JP2506715B2 - Distributing equipment - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention clarifies transfer of a distribution item in a series of processing operations from acceptance of distribution items such as parcels, parcels, and postal items to relay, delivery, and delivery. The present invention relates to a distributed matter processing device for streamlining its management.

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 4 shows a delivery letter making device for a conventional registered mail item, and FIG. 5 shows a flow of delivery work of a registered mail item using this delivery letter making device.

Upon delivery of registered mail, a delivery certificate is created to manage the delivery operation. The delivery certificate is used to receive the receipt stamp of the recipient when the registered mail is delivered. One of them receives a receipt from the recipient as a delivery certificate, and takes it back to the post office for storage. The other is to keep the original delivery certificate, that is, to keep it in the office as a copy, and to check whether it has been delivered or not by checking the delivery certificate which has been delivered and which has been stamped with a receipt stamp. The required contents of this delivery certificate are the address and name of the recipient, the underwriting code,
It is an underwriting number, specially treated characters, date and time of creation, letters of receipt stamp and delivery certificate.

This conventional example will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 2 is a copy table on which a mail piece to be copied is placed, 3 is a display means for displaying information such as numbers and characters necessary for processing the mail piece, and a is a display content of the display means 3. A control unit for setting and monitoring the display contents, b is a copying means including each process of charging, exposure, development, and fixing, and c is a display table and the display surface of the display means 3 is illuminated with the brightness required for copying. Is a light source, and d is an imaging lens.

Next, the operation of the above conventional example will be described. In FIG. 4, the control section a is operated to set necessary information such as a creation date and a serial number on the display means 3. Next, by placing the postal matter 4 on the copy table 2, the postal matter surface 4 is irradiated with light from the light source c and, together with the display surface of the display means 3, an image forming lens d forms an image on the image forming surface e of the copying means b. The copied images are connected, and a hard copy is output through the processes of development and fixing. In this way, even with the conventional mail processing device described above,
It is possible to obtain, as a hard copy, a copy image of a postal matter to which necessary information such as the creation date and serial number is added.

Next, a conventional example of a registered mail delivery processing operation by a processing device having a copying function will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 5, reference numeral 1 denotes a processing device having a copying function, which has two scale optical systems. A copy table 2 and a display unit 3 are provided on the original surface of the copying apparatus 1. The display unit 3 is located behind the copy table 2,
The display content can be changed. Reference numeral 4 denotes a registered mail, which is set on the copy table 2 with the front side up and copied, and two reduced-scale images of the mail surface and the contents of the display unit 3 are created as a delivery certificate 5 and a delivery certificate original mark 6. Is done. On the delivery certificate 5 and the original code 6, the address and name of the recipient, the underwriting station code and the underwriting number, and the specially treated characters as the surface image of the mail, the creation date and time zone, the receipt stamp column, and the delivery. A letter of testimony,
A serial number or the like is described as a display content image of the display unit 3.

Of these, the delivery certificate 5 is affixed to the postal matter and sent for delivery, and the original mark 6 is stored in the station as it is. Delivery certificate 5
When handing over to the recipient 7 of the mail, the person removes it from the mail 4 and receives the receipt stamp 8 and takes it back to the station. Delivery certificate 5 brought back
Is checked against the original mark 6 to confirm the completion of delivery, sorted by date and time, time zone and delivery zone, and stored in the storage rack 9. When there is an inquiry from the user in the event of an accident, etc., the storage shelves 9 sorted and stored by the delivery station.
Then, the delivery certificate 5 for which the receipt mark 8 is stamped is searched for and a reply is given.

For large users such as government offices and large business establishments, the address and the name of the recipient, the date and time of creation, And the like, and the delivery office code and the underwriting number of a plurality of mails are written there to create a delivery receipt.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, since the address writing on the postal matter is scaled down, the characters machine-printed by a printer are too small, and the delivery certificate is difficult to read. is there. In order to solve this, if the scale ratio is reduced, the delivery certificate becomes too large, the running cost increases, and the handling work such as sticking and storing the delivery certificate deteriorates.

Further, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, since the delivery certificate is simply created by copying, it is not possible to input various information described in the postal matter into the device. Therefore, the postal matter concerned and the delivery certificate created from this postal matter cannot be linked in terms of information, and information processing and mechanization of various postal processing operations cannot be achieved.

Further, since the delivery certificate created by the above-mentioned conventional technique does not have any ingenuity such as forming a barcode pattern, it is necessary to mechanize such as mechanically inputting information from the delivery certificate using a barcode reader or the like. I can't.

For this reason, a huge amount of manpower is required to search for an accident inquiry from a user, confirmation of delivery completion, etc., and it is impossible to quickly respond to such an inquiry. The present invention solves such a conventional problem, and the size of the letters on the delivery certificate can be freely changed to a readable size, and the unique information of the mail can be read. Based on this information, the processing status of the postal matter can be automatically searched, and the information input for this purpose is formed as a bar code pattern that links the postal matter with the delivery note. The object of the present invention is to provide a distributed matter processing device that can be carried out in a specific manner.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a means for picking up a surface image of a distribution item having a unique number written in a barcode and printing it out as a digital image, and a barcode reading means. And a bar code pattern generating means are provided, the contents of the bar code read from the surface image of the distribution product are represented again as a bar code pattern, and the bar code pattern is printed on a hard copy of the surface image of the distribution product. .

Action The present invention has the following effects due to the above configuration. That is, since the surface image of the distribution product is captured as a digital image and the scale factor is set by digital processing, the movement of the optical system as in the conventional example becomes unnecessary,
The scale can be selected instantaneously. Also, since the unique number of the distribution item is printed on the hard copy as a bar code pattern, it is possible to mechanically enter information using this bar code pattern after business processing. This has the effect of facilitating registration, deletion, and search in a series of processing operations, and being able to perform prompt and reliable inquiry processing for inquiries from users and the like.

Example A configuration of an example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mechanical system of a mail processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electric system of the same embodiment. In FIG. 1, 2 is a copy table on which the mail to be copied is placed, 30 is an operation unit for setting the information necessary for processing the mail, and monitoring the contents, c is a copy of the copy table 2. A light source 50 for illuminating with a required brightness is an image pickup unit and is located above the copy table 2. Reference numeral 60 is a control unit for controlling the entire apparatus and digitizing and temporarily storing a video signal, and 70 is a hard copy output of a copy image of a mail, necessary delivery management information and a bar code pattern of read bar code information. This is the printing section.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 30 denotes an operation unit including a display, a keyboard and switches. 50 is an imaging unit, which is a CCD
Camera section 51, scale control circuit 52, shading correction circuit
53, a density correction circuit 54, a pseudo halftone binarization reproduction circuit 55, and an image pickup unit control CPU 56 for controlling them. A control unit 60 includes a master CPU 61, an image density measuring circuit 62, an imaging unit,
The output unit interface circuit 63, the image memory 64, the operation unit interface circuit 65, and a bus line 66 connecting them. 70 is a printing unit, which is a laser scanner synchronization control circuit 71,
Test printing circuit 72, laser scanner 73 consisting of polygon motor drive circuit and laser oscillation circuit, various position sensors 7
3, a printing unit drive system control circuit 75, a surface potential sensor 76, a high voltage system control circuit 77 for charging, developing, and transferring, and an output unit control CPU 78 for controlling them. Reference numeral 80 denotes a bar code reading unit, which includes a slave CPU 81 and a bar code position detection circuit 82.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. In the above embodiment, the operation keyboard of the operation unit 30 is operated to set necessary information such as the creation date and reference number on the display. The set necessary information is sent to and stored in the RAM of the master CPU 61 via the operation unit interface circuit 65. Next, by placing the postal matter 4 on the copy table 2, the postal matter 4 is irradiated with light from the light source c, passes through the reflection mirror 51a of the CCD camera unit 51, and the imaging lens 51b causes the image pickup element 51c.
Tie the copied image on top. Next, the image pickup device 51c is controlled by the CPU 56 for controlling the image pickup unit to sequentially convert light energy into electric energy, further convert an analog amount into a digital amount by an A / D conversion circuit, and image the subsequent circuits. Send data. The sent image data is pipeline-processed by a scale control circuit 52, a shading correction circuit 53, a density correction circuit 54, and a pseudo halftone binarization reproduction circuit 55, respectively.
, Scale control shading correction, image density correction,
Pseudo halftone binarization reproduction is performed. Before performing the density correction, the image data after shading correction is sent to the image density measuring circuit 62 of the control unit 60 to determine the density level of the mail object to be imaged, and the density of the image data is based on the density level. Make a correction. The binarized image pickup data is sent to the control unit 60 via the image pickup unit / output unit interface circuit 63 and stored in the image memory 64. A bar code reading unit 80 is connected to the bus line 66 of the control unit, and a bar code position detection / detection circuit 82 cuts out a bar code label from the imaged data. Next, the content of the cut bar code label is decoded, and the read content is reproduced again as a bar code pattern. The slave CPU 81 of the barcode reading unit 80 is used exclusively for processing this barcode. The reproduced bar code pattern is stored in the image memory 64 according to a predetermined format together with the copy image of the mail and the delivery management information.

Next, the contents of the image memory 64 are sent to the printing unit 70 via the imaging unit / output unit interface 63, and under the control of the laser scanner synchronization control circuit 71, output from the laser scanner 73 in the form of modulating the laser light. It In the printing section 70, a hard copy is output by a so-called indirect method electrophotographic process of irradiating the photoconductor with the laser beam and charging, developing, transferring, separating, discharging, cleaning, and fixing.

As a result, it is possible to obtain, as a hard copy, a copy image of the surface of the mail piece to which the necessary information such as the date of creation, the time zone, the sorting section, the serial number, and the unique information of the mail piece based on the barcode pattern are added. By using the barcode pattern of this delivery certificate, delivery completion, carry-back,
Information processing such as transfer and deletion of registration data according to other processing statuses can be mechanically performed.

Further, by adding an information processing function to the present embodiment and reading the barcode pattern of the delivery certificate brought back by the present embodiment, a series of registered mail items such as registration of delivery information, deletion, and creation of delivery certificate. Can perform all processing tasks. Further, the search is facilitated, and it is possible to promptly and surely make an inquiry from a customer or the like.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As apparent from the above-described embodiment, the present invention reads a bar code written on a fluid object together with an image of the fluid object, and therefore enlarges the fluid object without arranging it at a predetermined optical system position. It is possible to detect a portion (barcode area) to be imaged, and it is possible to detect without limitation the fluid material to be processed.

In addition, the barcode displayed on the fluid object is read as it is along with the image of the fluid object, so it can be used for business information input, and changes in the information detection target can be handled by partial software changes. can do.

By reading the barcode written on the fluid object together with the image of the fluid object and printing the content again on the form as a barcode pattern, it is possible to maintain sufficient image quality as a barcode image. It is possible to prevent the image quality of the barcode and the reading rate from being deteriorated due to the occurrence of image fogging, omission, jitter, etc. and the decrease in PCS value, which occur when the code is enlarged and printed.

It has the effect of.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b) are block diagrams of a mechanism system of a distributed matter processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electric system of the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a layout diagram of a hard copy output in this embodiment, FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a conventional mail processing device, and FIG. 5 is a delivery service of registered mail using this mail processing device. It is a flow chart. 2 ... Copy table, 30 ... Operation part, 50 ... Operation part, 60
...... Control unit, 70 …… Copy image.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Okumura 4-3-1, Tsunashima-higashi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-61-21595 (JP, A) Special features Kai 61-51293 (JP, A) Actual public Sho 51-51280 (JP, Y2)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An image pickup means for picking up an image of a surface of a flowed product, a signal conversion means for converting a video signal obtained by the image pickup means into a digital signal, and a video signal digitized by the signal conversion means temporarily. A memory means for storing the barcode information, a barcode reading means for finding barcode information from the video signal and reading the content, and a barcode pattern for outputting the read barcode content again as a barcode pattern. A distributed matter processing device comprising: a generating means; and a printing means for outputting a video signal stored in the memory means to the hard copy with the barcode pattern.