EP1916039A1 - Procédé et identification d'objets, et dispositif de comparaison de signature - Google Patents

Procédé et identification d'objets, et dispositif de comparaison de signature Download PDF

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EP1916039A1
EP1916039A1 EP07118687A EP07118687A EP1916039A1 EP 1916039 A1 EP1916039 A1 EP 1916039A1 EP 07118687 A EP07118687 A EP 07118687A EP 07118687 A EP07118687 A EP 07118687A EP 1916039 A1 EP1916039 A1 EP 1916039A1
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Ingolf Rauh
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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
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  • the invention relates to a method for identifying objects, in which a signature is formed for an item being processed on a sorting system, which signature comprises characteristic features of the item, and for identifying the item, the signature with a plurality of in an earlier signature formation during a processing is compared to the first signatures of objects of a search space formed in another sorting system.
  • the invention relates to a signature comparison apparatus for identifying items with a computing unit to form a signature to an item comprising characteristic features of the item, and for identifying the item by comparing the signature with a plurality of first signatures of items formed in an earlier signature formation a search space.
  • the first sorting pass may sort the mail in postal code groups, a second sort pass on individual postal codes, and a third sort pass on street and house numbers.
  • the address of the programs is read by an OCR device (optical character recognition) and linked in a data record in a data memory with an identification code, which is applied in the form of a bar code to the respective program. If the address or parts thereof are not machine-readable, the non-machine-readable characters are read by a processor in a video coding method and the result is also stored in the data record.
  • OCR device optical character recognition
  • the application of the bar code has the disadvantage that the printer and the reader must be present for it, incur the additional costs of consumables and maintenance.
  • the black or fluorescent bar code disturbs the broadcast image, which is not desirable, especially for broadcasts with externally visible images.
  • WO 91/09688 A1 From the WO 91/09688 A1 is a method known, can be dispensed with the identifying bar code.
  • a broadcast picture is taken, from which characteristic features are extracted, from which a first signature characteristic of the broadcast is formed.
  • the program image can be recorded again and the same or a very similar signature can be formed.
  • the data record assigned to the program can be found and associated address information can be called up for transmission.
  • the problem here is the large, allVaccinsignaturen comprehensive search space.
  • the signature must be compared with all possible first signatures, which is the case for daily shipments of in Germany 70,000,000 Consignments or corresponding consignment quantities in other countries is technically not to accomplish in the short processing time, which is available when processing the shipment in the sorting system.
  • the EP 1 222 037 B1 to restrict the search space by including in the mailing-related data records an identification number of the sorting bin or of the mailing container into which the mail item is sorted. During the following sorting run, this number is entered and the signatures are searched with first signatures in a search space that includes all first signatures of the corresponding mailing container.
  • the disadvantage here is that it must be ensured organizationally that a consignment container after the first sorting run no further transmission is supplied.
  • this method can be carried out practically only on large letter sorting because only these have automatic container detection and container transport.
  • the object directed to the method is achieved by a method of the type mentioned above, wherein according to the invention the search space is limited by sorting plant data associated with the object of the sorting plant processing the object for identification, the sorting plant data being obtained from a sorting logic by which a sequence of is defined to be passed through sorting and / or sorting programs.
  • This allows one or more pieces of information to be included in the sorting process Restrict search space without having to detect a bin or keep shipments in a bin unchanged.
  • the restriction of the sorting space makes it easier to find a first signature suitable for a signature that has been formed, and thus an assignment of a data record to a mailing, and thereby accelerates and makes it more reliable.
  • the articles are preferably mail, such as mail, e.g. Letters of all sizes, printed matter, magazines or the like. Also conceivable are printed products, in particular documents, forms, receipts, labels and the like. However, the invention is not limited to the mentioned objects.
  • the sorting plant data may be identification data of a sorting plant, a stationary plant part or a sorting program. Even a time at which the system performs a process is conceivable.
  • the sorting plant data characterize one or more corresponding sorting plants and may be a plant identification code.
  • the sorting plant data can result from a known sorting strategy, which can be a plant-spanning, holistic sorting strategy, which can include, for example, sorting runs of all sorting plants of a sorting center, a geographic region or a country. It is also conceivable to use a sorting strategy based on a single sorting system, which comprises a plurality of search runs.
  • the sorting strategy is preferably a sorting logic stored in a data store or created by a computing unit.
  • An assignment of the sorting plant data to the object can be effected by an assignment of the sorting plant data into a data record which comprises the signature of the object.
  • an assignment in a computing unit for example, the sorting system data of the system that is currently processing an object, to the object or its record.
  • the sorting system data are inserted into a data record of an item, which contains the first signature and a sorting destination of the item includes.
  • the search space restriction records can be searched for matching sorting facility data, and records can be sorted out without matching data.
  • a sequence of several successive sorting runs on one or more sorting installations can be coordinated in such a way that the sequence for achieving a final sorting destination is controlled in a defined manner by a superordinate control unit.
  • a sorting logic can be stored either locally or centrally and describe at which location and with which sorting program a consignment of a sorting run is sorted in a subsequent sorting run.
  • Sorting plant data such as the location or an identification number of a sorting plant and / or a sorting program number, can be processed in this sorting logic.
  • the sort logic may determine which sort result, e.g.
  • the sorting system data for restricting the search space are obtained from a sorting logic, by which a sequence of sorting systems to be run and / or sorting programs is defined.
  • the sorting system data expediently include identification data of the sorting system on which the identification takes place.
  • the search space can be limited to such programs or associated records that are provided for sorting by the system on which the respective identification takes place.
  • the identification data can be data for machine identification or for unambiguous definition of the location, for example the sorting center, of the installation.
  • the Search space are limited to such programs or associated records that are sorted with the same sorting program as the consignment to be identified.
  • the invention can be further developed in that the sorting system data comprise location data and / or identification data of the sorting system on which the first signature formation took place. If, for example, only consignments of a single other sorting center or of a single other sorting system have arrived in a sorting center at a particular time, the search space on consignments originating from this sorting center or this sorting system can be limited.
  • the search space can be restricted. For example, in some sorting centers at certain times only high-priority items, ie items with more postage, and at other times low-priority items are sorted. Other shipment indicators may also be temporally related to certain sorting operations. It is therefore advantageous for the sorting system data to include a point in time at which the sorting system on which the first signature formation took place has performed an action associated with the first signature formation. For example, it is possible to recognize a high-priority item at the franking point and, from this, to deduce an earlier sorting time, and thus limit the search space.
  • the action associated with the initial signature formation may be within a sorting run in which the particular shipment has been sorted and in which its first signature has been formed.
  • the time may be the time of formation of the first signature or a corresponding data record.
  • the sorting system data comprise a time at which the sorting system on which the identification takes place has carried out an action associated with the identification.
  • the sorting system data can be known that only high-priority broadcasts are sorted at the time of identification. Since this information can emerge from the stored data records, for example by the height of the franking is stored, the search space can be limited to these shipments.
  • the sorting system data are obtained from an already identified object, for example from a clearly identified, preceding transmission.
  • the search space may be formed by all the shipments that have been sorted within a certain period of time by the sorting timing of the identified shipment, for example, 10 minutes earlier or later.
  • the search space can be further reduced by excluding a first signature, or a record comprising the initial signature, of an identified item from the search space.
  • the object directed to the signature comparison device is achieved by a signature comparison device of the type mentioned at the beginning, in which according to the invention the arithmetic unit is provided to restrict the search space to sorting system data associated with the article.
  • the search space can be advantageously restricted and an identification made faster and more reliable.
  • the sorting centers 2 are identified by numbers, in Figure 1, the numbers 4, 5, 2 and 7, and each accommodate one or more sorting 4 with a transport line 6, the consignments 8 transported in a plurality of compartments 10.
  • a sorting system 4 is shown, which is assigned the number 47.
  • the sorting machines 4 number 51 and number 21, respectively.
  • the center # 7 accommodates two sorting units 4 bearing the numbers 75 and 76.
  • consignments 8 from the catchment area of the sorting center 2 with the number 4 are presorted on the installation # 47. This is done by means of a sorting program with the ID number 4711, which sorts all items 8 into postal codes of the destination addresses into the compartments 10, one compartment 10 being assigned 100 postal codes each. In subsequent sorting runs on the same installation # 47, which are carried out with the aid of a sorting program with the ID number 4721, the items 8 are sorted by individual postcodes. Subsequently, the items from the compartments 10 are packed in consignment containers and driven by trucks to corresponding other sorting centers 2. In FIG. 1, the transport from the center # 4 to the centers is an example # 2 and # 7 and from center # 5 to center # 7.
  • Each sorting center 2 comprises a signature comparison device 12, which is illustrated in an embedding with further components in FIG.
  • the signature comparison device 12 comprises a computing unit 14 and is connected to a database 16 in which a large number of data records with signatures of broadcasts 8 are stored.
  • a module 18 matches the database content with systems 20 of other sorting centers 2 and uses this known synchronization method.
  • a signature module 22 is connected to a camera 24, which receives transmissions 8 and from a respective transmission image 26 creates a signature from characteristic features of the transmission image 26 according to a predetermined algorithm.
  • the signature is - like a fingerprint - characteristic of this one show 8. Their creation is carried out by known methods.
  • a record module 28 creates for each mailing 8 a record containing the signature and the data of an OCR device 30 which reads the address of the mailing 8, ie the address of the mailpiece 8 or parts thereof.
  • the data record contains a time which is a sorting instant of the mailing 8 and is transmitted by a system clock 32 to the data record module 28.
  • the sorting time may be the time at which the record or the signature was created, or it may be another time at which the mailing 8 was processed for sorting, that is, picked up, transported, sorted or the like.
  • the data record module 28 has an interface to a database 34, in which the sorting logic is stored, after which the mailing 8 is sorted.
  • the sorting logic includes, among other things, the data destination sorting center, destination time and destination sorting program.
  • the data record module 28 connected to a memory 36 in which the country-unique machine identification of the sorting system 2 is stored.
  • a configuration database 38 provides statements on which sorting machine 2 in which time window which sorting program is running nationwide.
  • the configuration database 38 can be updated continuously via the signature module 22.
  • the many logical interfaces shown in FIG. 2 can be physically formed by a single interface. Depending on the size of the search space, not all logical interfaces must be available.
  • the signature comparison device 12 also has an interface 40 to a camera for recording a transmission image 26 in a later sorting pass and an interface to an OCR device 42, by means of which the data of the OCR device 42 can be read.
  • the OCR devices 30, 42 may be formed in a first and second sorting on the same sorting system 4 only by a single device.
  • an interface 44 for inputting the identifier of the sorting program or the sorting system 4 is present.
  • the signature comparison device 12 can still resort to a memory module 46 in which the sorting times, found signatures and identifications of the first or earlier sorting pass of the last N transmissions 8 are stored.
  • FIG. 3 shows a simplified flow chart of a signature formation, in particular a formation of a first signature 50.
  • a first signature 50 is first formed from a mailing image 26 in a first method step 48.
  • the first signature 50 is written in a subsequent method step 52 with the data record module 28 in a data set 54 and this is enriched by data of the OCR device 30, 42, such as postcode, street and house number.
  • the identification of the sorting system 4 and the sorting program is written into the data record 54 and the identification of the sorting program and the sorting system 4 with which the mailing 8 according to the sorting logic in a subsequent Sorting run is sorted.
  • the current system time is written to the record 54.
  • the data record 54 is compared with other signature comparison systems 56 58 and optionally enriched with data from a video coding 60. This completes the creation of the first signature 50 and the data set 54 completed.
  • a new broadcast image 26 is recorded, as shown in FIG 4, and formed from a new signature 62.
  • the address of the item 8 is read, especially the postal code 64 and the delivery point 66, ie the street and the house number.
  • sorting system data 68 of the sorting system 4 which currently processes the program 8, in FIG. 4 the program number 7631 of the currently active sorting program, are available to the signature comparison device 12.
  • the search space 70 includes all records 54 of all shipments 8 that have been sorted in an area in a time period before, for example in a country on a day. As an example, a smaller country with a daily shipment volume of about 2,000,000 shipments can be taken. The search space 70 then includes 2,000,000 records.
  • the search space 70 is indicated by a list of 9 data records 54.
  • the data records 54 each include the first signature 50 of the mailing 8, the postal code 64 and the delivery point 66, as sorting system data 68, the program number of that sorting program, the sorting logic of the mailing 8 in the first sorting of its data, including its address and the sorting program of the first Sorting run, has been assigned.
  • This program number is the number of that sorting program in which the program 8 in later Sorting run must be identified.
  • the program 8 has been identified, its data record 54 could therefore be assigned to it, then the data record 54 can be removed from the search space 70. If there are several programs 8 to a delivery point 66, the signature comparison is also important for this, in order to find the correct record 54 for each of these programs 8 and to be able to remove them from the search space 70.
  • FIG. 5 shows an example in which the OCR device 42 was only able to read the postal code 64. According to experience, this is the case for a further 20% of the shipments, ie 300,000 shipments, so that 95% of the shipments have at least the postal code 64 can be read.
  • three data records 54 are possible, namely the data records 54 # 1 to # 3.
  • the signature comparison device 12 is also aware of the sorting system data 68, in the example the sorting program number # 7631. Only the records 54 # 1 and # 2 carry this sort program number # 7631, so that the search space 70 can be restricted to these two records 54.
  • the sorting program number can also be the number of the sorting program of the first sorting run. During the subsequent sorting cycle, it can be concluded on the basis of the sorting logic which sorting pass was upstream of the current and known sorting pass.
  • the transmission 8 for the data set 54 # 1 has previously been unambiguously recognized.
  • This data record 54 can be removed from the search space 70 for further broadcasts 8.
  • the signature comparison device 12 is aware of the point in time 72 at which this mail item 8 was previously sorted, that is to say in the sorting pass on which the data record 54 was created. Since it can be assumed that adjacent consignments 8 with the same destination are not separated very far apart in further sorting processes, The signature comparison device 12 restricts the search space 70 to all the data records 54 which carry a time 74 in a period of 10 minutes around the time 72, that is to say all data records 54 with the times between 16:10 and 16:30.
  • the search space 70 it is also possible to use a time 72 of the current search. If a property of the consignment 8 emerges from this point in time 72, for example because only consignments 8 from the sorting center 2 # 4 or high-priority consignments 8 are sorted at this point in time 72, the search space 70 can thereby be limited.

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