JPS60136883A - Coding device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve a coding efficiency by dividing a coding disk into each kind of different characters, and distributing its read picture to a display means of the respective corresponding coding disks at every address information of each kind of the different characters. CONSTITUTION:As for a postal matter P carried through a carrier path 52, information of its surface is read optically by a picture reader 58, and a control part 42 recognizes whether picture information read by a discriminating part 91 is an alphabet or a Chinese character, and converts address information to bar-code information corresponding to it. In case picture information of an alphabet is supplied, and in case picture information of a Chinese character, a data processing part 14 outputs them ot an alphabet video coding disk 81... and a Chinese character video coding disk 82..., respectively. Accordingly, in the disk 81..., its picture information is displayed by a CRT display device 82, and an operator inputs address information of an alphabet corresponding to this display by an alphabet keyboard 83. Also, in the disk 82..., its picture information is displayed by the CRT display device 82, and the operator inputs address information of a Chinese character corresponding to this display by a Chinese character keyboard 83.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a coding device that assigns a barcode according to the WC result or coding of an address on a postal item, and performs classification according to the barcode. .

[Technical background of the invention]

Conventionally, when there are many pieces of mail from overseas that do not have a postal code, the address written on the piece of mail is optically scanned, and the address reading system is based on the results of this optical scanning. If the correct address is read, a barcode corresponding to this address will be added to the mail.

Also, if the correct address cannot be read, the results of the above optical scanning will be returned. , display the scanned image on the display,
Is the operator key to this display? A coding system is provided which applies a z4-code on the mail piece by entering the address in the -code. Then, the postal items to which barcodes have been added as described above are sorted and accumulated in corresponding sorting boxes.

[Problems with background technology]

However, with the above-mentioned device, if the address written on the mail piece includes both English and Chinese characters, a complicated keyboard that can input both Chinese and English characters is required in order to code the address. Furthermore, if the keyboard is complicated, the address to be entered is in English and Chinese characters, which makes it very complicated and requires a lot of effort over and over again, reducing coding efficiency.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a coding device that can improve coding efficiency.

, [Summary of the Invention] The present invention divides a coding desk into different character types, and distributes the read images for each destination information of different character types to corresponding display means of the coding desk. This is what I did.

[Embodiments of the invention]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Fig. 1 is an overview of a mail processing system in which the mail sorting device of the present invention is installed. sorting,
This is a mail sorting device that does not have a stamping section connected to it. Further, 7 is a plurality of video coding disks 81...
8z..., distributor 9, and data control unit 14
Al in a coding room consisting of.

In the above-mentioned mail sorting devices 1 and 2, 10 sorts small regular mail items that can be machine-processed from the mail items P supplied to the supply section 1, aligns the direction according to the position of the stamp, and arranges the postmark. This is a sorting, arranging and stamping machine that outputs the sorting machine to the sorting machine coupling machine 12.

The sorting machine coupling machine 12 connects the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 10 and the reading and sorting machine 13. The reading and sorting machine 13 of the mail sorting devices 1 and 2 is used for primary and secondary switching sorting. A, mail sorting device 3, 4.6
is for primary sorting, and the mail sorting device 6 is for secondary sorting.

Next, the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 10 will be explained with reference to FIG. This sorting, arranging and stamping machine 10 includes a supply section 1 which supplies mail items P received in a mail receiving section 21 while leveling them by conveying them obliquely upward, The supplied mail P... is packed and the belt-type thickness sorting method is used to sort out non-standard mail P with a predetermined thickness or more.
A thickness sorting section 22 that removes ..., and a width sorting section 23 that removes non-standard size mail P... having a predetermined width or more from among the mail P that has passed through the thickness sorting section 22. .2 All non-standard size mail items P that have J and are not suitable for mechanical processing in the subsequent process...
is removed here. The non-standard size mail items P... rejected by the thickness sorting section 22 and the width sorting section 23.
On the other hand, the regular-sized mail P that has passed through the width sorting section 23.23...
The stamps are transferred one by one to the collecting and stamping section 26, where a stamp detector 27 such as a color detection method is used.
h. After the stamps are inspected at 27b, they are postmarked by a stamping machine (1428) based on the location of the stamps, and the orientation can be aligned based on the location of the stamps via the switchback mechanism 29. Among the regular mail items P for which the postmark has been completed, express mail items are stored in the express delivery collection section 3.
0, and the remaining ones are carried out to the sorting machine coupling machine 12 side.

In addition, No. 3 is used when using the sorting, arranging and stamping machine alone without connecting to the sorting machine coupling machine 12 side, or when the machine in the subsequent process is down, etc., when ordinary mail P...
32 is a reject collection section, and 33 is a regular mail collection section for collecting pre-selected regular mail items Pa.
This is a manual feeding section for directly supplying... to the procurement stamp section 26 side.

Further, the sorting machine coupling machine 12 connected to the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 1O configured as described above is not a known buffer stacker, and is used to store stamped regular-sized mail pieces carried out from the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 10. It reliably supplies P... one mail at a time according to the processing capacity of the reading and sorting machine 13, and has the function of stocking surplus mail brought in in excess of the supplied amount.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, read and sort the machine 13.
Explain. This reading and sorting machine 13 includes an image reading section 4 which obtains image information by photoelectrically converting the address information on the postal item P... and an address according to the image information read by this image reading section 41. A control section 42 having a discriminating section for discriminating information delays the mail P... from the image reading section 41, and after this delay, the discriminating result of the discriminating section or the video coding desk 81... A delay/print unit 4 that prints a barcode (44j fixed code) on the mail P according to the address information coded with 82...
3, and a sorting section 45 that sorts into each section 1h44 . . . according to the barcode printed by the delay/printing section 43.

The image reading section 41 and the delay/print section 43 are
It is constructed as shown in FIG.

That is, the mail P supplied from the supply section 51 or the mail P conveyed from the sorting machine coupling machine 12 is conveyed on the conveyance path 52. On this conveyance path 52 is an image reader 5 that optically scans information on the mail P being conveyed.
8 is provided. The mail P that has passed through the image reader 58 is supplied to the sorting section 45 via the conveyance path 53 and the delay conveyance path 54. Near the end of the conveyance path 54 is a printer 5 that prints a barcode corresponding to the address information on the mail P being conveyed through the conveyance path 54.
5 and stackers 56,57 are provided.

The dividing section 45 is constructed as shown in FIG.

That is, the supply reading section 61 is provided with a supply section 62 that sets the postal items P on which barcode glints have been completed all at once in an upright position.
. . . is sent to the take-out unit 63 sequentially from the endmost mail item P.
The sheets are taken out upward one by one and taken and conveyed to the stacking and sorting section 65 side via the taking-in conveyance path 64. The above intake conveyance path 64
A reading device 65 is placed in the middle of the transport path to read the barcode of the mail P on the transport path. Also,
On the starting end side of the intake conveyance path 64, there are the delay/print units 43 to 91, and an input path 66 for carrying in the fed mail P.
The mail P to be brought in is transferred to the intake conveyance path 64.
It is designed to be sent to

Further, the terminal end of the intake conveyance path 64 is a vertical division conveyance path 67.
The mail P is conveyed through a horizontal divided conveyance path 68 provided in five vertical stages by a gate mechanism (not shown).
The above reading device 6 is placed in a to 68e or the exclusion pocket 69.
The items can be selectively sorted based on the reading results of No. 5. A large number (approximately 220) of designated sorting accumulation boxes 44 are arranged along the lower surfaces of the starting ends of the horizontal sorting conveyance paths 68a to 68e. Furthermore, ten preliminary sorting accumulation boxes 71 and ten rejection accumulation boxes 72 are respectively arranged at positions corresponding to the terminal ends of the horizontal sorting conveyance paths 68a to 68e.

Note that the other mail sorting devices 3 to 6 are also the mail sorting device 1,
It has the same configuration as the reading and sorting machine 13 of No. 2.

The above video coding desk 81..., 8□...
As shown in FIG.
The keyboard 83 includes a keyboard 83 for inputting address information corresponding to the image information displayed at 2. The above key? −
The code 83 is a video coding desk 81 for English characters.
In the case of the video coding desk 82 for kanji characters, keys for alphabetic characters are provided, and in the case of the video coding desk 82 for kanji characters, keys for kanji characters are provided.

Next, the main parts of the electric circuit will be explained with reference to FIG.
The image information for every 11 pieces of mail P8 from P8 is read, and the address information is determined by a discriminating section 91. The control unit 42 also prints a bar code on the corresponding mail piece P by supplying the bar code information corresponding to the identified address information or the bar code information supplied from the data processing unit 14 to the printer 55. This allows you to print the code. Furthermore, when the address information cannot be determined, the control section 42 outputs the image information to the data processing section 14. That is, the control unit 42 outputs address information in kanji when the discrimination unit 91 cannot discriminate alphabetic characters, and outputs it as address information in alphabetic characters when the discrimination unit 91 detects an alphabetic text but cannot distinguish an alphabetic address. It is supposed to be done.

The determining section 91 determines whether the image information or optical pattern information from the image reader 58 can be recognized as an alphabetic character - and whether it can be recognized as an alphabetical address. The other mail sorting devices 2 to 6 also have the same configuration as described above.

The data processing unit 14 is supplied with image information e-distribution 59
Each video coding desk 81..., 82
It is to be distributed to...

For example, alphabetic addresses are distributed to the video coding desks 81 for processing alphabetic characters, and addresses in kanji characters are distributed to the video coding desks 82 for processing kanji characters. Further, the data processing unit 14u video coding desk 81...

The address information supplied from 82, . . . is converted into barcode information, and the barcode information is output to the control unit 42 of the corresponding mail sorting device. in this case,
When the contents of address information in alphabetic characters and kanji characters are the same, the same barcode information is output.

Next, the operation in such a configuration will be explained. first,
Mail P... is supplied to supply section 1.

Then, the mail P supplied to the supply section 11 is sorted by the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 1o into small regular mail that can be processed mechanically, the position of the stamp is detected, the direction of the postmark is aligned, and the postmark is not detected. It will be stamped.

The mail P from the sorting, arranging and stamping machine 1o is conveyed via a sorting machine coupling machine 12 to a reading and sorting machine 13 to a multi-image reading section 4. Next, in the image reading section 41, the mail P supplied from the sorting machine coupling machine 12 or the supply section 51
The mail P taken out is conveyed on the conveyance path 52.

Accordingly, the information on the surface of the mail P conveyed along the conveyance path 52 is optically read by the image reader 58, and the reading result is supplied to the control section 42. Then, the control section 42
The determination unit 91 recognizes whether the read image information is an alphabetic character or a Chinese character, and if it is an alphabetic character, it is determined whether the address information can be recognized. Based on this determination, if the image information is an alphabetic character and the address can be recognized, the control unit 42 converts the address information into barcode information corresponding to the image information.

At this time, the mail P that has passed through the image reader 58 is conveyed by the conveyance paths 53 and 54, and faces the printer 55 after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

Further, based on the above determination, if the image information is not an alphabetic character, or if it is an alphabetic character but the address cannot be recognized, the control unit 42 outputs the image information to the data processing unit 14, respectively. Accordingly, when the data processing unit 14 is supplied with image information of alphabetic characters, the data processing unit 14 outputs it to one of the video coding desks 81 for alphabetic characters via the distributor 9, and the image information of kanji characters is supplied. If so, it is outputted to any of the kanji video coding desks 82 . . . via the distributor 9.

Therefore, in the video coding desk 81 to which the image information of the alphabetic characters is supplied, the image information is CR
It is displayed on the T display device 82, and the operator inputs the alphabetic address information corresponding to this display into the alphabetic key date 83.
Enter by. Further, at the video coding desk 82 to which the kanji image information is supplied, the image information is displayed on the CRT display device 82, and the operator inputs kanji address information according to the display using the kanji keyboard 83. . The address information in alphabetical and kanji characters inputted by the keystroke 83 is supplied to the data processing section 14 . From this K, the data processing section 14 converts the supplied address information into corresponding //-code information and outputs it to the control section 42 of the corresponding sorting device. In this case, when the contents of address information in alphabetic characters and kanji characters are the same, the same t<- code information is output. At this point, the control section 42 outputs the converted barcode information or address information supplied from the data processing section 14 to the printer 55, thereby allowing the control section 42 to output the barcode information or address information supplied from the data processing section 14 to the printer 55. When mail P faces the printer 55, a .-- code is printed on the mail P. The mail P on which this barcode is printed is supplied to the sorting section 45.

Next, in the sorting section 45, the mail P supplied from the delay/print section 43 or the mail P on which the barcode is printed and taken out from the supply section 62 is conveyed on the conveyance path 64. Thereby, the bar code on the surface of the mail P conveyed through the conveyance path 64 is optically read by the reading device 65. Then, the mail P is sorted and accumulated in the corresponding collection box 44 based on the reading result of the reading device 65.The same applies to cases where the mail P is sorted by the other mail sorting devices 2 to 6. It is supposed to work. However, the mail sorting devices 3 to 6 are designed to operate after the sorting and stamping processes are performed.

In the above embodiment, the case where English characters and Chinese characters are mixed is described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the same implementation can be made in the case where English characters and Arabic characters are mixed.

Furthermore, although a case has been described in which the discrimination section can discriminate alphabetic address information, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be adapted to individually discriminate alphabetic and kanji address information. For example, it is determined whether the image information is an alphabet or a kanji character, the address information of each alphabet is determined by a first discrimination section, the address information of kanji is discriminated by a second discrimination section, and based on these discrimination results, the first discrimination section This can be implemented with a system that distributes image information that cannot be determined by the determining section to the first group of video coding desks, and distributes image information that cannot be determined by the second determining section to the second group of video coding desks.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a coding device that can improve coding efficiency.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 1 is an overview of a mail processing system, Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the configuration of a sorting, sorting and stamping machine, and Fig. 3 is a configuration of an image reading section. 4 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the dividing section, FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the video coding desk, and FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram showing the main parts of the electric circuit. 1-6... Mail sorting device, 81-82-... Video coding desk, 9... Distributor, 13... Reading sorting machine, 14... Data processing unit Mi 41... Image Reading section, 42... Control section, 43... Delay/Print section, 44-- Sorting box, 45... Sorting section, 51...
- Supply section, 52, 53. 54... Conveyance path, 55...
Printer, 58... Image reader, 65... Reading device, 81.82... CRT display device, 83...
- Keyboard, 91...discrimination section.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A reading means for reading address information on a mail item, a determining means for determining the destination according to the reading result by the reading means, and a reading result by the reading means when the destination cannot be determined by the determining means. a plurality of coding desks consisting of a display means for displaying a message and a key date into which destination information corresponding to the display means can be input; In the coding device, the coding desk is divided into different character types, and the coding desk is divided into different character types, and destination information of the different character types is stored. 1. A coding device comprising means for distributing each read image to display means of a corresponding coding desk. (2) The coding device according to claim 1, wherein the specific code is a barcode. (3) reading means for reading written characters on both a first recording medium on which characters are written in a first language and a second recording medium on which characters are written in a language different from the first language; , a display means for exclusively displaying the characters written on each of the recording media that could not be read by the reading means, a setting means for setting the characters displayed on the display means, and a setting information corresponding to the setting means for the setting means. A coding device comprising: recording means for applying a code to each of the recording media.