KR200343603Y1 - Apparatus of generating infiormation of tributary for delevery and invoice thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The apparatus for generating a delivery classification information according to the present invention includes a scanner for scanning a waybill on which an address code is written, a memory section for storing a first table in which an address code is associated with an address, and a second table in which an address and delivery classification information are corresponded; And a control unit for reading an address code from the data scanned by the scanner, extracting an address corresponding to the read address code from the first table, and extracting delivery classification information corresponding to the extracted address from the second table. It consists of.

The waybill of the present invention is an administrative unit, an OCR recognition area or administrative unit for writing an address code consisting of an acronym or an abbreviation for an address, or an acronym or an abbreviation for an address. An OMR recognition area for selecting an item corresponding to the configured address code is provided.

Description

Shipping classification information device and consignment according thereto {APPARATUS OF GENERATING INFIORMATION OF TRIBUTARY FOR DELEVERY AND INVOICE THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a delivery system, and more particularly, to a shipping classification information device for classifying goods according to a delivery address and a corresponding waybill.

Physical distribution, which is the basis of the delivery service, is part of the economic activity of humankind, and the necessity of the mass production, mass sale, and mass consumption increased as the times came. As the necessity of physical distribution activities emerged, the delivery service that delivers the goods accurately and quickly to the consumers has emerged as an important part.

The delivery service consists of several processes such as receiving goods, transferring the received goods to the collection box, classifying the collected goods according to the delivery destination, and delivering each item to the delivery destination. In addition, various automation techniques for each process of the goods delivery service have been proposed.

As an automated technology for the delivery service, there is a patent application No. 10-2000-0052757 filed to the Korean Intellectual Property Office under the name of "cargo delivery system and delivery method", and the patented technology is applied at the time of delivery of cargo Disclosed is a technique for classifying a transport section according to a certain method and automatically selecting an appropriate delivery route for each transport section, so that a cargo can be delivered more quickly and accurately through the shortest route between the delivery location and the collection point.

As such, the development of technology has resulted in the automation of the goods delivery service, thereby enabling efficient and rapid goods service.

The prior art of automatically classifying the items to be delivered among the above delivery services according to the delivery destination will be briefly described using a courier service as an example.

The customer who wants to use the parcel delivery service calls the parcel delivery company and requests a visit, and according to the request, an employee of the branch office located in the relevant area of the parcel delivery company visits the customer. The employee receives the goods to be delivered from the customer and is provided with information for delivery. The shipping information may be sender information, a shipping address, recipient information, and the like. The employee of the parcel delivery company writes the delivery information on the waybill or the like.

As shown in FIG. 1, an OCR recognition area exists in the waybill, and delivery address information is written manually in the OCR recognition area.

Here, the OCR recognition area will be described in more detail. The OCR recognition area includes a postal code area and an address input area. The postal code area includes an area for directly writing a postal code, and the address area. In addition, addresses can be written in units such as provinces, cities, counties, wards, districts, towns, villages, towns and villages, districts, streets, blocks, apartments, buildings, etc. An area for writing is provided.

Then, when the courier's branch receives the waybill and goods in which the delivery address information is written in the OCR recognition area, the waybill is inserted into the information processing terminal provided at the corresponding point. The information processing terminal recognizes the contents described in the OCR recognition area of the waybill and automatically reads the delivery address, generates delivery classification information for the corresponding item based on the detected delivery address, and sends the delivery classification information to the corresponding parcel delivery service. Upload to your server.

The items uploaded with the shipping classification information are transferred to a collection box, and the terminal provided in the collection category classifies the items collected in the collection box by shipping destinations based on the delivery classification information for each item. It is transferred to the branch. Each branch office receives the goods to be delivered to the area in charge and delivers the goods to the recipient by referring to the delivery information.

As described above, in the related art, OCR recognition technology has been used to eliminate the trouble of having to input the delivery classification information every time the goods are received.

However, there are problems that many strings such as addresses are not recognized correctly by OCR recognition technology. In other words, if the recognition rate of handwritten Hangul is 90% per letter, the recognition rate is only 43% for an address of 8 characters or more. In order to solve the problem of low recognition rate of the address as described above, in the past, the recognition rate was increased by using a postal code and an address together.

However, this method did not solve the problem of low recognition rate of addresses written in Korean.

Moreover, in the situation where the postal code and address cannot be written together, there was also a problem that the reliability dropped sharply.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for generating classification information for delivery, which can improve the recognition rate when recognizing a written address for automatically classifying goods, and a waybill accordingly.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for generating classification information, which can improve the recognition rate by encoding words of a limited type such as an address, and a waybill accordingly.

And another object of the present invention is to encode the address in order to intuitively understand the encoding of the address by a letter (頭 文字) or two letters and vowels, the delivery classification information generation method for easily entering the coded address and To provide a device, and thus a waybill.

1 is a view showing an OCR recognition area of a conventional waybill.

2 and 3 illustrate an example of writing an abbreviated address according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 and 5 schematically illustrate a process of recovering an abbreviated address according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a code table for the Hangul notation according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

7 and 8 is a code table for the English notation according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a block diagram of a goods delivery system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

10 is a block diagram of a terminal for a branch according to an embodiment of the present invention.

11 is a flowchart of a method for restoring delivery classification information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

12 is a view showing an example of a waybill having an OCR recognition area according to the first preferred embodiment of the present invention.

13 is a flowchart of a method for recovering delivery classification information according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention.

14 is a view showing an example of a waybill having an OMR recognition area according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: server 102: database

104 ₁ to 104 _N : terminal for the first internal N-th point 200: control unit

202: interface 204: OMR scanner

206: OCR scanner 208: network interface

210: input and output interface 212: input device

214: display controller 216: display device

218: memory

The present invention for achieving the above object is a delivery classification information generating apparatus of the present invention, a scanner for scanning a waybill written address address, the first table corresponding to the address code and address, address and shipping classification information corresponding to A memory unit for storing the second table, and an address code is read from the data scanned by the scanner, an address corresponding to the read address code is extracted from the first table, and a shipping classification corresponding to the extracted address is obtained. And a control unit for extracting information from the second table.

The waybill of the present invention is an administrative unit, an OCR recognition area or administrative unit for writing an address code consisting of an acronym or an abbreviation for an address, or an acronym or an abbreviation for an address. An OMR recognition area for selecting an item corresponding to the configured address code is provided.

The present invention allows the address to be written using an address code consisting of two letters of the address. As such, the present invention improves the recognition rate of characters by reducing the characters to be recognized by two letters. In addition, the present invention can be composed of all the address code in the address code to write the address code, but also to improve the recognition rate can be composed of the address code and the next letter.

This invention is schematically described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5.

According to the present invention, the address code may be written in the unit of city, district, dong, address as shown in FIG. 2, or may be written in city, town, town, and address as shown in FIG. 3. That is, if the address is 337, Sindang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, the address code can be written as "ㅅ ㅇ", "ㅈ",: ㅅ ㅣ ㄷ ㅏ "," 377. " , The address code may be "ㄱ ㄴ", "ㄱ ㅈ", "ㅅ ㅎ ㅎ ㅕ", "500", where the state / province or ward / hour unit is often a duplicate of the acronyms. Therefore, the address code is composed of only two consonants, and the dong / eup is composed of two consonants and the following vowels because the two consonants are often duplicated.

Since the address code configured as described above corresponds to addresses corresponding to the delivery classification information, the delivery classification information corresponding to the postal code can be obtained by reading only the address code correctly. In this case, the delivery classification information is required only at the postal code level indicating the delivery unit, since the actual detailed address is necessary only when the delivery person visits the actual recipient due to the nature of the delivery service.

In addition, the present invention not only facilitates the writing of the address code but also improves the recognition rate by representing writeable two letters or vowels according to similarity. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, "a" and "ㄲ" are represented by "a", "b" is represented by "b", "c" and "k" are represented by "c", or in FIG. As shown, "a" and "v" may be represented by "G", "b" by "n", and "c" and "v" by "d". 6 and 7 are used when the OCR recognition method of directly writing characters is adopted.

In the case of adopting an OMR recognition method for selecting a desired character among the illustrated acronyms or vowels, since multiple marking is possible, a double vowel may be encoded by combining a plurality of vowels as shown in FIG. 7. That is, "Y" can allow "Y" and "A" to represent "?" And "E" and "U".

Now, a delivery service system to which the present invention is applicable will be described with reference to FIG. 9.

In order to provide a delivery service, the server 100 receives delivery information about goods and goods from the first to N-th point terminals 104 ₁ to 104 _N , registers them in the database 102, and registers the registered goods and Using the classification information on the goods, the goods collected in the storage area is classified and guided to transfer to the point. The database 102 stores various information for a delivery service at the request of the server 100.

When the waybill for the article is inserted according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first to Nth terminal terminals 104 ₁ to 104 _N scan the waybill to extract shipping classification information, and the extracted shipping classification. The information is transmitted to the server 100.

The first to the N branch terminal for the (104 ₁ ~ 104 _N) has the configuration and operates the same, less than or equal to the claim only any one of the terminals (104 ₁ ~ 104 _N) for the first to the N points of the structure and operation It explains in detail.

Referring to FIG. 10 illustrating a configuration of the branch terminal, the controller 200 of the branch terminal controls the branch terminal generally, and according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the OMR scanner 204 or the OCR. The delivery classification information is extracted from the scan data provided by the scanner 206, and the extracted delivery classification information is transmitted to the server 100.

The interface 202 interfaces between the OMR scanner 204 or the OCR scanner 206 and the control unit 200. When the waybill is inserted, the OMR scanner 204 scans an OMR recognition area and an address writing area of the waybill and provides it to the controller 200. When the waybill is inserted, the OCR scanner 206 scans the OCR recognition area and the address writing area of the waybill and provides it to the controller 200. Here, only one of the OMR scanner 204 and the OCR scanner 206 may be selectively installed according to the use environment of the corresponding point.

The network interface 208 provides an interface between the server 100 and the controller 200 through the Internet or a dedicated network. The input device 212 provides the controller 200 with various types of information input by an employee of a branch using a keyboard or a mouse. The input / output interface 210 interfaces the controller 200 and the input device 212. The display controller 214 displays the information according to the control of the controller 200 on the display device 216.

The memory unit 218 stores a processing program and various kinds of information of the controller 200. In particular, the memory unit 218 includes a first table composed of two letters and real addresses corresponding to address codes consisting of two letters and vowels, a second table composed of postal codes corresponding to the real addresses, and an address. Although the codes are different, the real addresses have duplicate address information, which is information about different addresses.

A first embodiment of the present invention for acquiring delivery classification information in a terminal terminal configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 and 12.

The control unit 200 of the branch terminal checks whether the delivery is requested and the waybill provided with the address base area and the OCR recognition area is inserted into the OCR scanner 206 (step 300). Here, the waybill is provided with an address base area and an OCR recognition area as shown in FIG. The detailed address up to the addressee is written in the address entry area. The OCR recognition area is written in units of "Do / Shi", "City / Gun", "Gu / Myeon / Eup", "East / Ga / Myeon / Ro / Eup / Ri", "Mountain", and "Address". It is composed of fields, and in each area, an address code consisting of two letters or two letters and a vowel is written. In particular, the " mountain " is intended to mark an address where a mountain is listed before a street address.

In this way, when a detailed address up to the addressee is entered in the address entry area and a waybill with an address code written in the OCR recognition area is inserted, the OCR scanner 206 scans the OCR recognition area and the address entry area provided in the waybill. The scan data is provided to the control unit 200 (step 304). The control unit 200 stores the scan data for the address base area among the scanned data in the memory unit 218.

The control unit 200 reads the address code from the scan data for the OCR recognition area of the scanned data (step 308). The control unit 200 searches whether there is information corresponding to the read address code in the first table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 310). If the read address code exists in the first table (step 310), the controller 200 extracts an address corresponding to the address code by referring to the first table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 316). ). When the address is extracted, the controller 200 checks whether the corresponding address is a predetermined duplicate address with reference to the duplicate address information (step 318).

If the extracted address is not a duplicate address, the controller 200 extracts a postal code corresponding to the extracted address by referring to the second table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 324).

After the extraction of the postal code, the controller 200 registers the extracted postal code as the delivery classification information for the corresponding article (step 326), and transmits the delivery classification information to the server 100 (step 328). .

If the read address code does not exist in the first table in step 310, the controller 200 displays scan data for the address writing area on the display device 216 and corrects the address code. (Step 312). According to the guidance, the employee of the branch may modify the address code by looking at the address written in the address entry area and entering a new address code (step 314).

In addition, if the extracted address is a duplicate address in step 318, the controller 200 displays scan data for the address region on the display device 216 and guides the duplicate address processing (step 320). According to the guidance, the employee of the branch may input an address corresponding to the address described in the address entry area to perform the duplicate address processing (step 322). Here, the duplicate address processing may not only input an address corresponding to the address described in the address entry area, but also directly input a postal code.

A second embodiment of the present invention for acquiring delivery classification information in a terminal terminal configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 13 and 14.

The control unit 200 of the branch terminal checks whether the delivery is requested and the waybill provided with the address base area and the OMR recognition area is inserted into the OMR scanner 204 (step 400). Here, the waybill is provided with an address base area and an OMR recognition area as shown in FIG. The detailed address up to the addressee is written in the address entry area. The OMR recognition area is composed of "Do / City", "City / Gun", "Gu / Myeon / Eup", "Dong / Ga / Myeon / Ro / Eup / Ri", "Mountain", and "Address". Each area consists of a choice consisting of two letters or acronyms and vowels. And the " mountain " is for marking an address where a mountain is written before a street address. Here, since the present invention consists of only two letters or letters and vowels of the address, the selection of the OMR recognition area can be greatly reduced.

As such, when a detailed address up to the addressee is entered in the address entry area and a waybill with an address code selected is inserted in the OMR recognition area, the OMR scanner 204 scans the OMR recognition area and the address entry area provided in the waybill, The scan data is provided to the control unit 200 (step 404). The control unit 200 stores scan data for the address writing area in the scanned data in the memory unit 218 (step 406).

The control unit 200 reads the address code from the scan data for the OMR recognition area of the scanned data (step 408). The controller 200 extracts an address corresponding to an address code by referring to the first table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 410). When the address is extracted, the controller 200 checks whether the corresponding address is a predetermined duplicate address with reference to the duplicate address information (step 412).

If the extracted address is not a duplicate address, the controller 200 extracts a postal code corresponding to the extracted address by referring to the second table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 418).

After the extraction of the postal code, the controller 200 registers the extracted postal code as the delivery classification information for the corresponding article (step 420), and transmits the delivery classification information to the server 100 (step 422). .

If the extracted address is a duplicate address in step 412, the controller 200 displays scan data for the address region on the display device 216 and guides the duplicate address processing (step 414). According to the guidance, the employee of the branch may input an address corresponding to the address described in the address entry area to perform duplicate address processing (steps 414 and 416). Here, the duplicate address processing may not only input an address corresponding to the address described in the address entry area, but also directly input a postal code.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage of improving the recognition rate when recognizing a handwritten address for automatically classifying articles.

In addition, the present invention has an advantage of improving the recognition rate by encoding words of a limited type such as an address.

In addition, the present invention has an advantage that can easily write the coded address by encoding the address in two letters (頭 文字) or a letter and a vowel to intuitively understand the coding of the address.

Claims (8)

In the delivery classification information generating device for delivering goods, A scanner scanning the waybill with address code, A memory unit for storing a first table corresponding to an address code and an address, a second table corresponding to an address and delivery classification information, A control unit for reading an address code from the data scanned by the scanner, extracting an address corresponding to the read address code from the first table, and extracting delivery classification information corresponding to the extracted address from the second table; Shipping classification information generating device comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the scanner, Shipping classification information generating device characterized in that the OMR scanner or OCR scanner. The method of claim 1, wherein the address code, Separate addresses by administrative district, Delivery classification information generating device, characterized in that consisting of a consonant or a consonant for the address of each administrative unit unit. The method of claim 3, wherein the address code, Shipping classification information generating device characterized in that the information on the address or mountain information is added. The method of claim 4, wherein the acronyms or vowels used in the address code are Shipping classification information generating device characterized in that any one character represents a plurality of acronyms or vowels according to similarity. The waybill according to any one of claims 1 to 5, An OCR recognition area for writing the address code by hand, or And an OMR recognition area for selecting an item for the address code. In the waybill used for the delivery classification information generating device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, OCR recognition area for entering an address code consisting of two letters or vowels for an address, in the unit of administrative area, or A waybill, characterized in that it is provided with an OMR recognition area for selecting an item corresponding to an address code consisting of an acronym or an acronym and a vowel for an administrative unit. The method of claim 7, wherein A waybill is further provided for entering an address by hand.