GB1270801A - Improvements relating to input apparatus for pattern recognition devices - Google Patents

Improvements relating to input apparatus for pattern recognition devices

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GB1270801A
GB1270801A GB00816/68A GB1081668A GB1270801A GB 1270801 A GB1270801 A GB 1270801A GB 00816/68 A GB00816/68 A GB 00816/68A GB 1081668 A GB1081668 A GB 1081668A GB 1270801 A GB1270801 A GB 1270801A
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pick
tube
tubes
pattern recognition
letter
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GB00816/68A
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Robert Justin Frogatt
William Ellis Ingham
Christopher Archibald Go Lemay
Brian Herbert Lill
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EMI Ltd
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EMI Ltd
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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
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
    • G06V30/00—Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
    • G06V30/10—Character recognition
    • G06V30/14—Image acquisition
    • G06V30/146—Aligning or centring of the image pick-up or image-field
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
    • G06V30/00—Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
    • G06V30/40—Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
    • G06V30/42—Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition based on the type of document
    • G06V30/424—Postal images, e.g. labels or addresses on parcels or postal envelopes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
    • G06V30/00—Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
    • G06V30/10—Character recognition

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AREA)
  • Character Input (AREA)

Abstract

1,270,801. Pattern recognition. EMI Ltd. 21 May, 1969 [6 March, 1968], No. 10816/68. Heading G4R. Input apparatus for a pattern recognition device comprises a first pick-up tube (e.g. vidicon or flying-spot scanner) for scanning a predetermined area, a plurality of further pick-up tubes for scanning different portions of the predetermined area, and means responsive to signals from the first pick-up tube for selecting a region of the predetermined area and for passing to the pattern recognition device signals from the or each of the further pick-up tubes scanning the selected region. As described, the pattern is postal code on a letter to be sorted. At a pre-scan station, a pick-up tube feeding an analyser locates the lower right portion of the address (which presumably includes the postal code) and selects one (or more) of a matrix array of pick-up tubes at a second station to which the letter is conveyed to feed the scanned signal to a pattern recognition device controlling a sorter. The fields-of-view of the pick-up tubes in the matrix may overlap so that the whole postal code occurs within the field of one of them. Embodiments are described using lenses, mirrors, screens and flash-tubes to reduce the number of pick-up tubes for a given number of selectable fields, by energizing a selected flash-tube as well as selecting a pick-up tube, a given tube seeing more than one field of the letter but only one of these being illuminated. In the case of flying-spot scanners, selection of a flash tube is replaced by selection of a photocell.
GB00816/68A 1968-03-06 1968-03-06 Improvements relating to input apparatus for pattern recognition devices Expired GB1270801A (en)

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Cited By (12)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2552903A1 (en) * 1974-11-25 1976-07-08 Green James E METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS UNDER DOUBLE RESOLUTION
DE2722567A1 (en) * 1976-05-19 1977-11-24 Hitachi Ltd POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM
DE2720036A1 (en) * 1976-05-04 1977-11-24 Green James E METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS UNDER DOUBLE RESOLUTION
DE3126730A1 (en) * 1980-07-07 1982-03-04 Recognition Equipment Inc., 75222 Dallas, Tex. READING DEVICE
DE3203897A1 (en) * 1981-11-07 1983-05-19 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Device for detecting and processing characters and/or predetermined optical details
DE3235307A1 (en) * 1981-11-07 1984-03-29 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Method and device for detecting and processing characters and/or predetermined optical details
DE3522707A1 (en) * 1984-06-26 1986-01-02 Canon K.K., Tokio/Tokyo IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE
WO1991009688A1 (en) * 1989-12-23 1991-07-11 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh Process for distributing packets or the like
WO1998032545A1 (en) * 1997-01-23 1998-07-30 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system
US5920056A (en) * 1997-01-23 1999-07-06 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system for assisting in positioning a parcel on a conveyor
US5923017A (en) * 1997-01-23 1999-07-13 United Parcel Service Of America Moving-light indicia reader system
EP3348334A1 (en) * 2017-01-17 2018-07-18 Mail Professionals GmbH Recognition systems for address data on physical mail

Cited By (16)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2552903A1 (en) * 1974-11-25 1976-07-08 Green James E METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS UNDER DOUBLE RESOLUTION
DE2720036A1 (en) * 1976-05-04 1977-11-24 Green James E METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS UNDER DOUBLE RESOLUTION
DE2722567A1 (en) * 1976-05-19 1977-11-24 Hitachi Ltd POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM
DE3126730A1 (en) * 1980-07-07 1982-03-04 Recognition Equipment Inc., 75222 Dallas, Tex. READING DEVICE
DE3203897A1 (en) * 1981-11-07 1983-05-19 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Device for detecting and processing characters and/or predetermined optical details
DE3235307A1 (en) * 1981-11-07 1984-03-29 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Method and device for detecting and processing characters and/or predetermined optical details
DE3522707A1 (en) * 1984-06-26 1986-01-02 Canon K.K., Tokio/Tokyo IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE
US5311999A (en) * 1989-12-23 1994-05-17 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh Method of distributing packages or the like
WO1991009688A1 (en) * 1989-12-23 1991-07-11 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh Process for distributing packets or the like
WO1998032545A1 (en) * 1997-01-23 1998-07-30 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system
US5920056A (en) * 1997-01-23 1999-07-06 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system for assisting in positioning a parcel on a conveyor
US5923017A (en) * 1997-01-23 1999-07-13 United Parcel Service Of America Moving-light indicia reader system
EP1371424A2 (en) * 1997-01-23 2003-12-17 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system
EP1371424A3 (en) * 1997-01-23 2004-04-28 United Parcel Service Of America, Inc. Optically-guided indicia reader system
EP3348334A1 (en) * 2017-01-17 2018-07-18 Mail Professionals GmbH Recognition systems for address data on physical mail
WO2018134216A1 (en) * 2017-01-17 2018-07-26 Mail Professionals Gmbh Recognition system for address data on physical mail

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