KR20010063882A - System and its Method for creating delivery information of mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for creating mail delivery information is provided to classify mails rapidly and exactly by endowing a priority order in a mail address information element being recognized from mails and calculating a zip code and a delivery order code through comparing mail information recognized in accordance with the priority order with mail information stored in a database. CONSTITUTION: In a mails delivery information creating system for creating delivery information of mails, a recognition unit(12) recognizes a mail address from a mail. A mail address recognition result creating unit(13) re-arrays construction elements of the recognized mail addresses in accordance with a priority order. A storing unit stores information with respect to the mail address. A mail address comparing and mail address creating unit(24) compares the construction elements of the recognized mail address with the information with respect to mail addresses being successively stored in a storing unit from the superior, and creates a zip code of the mail address.

Description

System and its method for creating delivery information of mail}

The present invention relates to a system and a method for generating delivery information of a mail, in particular to prioritize a postal address information element recognized from a mail, and to recognize the postal information and databased postal information according to the priority. The present invention relates to a postal mail delivery information generating system for obtaining a postal code and a delivery order through comparison, and a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method.

The present invention applies a method of describing a postal address for supporting a high speed recognition of a postal address printed on a postal matter, and generates a result with a minimum number of steps of a postal code and a delivery order code according to a recognized Korean address. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for minimizing the recognition processing time described in a mailing envelope required for automatic mail sorting processing, so that a method for doing so can be provided. In the present invention, a procedure for generating and verifying a postal code and a means for retrieving and generating a delivery sequence code using address information corresponding to the area according to the generated postal code are applied. It is possible to generate postal codes and delivery order codes using less information retrieval and comparison methods than existing methods by using address information database and additional information of life, city, state, and city databases.

Conventionally, a postal code existing on a postal envelope is recognized in order to automatically classify a general postal matter, and the result is compared with the current postal code information, and a barcode is printed and read when appropriate, and the automatic postal processing is performed. Accordingly, the automatic classification by postal code is automatically processed in units of east or west.

In addition, as the deliveryman manually divides the mail in the area in order to deliver the mail, and delivers the mail to the recipients in the order of delivery, as a part of the effort to solve the problem that requires a lot of manpower and time. While applying the system to recognize the postal address, generating and encoding the mail delivery order information, and making efforts to use this information, the postal code verification and delivery order, which is the Korean mail address recognition and mail automatic classification information, is in progress. The long time to generate the code has a problem that it is difficult to automatically distinguish a large amount of mail at high speed.

Conventional recognition result processing flow searches the database to verify the postal code in the order of city / province / city, ward, dong, address, mass destination / building name among postal addresses, and then performs the postal mail by five or more steps. If the number is being verified and the postal code is correct, the delivery sequence code is generated by building, address or building name (e.g. apartment), building and lake among the connected databases searched to generate delivery order code. Three steps of searching and comparing are required to generate the order code, which causes a lot of time to generate postal codes and delivery order codes.

That is, the generation time of postal information and delivery order code using the recognition result is long, and it takes a lot of time to process when the recognition result is inaccurate. There was a problem that mails that need to be processed are recognized.

In addition, among the methods for providing the correct postal address, postal code, and delivery order code to the postal customer, the postal customer's address file may be received and converted. In order to provide such address correction support service, It should be possible to generate and provide postal code and delivery order code by address. In particular, a service system for providing an electronic commerce service requires a function of managing postal address information of many customers and generating accurate delivery information.

In addition, the current bar code printing system is implemented in order to efficiently perform automatic mail sorting process, and the postal code and delivery order code to be printed on the customer bar code should be applied as accurate information, so that the automatic sorting process can be effectively performed. There is a need for a method for effectively generating accurate postal codes and delivery sequence codes from postal addresses.

Accordingly, for the delivery of the mail to the correct recipient address, through the postal service server of the Postal Service, the automatic identification code for the latest postal address information (postal code, delivery order code) to generate a system that can be provided in a short time This is required.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and prioritizes the postal address information element recognized from the postal matter, and compares the postal information and the databased postal information recognized according to the priority. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mail delivery information generation system capable of quickly and accurately distinguishing mails by obtaining a postal code and a delivery order code, and a computer readable recording medium recording the method therefor and a program for realizing the method. .

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a system for generating mail delivery information according to the present invention;

Figure 2a and 2b is an embodiment flow diagram for a mail delivery information method according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is an embodiment of a postal address description for improving the recognition rate and the rapid generation of recognition results in the mail delivery information generation system applied to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

11: Mail 12: Optical Character Recognition System

13: Korean Postal Address Recognition Result Generator 14: Mass Destination and Building Name Comparator

15, 18, 21, 23: Database 16: Zip Code Comparator

17: Same name comparator 19: Bungee information comparator

20: Lifesaving comparator 22: State / province name comparator

24: Postal Code Generator 26: Delivery Order Code Generator

27: Automatic Separator

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mail delivery information generation system for generating delivery information of mail, comprising: recognition means for recognizing a postal address from mail; Means for generating a postal address recognition result for rearranging the elements of the recognized postal address in order of priority; Storage means for storing information about the postal address; And a postal information comparison and postal code generating means for generating a postal code for the postal item by comparing the components of the recognized postal address with information on the postal address stored in the storage means sequentially from the top.

In addition, the present invention, a mail delivery information generating method applied to the mail delivery information generating system, the first step of recognizing a postal address from the mail and rearranges the components of the recognized postal address according to the priority; And a second step of generating a postal code for the postal item by comparing the components of the recognized postal address with information on the postal address stored in the storage means sequentially from the top.

In addition, the present invention, in order to generate the mail delivery information, a mail delivery information generation system having a processor for recognizing the postal address from the postal mail and rearranges the elements of the recognized postal address according to priority function; And a program for realizing a second function of generating a postal code for the postal matter by comparing the components of the recognized postal address with information on the postal address stored in the storage means sequentially from the top. Provide a readable recording medium.

The present invention, the postal address information (province / city, gu, dong, dong, address, mass destination or building name, building number) and postal code as a result recognized by the optical character recognizer to recognize the postal address by inserting a general mail By using the result of the automatic mail is to generate the information that can be delivered by automatic classification, and the result is composed of the process of automatic classification by printing and reading the barcode as a result.

In the process of generating the postal code and delivery order code based on the recognition result by the optical character recognizer, it sequentially compares the recognized postal codes by sequentially accessing a large number of destinations or building names, towns and streets, district names, cities, states, and cities. It also consists of a process of applying a postal code after verifying the postal code through comparison with a postal code database.

In addition, if the correct postal code is generated, it is characterized in that the process of generating a delivery order code by searching the same and the address database by the three digits in front of the postal code.

The postal code and the delivery order code are generated by the mass destination information. In this case, the postal code and the delivery order code are generated without comparing the information of the city / province / precinct by searching for the order of the city, the address, the city, and the city. Verification can be performed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a mail delivery information generating system according to the present invention, and shows a system for confirming mail delivery and notifying a result thereof.

When the mail 11 is generated and sent by the mail address writing method shown in FIG. 3, the mail is input to the optical character recognition system 12 to recognize the Korean mail address in consideration of the mail address notation method. The recognition result is transmitted to the Hangul postal address recognition result processor 13 in line units and word units.

Receiving the Hangul address recognition result, the Hangul Postal Address Recognition Result Generator (13) stores information obtained in line, word, and word units, such as zip code, mass destination / building name (including company name), dong, address, phrase, city / Prioritizes and rearranges the provinces and cities.

In accordance with the order of the obtained information, the mass destination comparator 14 searches the database 15 for the mass destination and the building name.

If the building name of the search result is unique, if the building number exists, apply the postal code and delivery order code that match the building number, compare it with the recognized postal code, and if it is the same, apply the recognized result and apply the searched delivery order code. If it is not the same, it consists of applying the postal code of the searched result. In order to manage the zip code error description statistics may be stored and used in the postal information database 24.

When there are two or more mass destinations, in order to compare unique mass destinations, the recognized postal code, building name, building number, same name / address, life name, state / province / city information, mass destination / building comparator (14), and the same name Comparator 17, address information comparator 19, lifesaving comparator 20, and city / province comparator 22 are sequentially performed to obtain a large quantity of buildings, same name / address, life preserver, city / province / city database (15). , 18, 21, 23). The postal code comparator 16 sequentially searches a large number of destination / building comparators 14, same name comparators 17, address information comparators 19, life comparators 20, and city / province comparators 22, and The search result and the recognition result are compared to generate postal codes and delivery order codes 25 and 26. The comparison of names, phrases, etc. in the process of sequential comparison is performed sequentially from the first character of the corresponding name, and when the generation of the postal code and the delivery order code is completed, the step is completed even if it is an intermediate step, thereby minimizing the comparison step. It is done.

If the postal code and delivery order code are not generated, the ID bar code may be printed using an existing ID bar code printing function for processing an error mail, and the ID bar code may be classified and processed as a reject post.

If the mass destination search condition is not satisfied, the same name and name / address database recognized by the same name comparator 17 and the address information comparator 19 are searched, compared with the recognized postal code, and the comparison result post code is identical. If the result is not generated by this process, the postal code and delivery order code can be correctly generated by sequentially searching the city, state / province / city database. Includes features that make it possible.

That is, if there is no large number of destinations, the zip code and the same name are recognized by the same name comparator 17, and the postal code number 18 is searched to obtain the zip code, and the recognized address information comparator 19 is used. The postal information database 24 is searched based on the obtained information, and the postal code comparator 16 compares the legal / administrative postal code.

In addition, if the name does not match, the name comparator 20 searches the old name database 21 to generate a result, and only if the condition is not satisfied, the city name comparator 22 states. A postal code is generated using a method of searching a database (23) of a city.

When the postal code is generated by the above processes, after searching by the address information comparator 19 using the same address information as the postal code, the delivery order code is found and delivered to the delivery order generator 26. The delivery sequence code generator 26 combines the zip codes already generated by the zip code comparator 16 to encode information for automatic classification by the automatic classification encoder 27 and prints a barcode (28). After reading the barcode printed on the mail, it is automatically distinguished (29) and delivered.

By the above process, when generating the postal code, the building name and mass destination (building name, address, building number, zip code, delivery order code), name and address (building name, address, building number, zip code, delivery order code) ), The name of the building (building name, 3 digits before the postal code), and the city / province / prefecture (building name, 3 digits before the postal code) are constructed.

2a and 2b is a flow chart of an embodiment of a mail delivery information method according to the present invention.

First, FIG. 2A illustrates a method for generating a postal code and a delivery order code using a mass destination database in a mail delivery information generation system.

That is, it shows a method of automatic classification information using a large number of recipients in the flow for generating and verifying a mail by expressing a Korean postal address at a high speed and writing a postal code and a delivery order code according to the recognition result. .

When the general mail is received 201 and input into the optical character recognition system 202, the Korean address on the mail is recognized, and all the recognized Korean address information is transmitted to the Korean mail address recognition result generator (203).

This Korean Postal Address Recognition Result Generator determines the priority of the recognized and obtained information in the order of mass destination, number, postal code, dong, gu, state / province / city name (204). Check (205), if not, perform the process of A, and if there is, search the word by one letter unit using the name of the mass destination, and if there is a search result, the building name, building number, and zip code In step 206, if the delivery order code reads the information consisting of one field and checks whether there is a mass destination name (207), process A is performed, and if there is a mass destination and building name, it is checked (208).

If the check result of "208" is one mass destination and one building name, it is compared whether there is a building number among the searched results (206) (209).

As a result of the comparison of " 209 ", if there is a building number, the building number and the recognized building number of the destination are compared (210), and if there is a match, the postal code and delivery order code of the destination are stored in a temporary buffer ( 211), and compares the recognized postal code (212). As a result of the comparison of "212", if it does not match the recognized postal code, it is stored in the postal information database for use as statistical information of mis-posted information (216), and if the recognized postal code matches the searched result, the postal code In addition, the delivery sequence code is encoded (213) and printed on a 4 state bar code (214) so as to be automatically distinguished (214).

If the result of the comparison of "209" does not include the building number in the searched result (206) (209), the search result of a large number of destinations is generated and stored by the postal code and the delivery order code (211). However, if there is a mismatch between the recognized building number and the searched building number, the process A is performed.

As a result of the confirmation of "208", when there are several mass destinations, the same name database is searched by the recognized same name to obtain a building name, address, zip code, and delivery order code (217).

If the same name is matched with the mass destination (218), the first digit of the recognized postal code is compared, and if the first three digits or more match, the search result can be performed from the "209" process. If not, the building name is obtained by searching the old name database with the recognized old name (219).

Checking whether the bulk destination matches the life name (220), comparing the first digit of the recognized postal code, and matching the first three digits or more, starting from the "209" process according to the search result, The building name is obtained by searching the state / province database by the recognized state / province / state name (221).

It is determined whether the name of the mass destination matches the name of the city, state, or province (222). If the first 3 digits are matched from the first digit of the recognized zip code, the process is performed from the "209" process according to the search result. If not, it is divided into a reject mail, and an ID barcode capable of video coding is printed (223). The name comparison of Dong, Gu, Si, Do, and Gu is used to compare the first letter one by one to satisfy three characters or to compare only the initial characters that are unique to the Hangul characters of each letter. can do.

2B is a flowchart illustrating a method of generating a postal code and a delivery order code when a large number of destinations are not included in a mail delivery information generation system. Among the methods for generating and verifying a postal code and a delivery order code by a small number of steps, a method for generating automatic classification information when not a large number of destinations is shown.

In the case of not a large number of destinations according to the process of FIG. 2A and a building number recognized in the process of generating a postal code and a delivery order code by the large number of destinations, the town / address database is based on the agreement name among the recognized character information. Search (224) to obtain the address, postal code, delivery order code information (224), and check that the same name and only one exists (225).

As a result of the confirmation of "225", if the name matches and there is only one, the search result is compared with the recognized address (230), and if it is matched, the search result is again compared with the recognized postal code (232), and the result is identical. Then, process B is performed so that the recognized postal code and the searched delivery order code can be applied.

"230" comparison result, if the search results and recognition address information does not match, legal dong zip code may be applied, but delivery order code is not applicable and administrative dong zip code may be applied, so legal dong mail Since the method can be applied to automatically distinguish the number by number and can be separated separately during the delivery process, create a message so that the delivery sequence code is not printed as a bar code (231). To be applied and processed. However, when it is desired to correct the video coding method, it is also possible to generate and apply an ID barcode.

As a result of the comparison of "232", if the search result is not accurate compared with the recognized postal code, and is not generated by the delivery order code, a process of C or less is performed.

If the name of the agreement is the same or more than one, and if the postal code does not match by the recognized name and postal code (225), the phrase name database is searched by the name of the recognized phrase (226). By acquiring the zip code and confirming whether it matches the recognized phrase name (227), if it matches, the process of "230" or less is performed using the search result of the same name, and the postal code recognized by the names of the phrase and the phrase is identical. If not, search the city / province database to see if the postal code matches (229).

As a result of the confirmation of "229", if it matches, the process starts from "208", and if it does not match, the process below C is performed so that it may be processed as an error mail.

The comparison of the names of Dong, Gu, Si, Do, and Gu can consist of three characters that are satisfied by comparing the previous characters one by one, or can compare only the initial characters that are unique to the Hangul characters of each character. Do.

3 is an embodiment of a mailing address for improving recognition rate and quickly generating a recognition result in a mail delivery information generation system applied to the present invention, and a postal mail for supporting efficient mail recognition according to the present invention. The method of generating the recognition result according to the address writing method and the postal address writing form of this mail is described.

In the mailing envelope, enter the postal address on the first line in the following order: "city, city, county, street address" or "province, city, county, street address" or "province, county, town, address." In the second line, enter the name of the apartment and the number of the building, the name of the mass destination or the number of the mass destination, etc., enter the payee name in the third line, and the postal code in the fourth line. Clearly providing the location of the information to be recognized in the text can minimize the effort to generate the recognition processing result.

For example, since the numeric information is written after the rightmost character ("address") of the first line, the number recognition area can be easily distinguished, and since the number "301" is used immediately when no "address" character exists, Address information can be easily interpreted depending on the presence or absence of the "address" character.

In addition, even in the case of the number 302 after the building name, it is understood that the rightmost part of the second line is numeric information and the maximum number of digits is determined, so that the recognition is easy. In addition, if the number does not exist, it may be determined that the names of the mass destinations 311, 321, 331, and 341 start with the character on the left, and thus may be applied to a method for improving recognition performance.

In addition, the postal code may be corrected even when the postal code and the delivery sequence code are incorrectly recognized in the process of generating the postal code and the delivery order code according to the present invention. . This postal code can be corrected by applying a method of generating a postal code using the recognition result.

In addition, the building code 302, 312 and the address (301, 322) information can be utilized as a search information for generating the order code, as well as legal dong / administrative zip code, even if "322" does not have a large number of destinations A postal code and a delivery order code may be generated using the information registered at 321.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains, and the above-described embodiments and accompanying It is not limited by the drawings.

As described above, the present invention provides a basis for quickly processing a recognition result by a postal address writing method, and also generates a postal code and a delivery order code by mass destination information. By creating and searching in the order of the city, it is possible to generate postal codes and delivery order codes and perform verification functions without comparing city / province / division information. This can reduce the productivity of postal processing.

In addition, providing a postal address service using the present invention in the process of generating postal mail can provide an accurate postal code and delivery order code, thereby improving postal mail throughput.

In addition, the present invention has an effect that can process a lot of information in a short time because the search speed is faster when applying all services using the postal information, including electronic commerce.

Claims (13)

In the mail delivery information generation system for generating delivery information of the mail, Recognition means for recognizing a postal address from the postal matter; Means for generating a postal address recognition result for rearranging the elements of the recognized postal address in order of priority; Storage means for storing information about the postal address; And Postal information comparison and postal code generation means for generating a postal code for the postal item by comparing the components of the recognized postal address with information on the postal address stored in the storage means sequentially from the top Mail delivery information generation system comprising a. The method of claim 1, And a postal code comparison means for checking whether the generated postal code and the postal code stored in the storage means match. The method of claim 1, And a delivery order code generating means for generating a delivery order code for the mail using the generated postal code and the address information stored in the storage means. The method of claim 1, Encoding means for encoding to output the generated zip code and a delivery order code; And Output means for outputting the encoded zip code and delivery order code as a barcode Mail delivery information generation system further comprising a. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, The priority of the postal address component is Mail delivery information generation system, characterized in that the priority is lowered in the order of a large number of destinations, town name, address information, old name, city name. The method of claim 5, Encoding of the encoding means, Mail delivery information generation system for generating delivery information of the mail, characterized in that for encoding to output in a bar code. In the mail delivery information generation method applied to the mail delivery information generation system, Recognizing a postal address from postal items and rearranging components of the recognized postal address in order of priority; And The components of the recognized postal address are stored in the storage means sequentially from the top A second step of generating a postal code for the postal item, in comparison with the information on the postal address; Mail delivery information generation method comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein And a third step of generating a delivery order code for the postal item by using the generated postal code and the address information stored in the storage means. The method of claim 7, wherein And a third step of confirming whether the generated zip code and the zip code stored in the storage means match. The method of claim 7, wherein And a third step of encoding the generated postal code and a delivery order code and printing the barcode. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 10, Priority of the components of the postal address of the first step, A method for generating mail delivery information, characterized in that the priority is lowered in the order of a large number of destinations, town names, address information, city names, and city / province names. The method of claim 11, The process of comparing the information on the postal address with the components of the recognized postal address, The comparison of the name of the town, the name of the city, and the name of the city / province in the sequential order from the top is performed by sequentially comparing the first letters such as the name of the town, the name of the city, and the name of the city / province, and generating a postal code. The mail delivery information method characterized in that the end of the comparison process is completed. In the mail delivery information generation system having a processor, to generate mail delivery information, A first function of recognizing a postal address from postal items and rearranging components of the recognized postal address in order of priority; And A second function of generating a postal code for the postal item by comparing the components of the recognized postal address with information on the postal address stored in the storage means sequentially from the top; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this.