure 1 there is shown very generally the two processing steps of the method according to the invention which are implemented here in a machine for processing postal objects, in particular a postal sorting machine symbolized by the rectangle 1, to discriminate postal objects having a printable external surface from postal objects having a non-printable external surface and for which a self-adhesive label must be affixed on their external surface.
- the term “printable exterior surface” means a surface on which symbols (letters, numbers, bar codes, etc.) can be affixed by a printing machine, of the inkjet printer type for example, laser printer or other, and on which it is possible to carry out an automatic recognition of the symbols later by machine.
- the two processing steps of the method according to the invention are, on the one hand, a processing step 2 consisting of carrying out a measurement of a physical quantity to detect whether the outer surface of a postal object is made of a plastic material and , on the other hand, a processing step 3 consisting in performing data processing in the digital image of the exterior surface of said postal object to determine from this digital image whether said exterior surface of the postal object has a noisy background.
- a processing step 2 consisting of carrying out a measurement of a physical quantity to detect whether the outer surface of a postal object is made of a plastic material
- a processing step 3 consisting in performing data processing in the digital image of the exterior surface of said postal object to determine from this digital image whether said exterior surface of the postal object has a noisy background.
- the detection results of these two processing steps 2, 3 are combined at 4 to determine whether the exterior surface of a postal object is a printable or non-printable surface.
- FIG 2 there is shown in more detail an embodiment of the method according to the invention in which it is detected whether a postal object has an outer plastic surface on the basis of a brightness measurement and in which it is detected if this postal object has a noisy exterior surface on the basis of a processing of a digital image in multi gray levels of this exterior surface.
- Postal objects indicated by 5 are moved one by one in a postal sorting machine 1 first in front of a brightness sensor 6 then in front of an image acquisition unit 7, for example a so-called "ccd" camera.
- the method according to the invention can be easily implemented in a conventional postal sorting machine in which the image acquisition unit 7 is part of an automatic address recognition device (by OCR and video coding) further including an image acquisition control computer 8 receiving the images of the image acquisition unit 7 for their transmission to an image processing module.
- the image acquisition unit 7 provides a multi-grayscale digital image 9 of the exterior surface of the postal object 5.
- this digital image 9 is normally sent for processing by OCR in the image processing processor (module) 10 having a large computing power.
- the brightness sensor 6 is composed of one or more calibrated photocells such as the emitting photocell 11 in the infrared range and which scans with an infrared radiation 12 an area 13 of the outer surface of the postal object 5 where must be printed by machine symbols such as a bar code, as well as one or more calibrated receiving photocells such as 14 which measures the intensity reflected at all points in area 13 and which compares the intensity measured at each point with a threshold whose value is adjusted during the calibration of photocells 11 and 14.
- the receiving photocell 14 returns binary information indicative of the intensity level for the point considered for a series of samples placed on a horizontal line crossing the entire object and located halfway up the area 13.
- the brightness sensor 6 transmits, in the form of a series of bits, binary point-by-point brightness information 15 for each point in the area 13 to the image acquisition control computer 8 which integrates the binary point-to-point gloss information 15 over the entire area 13 and determines gloss information 16 indicative either of the fact that the postal item 5 is considered to have an outer surface of plastic material and therefore not printable, or of the fact that the postal object 5 is considered not to have an outer plastic surface.
- This gloss information 16 is then transmitted to the image processing module 10.
- the multi-gray level image 9 supplied at the output of the image acquisition unit 7 is sent to the image processing module 10.
- the image processing module 10 is designed to detect in this multi-gray level image 9, by means of a noisy background detection software algorithm 17 presented in more detail further on, if the background noise 18 in this image exceeds a certain threshold and if this is the case, detecting that the external surface of the object is a non-printable surface.
- a decision function 4 of the image processing module 10 decides from the brightness information 16 and the noisy background information 18 if the postal object 5 is a postal object with non-printable external surface.
- the decision 4 can be made by means of a logical "OR", that is to say that if at least one of the two detection steps 2 and 3 has classified the postal object 5 as having an exterior non-printable surface, the Postal object 5 is labeled.
- the noisy background detection software algorithm 17 is used to assess the homogeneity and the light intensity of the area 13. The background is all the more noisy as the contrast is high and the light intensity low.
- the multi gray level image 9 is sampled by means of pixel segments, which segments are arranged in the four directions, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.
- the homogeneity rate does not allow the distinction between two homogeneous segments of different average intensities. We must therefore weight the measure of homogeneity as a function of the average intensity of the segment.
- the intensity I e co known - b theoretical average arre of a printed barcode and the intensities of a white pixel and a black pixel respectively equal to 255 and 0.
- the noisy background detection 3 on a gray level image 9 is much finer than the noisy background detection on a binary image and is now applicable thanks to the power and speed of calculation of current computers. It makes it possible to detect more moderate contrasts and to access the luminance information of the object, improving the performance of the method and making it possible in particular to detect dark and weakly contrasted surfaces.
- the detection by gloss 2 is a detection by reflection but using radiation in the infrared and thus presenting a better reliability because the difference of reflection on paper and on plastic is greater for these wavelengths than for radiation in the visible. Integration of the method according to the invention in a postal sorting machine
- Electrostatic detection could consist of electrifying the exterior surface of a postal object using an electrifying device and then measuring the residual electrostatic charge to compare it with a reference value.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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FR0350725A FR2861322B1 (fr) | 2003-10-23 | 2003-10-23 | Procede pour detecter une surface imprimable |
PCT/FR2004/050346 WO2005039786A1 (fr) | 2003-10-23 | 2004-07-21 | Procédé pour détecter une surface imprimable |
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EP1675692A1 true EP1675692A1 (fr) | 2006-07-05 |
EP1675692B1 EP1675692B1 (fr) | 2008-01-02 |
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Country Status (10)
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US (1) | US7365331B2 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP1675692B1 (fr) |
AT (1) | ATE382437T1 (fr) |
AU (1) | AU2004283932B2 (fr) |
DE (1) | DE602004011090T2 (fr) |
DK (1) | DK1675692T3 (fr) |
ES (1) | ES2297473T3 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2861322B1 (fr) |
PT (1) | PT1675692E (fr) |
WO (1) | WO2005039786A1 (fr) |
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FR2944718B1 (fr) * | 2009-04-28 | 2011-04-01 | Solystic | Procede pour detecter des envois postaux ouverts tels que magazines sans enveloppe. |
FR2963896B1 (fr) * | 2010-08-19 | 2015-10-16 | Solystic | Machine de tri postal comprenant des moyens de convoyage par pincement, et son procede de mise en œuvre |
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FR2861322B1 (fr) | 2005-12-23 |
AU2004283932B2 (en) | 2008-12-11 |
AU2004283932A1 (en) | 2005-05-06 |
EP1675692B1 (fr) | 2008-01-02 |
PT1675692E (pt) | 2008-03-19 |
ATE382437T1 (de) | 2008-01-15 |
FR2861322A1 (fr) | 2005-04-29 |
US7365331B2 (en) | 2008-04-29 |
ES2297473T3 (es) | 2008-05-01 |
DE602004011090D1 (de) | 2008-02-14 |
DK1675692T3 (da) | 2008-04-28 |
US20050278064A1 (en) | 2005-12-15 |
WO2005039786A1 (fr) | 2005-05-06 |
DE602004011090T2 (de) | 2009-01-02 |
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