EP2355939A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur identifizierung von gegenständen - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zur identifizierung von gegenständenInfo
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- EP2355939A1 EP2355939A1 EP09748709A EP09748709A EP2355939A1 EP 2355939 A1 EP2355939 A1 EP 2355939A1 EP 09748709 A EP09748709 A EP 09748709A EP 09748709 A EP09748709 A EP 09748709A EP 2355939 A1 EP2355939 A1 EP 2355939A1
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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
- B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
- B07C5/34—Sorting according to other particular properties
- B07C5/3404—Sorting according to other particular properties according to properties of containers or receptacles, e.g. rigidity, leaks, fill-level
- B07C5/3408—Sorting according to other particular properties according to properties of containers or receptacles, e.g. rigidity, leaks, fill-level for bottles, jars or other glassware
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- the invention relates to a method and a device for identifying objects, in particular of machines, consumables and parts thereof, according to which a surface of the object in question is scanned entirely or at least in the region of a partial surface and from this at least one result is derived.
- Identification methods of the design described above are known from practice and are otherwise described in DE 102 02 517 A1.
- This is a machine for testing the wall of a bottle, which has a surface decoration of lines.
- a two-dimensional camera is realized, which represents an image as a pixel field.
- the invention is based on the technical problem of further developing such a method for identifying objects so that the complexity of the plant and process is reduced.
- a generic method for the identification of objects in the invention is characterized in that at least a partial surface of the natural Surface is converted into characteristic digital values, which are summarized into at least one key.
- the surface of the object to be examined which has been manipulated in any manner, is not scanned, but the object as such is scanned with its natural surface, that is to say from the actual production process, whereby this surface can be both processed and unprocessed.
- the surface is not equipped with, for example, decoration or other inhomogeneities or processed in a special way for the preparation of the intended scanning, but is scanned as it appears after the production process of the object in question.
- an application of paint may be present.
- the surface for their identification does not undergo additional artificial processing preparatory to scanning, but is examined and scanned as it appears after the article has been manufactured.
- This natural surface may thus be, for example, the surface of a casting, a machined surface, a painted or chromed surface, or even a blasted surface. This natural surface is now converted into one or more characteristic digital values.
- this is to be understood as meaning that properties of the natural surface are scanned and determined in order to derive thereon measured values which in turn correspond to digital values characteristic of the surface. These one or more digital values are then combined to form a key which is unique to the relevant surface of the object and, as it were, constitutes a "fingerprint" of the surface and thus uniquely characterizes the object as such.
- the properties of the surface of the object to be examined which are scanned in this way may be, for example, its microstructure, its roughness or roughness parameters, the color or color composition, the reflection behavior, the transparency of the article, its strength, etc.
- electrical properties can also be evaluated, such as the ohmic or capacitive resistance of the surface or at least one partial surface.
- the determination of chemical properties of the surface and its characterization by this is conceivable.
- the adsorption capacity or else the oxidation behavior can be evaluated and experienced for the individualizing identification in the sense of the key.
- the invention is always based on the basic principle and the recognition that the surfaces of basically identical objects can be clearly distinguished from one another with sufficiently precise consideration. This is partly true for the macroscopic area, but especially for considerations and investigations in the microscopic area. It follows that ultimately there are no two objects that have an identical surface under the conditions described above. Consequently, the surface or at least a partial surface of the surface of the object in question can be used for its unambiguous identification by means of the key derived from the one or more characteristic digital values.
- the key summarizes the one or more digital values that correspond to readings of the selected surface or sub-surface, considering one (or more) previously selected surface property (s). If, for example, the roughness of the surface of the object to be examined is selected as a characteristic, this means that, in the example, the roughness distribution of the object to be examined is examined and evaluated on a previously selected and delimited partial surface. This roughness distribution is now converted into a key.
- the key represents an image of the selected and examined partial surface or of the entire surface of the article in such a way that in the example case the frequency of the individual roughness values is reproduced at the corresponding location.
- a subarea that corresponds to a unique key For example, in the roughness measurement, partial areas of approximately 1 cm 2 or more have proven to be favorable.
- the derived key is now identified as a reference key and stored for example in an external database. As a result, the examined subject undergoes a clear identification.
- the relevant key can also be attached to the identified object.
- the invention recommends mapping the reference key into a label, a marker, etc., which is attached to the article. For example, if the item being examined is a consumable item, the reference key can be deposited directly in an already applied label or the most commonly applied barcode.
- the object as such may undergo identification as well as an associated closure. That is, the relationship of object and closure or packaging and closure can be with the help of the associated key for one hand Determine the object or its packaging and on the other hand its closure and deposit in the one or more keys. In most cases, one will work in such a case with a key for the consumer goods concerned, which on the one hand includes the key for the closure and on the other hand, the key for the rest of the object or the container.
- closure and container are connected to an inseparable unit with each other and can be immediately determined whether, for example, the closure has been replaced or not.
- This measure also helps to be able to prove the originality of the examined item or consumable.
- the manufacturer of the consumer goods or generally of the object to be examined is always able to prove with the help of either on the object and / or additionally stored reference key as a quasi original document the unique origin of the object. It is understood that the key or reference key can be flanked with additional data, such as the date of manufacture, the date of the test, the batch number, etc.
- the key and the derived reference key provide comprehensive information about the thus identified product in terms of its individual (surface) properties, possibly its date of manufacture, the place of manufacture, the manufacturer, possibly the materials used etc.
- the key or reference key can be ascertained or verified or falsified by re-analyzing the container or the bottle or, in general, the object to be examined.
- Such a procedure is of particular importance not only in the case of, for example, consumer goods or, in general, consumer goods and their identification as well as for the proof of originality. But hereby also machines and their parts (spare parts, wear parts etc.) can be checked for originality and origin. Depending on whether the scanning of the surface with the test code derived from it leads to a correspondence with the reference key or not, a clear statement can be made as to whether, for example, the replacement part or wearing part is an original part of the manufacturer or a replica.
- the procedure will be such that the degree of correspondence between the test key and the reference key must exceed a predetermined value.
- a predetermined value for example, surface changes caused by use, soiling etc. can be taken into account. That is, as soon as the match between the check key and the reference key is more than 80% or 90%, for example, this will be interpreted and used as proof of originality. That is, there is no 100% agreement between the reference key and the check key required, but only a predetermined value of the match must be exceeded in order to derive a relatively high probability of the match between the items to be compared or keys ,
- Hamming distance the number of bits in which the two keys to be compared may (still) differ.
- the correspondence of the character strings stored in the keys is checked.
- the Key compared bit by bit The number of digits that differ is counted and evaluated as a Hamming distance.
- Scanning unit designed as a tactile device and works, for example, as a stylus device.
- Such a stylus device regularly has a stylus tip of, for example, a diamond, which is moved at a constant speed over the surface of the object to be detected.
- An individual measuring profile or roughness profile of the scanned surface can now be derived from the vertical positional shift of the probe tip that inevitably results from surface roughness.
- the movements of the stylus tip are detected, for example, via an inductive displacement measuring system.
- the scanning of the surface can be done without contact, which is usually carried out with the aid of an optical measuring unit for non-contact measurement of shape and / or shape deviations.
- the invention generally applies the so-called konuskopische holography, which is based on the interference of two coherent light waves.
- a light spot is generated with the aid of a laser beam on the object to be examined, the light is diffused back in all directions.
- a part of the light reflected back from this point of light is detected by an objective unit, superimposed with the emitted light and evaluated with respect to its interference.
- the measuring process is based on the reconstruction of the distance of the light spot from the resulting angle information.
- the scanner unit is associated with a comparator which compares the reference key of the already scanned item with a check key derived from the item currently being examined. Depending on whether the comparator, taking account of permitted deviations or the Hamming distance already mentioned, determines a correspondence between the reference key and the test key or not, the originality of the object being examined can or may not be deduced.
- a method and an apparatus are provided, by means of which the examined objects undergo a one-to-one identification. For this purpose, at least a partial area of the respective surface of the object is scanned and from this characteristic digital values are derived which obtain a summary of at least one key.
- the invention works with the respective natural surface of the article, so are expressly no surface markings, etc. required.
- the key determined, for example, in the manufacture of the object is used as a reference key in a database and / or directly on the
- FIG. 1 shows a device for identifying objects 1.
- the objects to be identified 1 are, in the example and not restrictive, bottles 1.
- the device has a scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5, which is shown in detail in FIG is.
- an identification device 6 for deriving at least one result from the measurements for scanning the surface of the article or the bottle 1 is also realized.
- a comparator 7, which is integrated in the embodiment in the identification device 6 and forms a structural unit 6, 7 together with the identification device 6.
- the working method is as follows. With the help of the scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5 of the object to be identified or the bottle 1 is scanned in the example on its surface. In principle, the entire surface of the article can be scanned. In the example, however, only a partial surface 8 of the article or the bottle 1 is examined. In this case, the partial surface 8 is dimensioned so large that this results in a clear identification of the article or the bottle 1. In the example case, the partial surface 8 may be about 1 cm 2 in size.
- characteristic digital values indicated in FIG. 1 are derived.
- the digital values are combined into one key.
- the scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5 as shown in FIG. 2 is composed of a laser or a laser diode 2 or a comparable coherent light source and a beam splitting optics or a beam splitter 3, an interference device 4 and finally a sensor 5.
- the light emanating from the laser or the laser diode 2 is thrown onto the object to be examined or the bottle 1 and diffused at its surface due to local surface roughness diffusely in virtually all directions.
- the beam splitter 3 and the interference device 4 the light emitted from the laser diode 2 and the reflected light are superimposed and generate an interference pattern on the sensor 5.
- Information about the angle of the light beam reflected from the surface of the bottle 1 can be derived from the interference pattern.
- the angle of the reflected light is a measure of the surface roughness R, as shown schematically in FIG. 3 for individual points x on the face 8.
- the surface of the examined article or the bottle 1 with respect to their roughness or surface roughness R depending on the respective location x are recorded.
- the respective roughness R of the natural surface of the bottle 1 is examined and recorded. This is done in the present case by means of a konuskopischen holography device as a scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5. Further details on the konuskopischen holography are exemplified in the article by K. Buse et al. "3D Imaging: Wave Front Sensing Utilizing a Birefringent Crystal", Physical Review Letters, The American Physical Society, Vol. 85, 16/2000, pp. 3385-3387, to which reference is expressly made.
- the roughness R of the partial surface 8 of the bottle 1 can be determined as a function of the respective spatial position x, as shown in FIG. This can in principle also be touching, that is, with the help of a tactile scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5 are performed, but this is not shown. Either way, the roughness values are converted into digital values with the aid of the identification device 6, which are characteristic of the partial surface 8 or the surface of the bottle 1 as a whole. This is indicated by FIG. 1.
- the identification device 6 connected to the sensor 5 of the scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5 derives a result from the digital values obtained in this way, which is combined into a key.
- the roughness profile of the partial surface 8 of the bottle 1 corresponds to a digital key 9, 10, as shown in FIG. 1, for example, having a size of 256 bits or more.
- This key 9, 10 represents the so-called reference key 9 of the examined article or the bottle 1 in the example case.
- the reference key 9 indicated in FIG. 1 can be stored in a database (not shown).
- the bottle 1 may be equipped with a correspondingly designed label which contains the reference key 9, for example in the form of a barcode.
- the bottle 1 is scanned with respect to its partial surface 8.
- this must be the same subarea 8, as it was previously used for the determination of the reference key 9. That is, for the object to be examined or the bottle 1 in the example case, it is clear which part surface 8 is used for the determination of the key and how large their extent. In other words, the position and extent of the surface 8 must be prescribed.
- the reference key 9 may be flanked by the date of its detection, the date of manufacture of the bottle 1 in the example case, the place of manufacture, its batch number, etc. That is, the reference key 9 includes in the example case not only information about the roughness R within the sub-area 8, but also provides information about the location and extent of the sub-area 8 and the aforementioned data such as year of manufacture, place, etc.
- the partial surface 8 of a bottle 1 to be examined 1 can be scanned with the aid of the scanning unit 2, 3, 4, 5, as was already the case in the determination of the reference key 9.
- This procedure results in a test key 10, which is likewise indicated in FIG. 1.
- the reference key 9 and the check key 10 are now examined in the comparator 7 to see whether there is a match.
- the degree of correspondence between the reference key 9 and the test key 10 is determined taking into account a predetermined value, in the example case with additional consideration of the so-called Hamming distance 11. This is to be understood as the number of bits, which may differ in the example case, as indicated in FIG. 1.
- the two keys on the one hand the check key 10 and on the other hand the reference key 9 are evaluated as coincident.
- the bottle 1 is recognized as an original bottle and performs the originality test to a positive result.
- the reference key 9 is stored in a label 12 on the bottle 1.
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DE102008054109A DE102008054109A1 (de) | 2008-10-31 | 2008-10-31 | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Identifizierung von Gegenständen |
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