KR200353215Y1 - Invoice for generating information on tributary for delivery - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a waybill for generating delivery classification information, and includes an address code encoding at least one "two phonetic" of the initial two syllables in at least one administrative unit address of each administrative unit of the corresponding address. By doing so, it is possible to efficiently classify the goods according to the destination.

Description

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The present invention relates to a waybill for generating delivery classification information, and more particularly, to a waybill for efficiently classifying goods according to a delivery place in a courier service.

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.

In addition, the prior art of automatically classifying the items to be delivered among the 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.

1 is a diagram illustrating an optical character recognition (OCR) recognition area of a conventional waybill. Shipping address information is written manually in the OCR recognition area existing in the waybill according to the prior art.

In general, the OCR recognition area is composed of a postal code area and an address input area. The postal code area is provided with an area for directly inputting a postal code, and the address area is for writing an address in administrative units. An area 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 the vendor's 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.

This prior art used OCR recognition technology to eliminate the hassle 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 waybill for generating delivery classification information which can improve the recognition rate when recognizing a handwritten address for automatically classifying goods.

Another object of the present invention is to improve the recognition rate by encoding words of a limited type such as an address.

And another object of the present invention is to make it easy to write the coded address by encoding in a letter (頭 文字) or a letter and vowels.

1 is a diagram illustrating an OCR recognition area of a conventional waybill.

2 and 3 are views showing an example of describing an address code in the waybill according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

4 and 5 are conceptual diagrams for explaining a principle of encoding and decoding addresses in Korean and English letters, respectively, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

6 shows an example of creating a waybill in the case of OCR encoding in Korean or English format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a diagram illustrating a character code in the case of OCR encoding in the English format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

8 shows an example of creating a waybill in the case of OMR encoding in Korean according to an embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a diagram illustrating a character code in the case of OMR encoding in the Hangul format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

10 and 11 are diagrams illustrating an example of a waybill preparation in the case of OMR encoding in English format and a character code in the case of OMR encoding in English format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

12 shows an example of creating a waybill when OCR encoding and OMR encoding are mixed encoding in Korean format, and FIG. 13 illustrates OCR encoding and OMR encoding hybrid mixing in English format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. An example of waybill preparation is shown.

14 is a schematic configuration diagram of a delivery service system to which a waybill is applicable according to an embodiment of the present invention.

15 and 16 are flowcharts illustrating a process of acquiring delivery classification information using a waybill with an OCR recognition area according to an embodiment of the present invention.

17 and 18 are flowcharts illustrating a process of acquiring delivery classification information using a waybill having an OMR recognition area according to an 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

One aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a shipping classification including an address code encoding at least each "acronym" of at least the initial two syllables in at least one administrative unit address of each administrative unit of the corresponding address Provide a waybill for generating information. That is, administrative districts are classified into provinces, cities, counties, wards, towns, towns, dongs, towns, towns, roads, towns, towns, and mountains. In this case, the encoding may be performed using at least one of these administrative regions, for example, an effect of the present invention may be obtained only by encoding using an initial two-syllable of an address corresponding to a city or city. Preferably, the first two syllables are encoded in the addresses of all administrative units.

Preferably, the address code is an OCR format for handwriting or an OMR format for selecting an item, and the two consonants may be a consonant of the Korean alphabet or a first alphabet of English, and the address code may include information about a street address or a mountain. Information is available. On the other hand, the address code can be constructed by mixing OCR and OMR in Korean or English format.

Preferably, at least one of each of the " acronyms " may further comprise a subsequent note. For example, in the case of an address code consisting of two syllables of an initial two syllable, it is possible to add a vowel to the two syllables of the first syllable, or to add a vowel to the two syllables of the second syllable. It is also possible to add and configure each collection.

Preferably, the waybill is further provided with an address entry area for manually inputting an address, which can be used for address verification by comparing with the decryption address of the address code.

Preferably, each administrative division unit of the address code is written in city, ward, dong, address, or city, town, and address, and each administrative unit of the address code extracts the corresponding postal code. It can be used to.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the following embodiments are provided to those skilled in the art to fully understand the present invention, and can be modified in various forms, the scope of the present invention is limited to the embodiments described below It doesn't happen. 2 and 3 are views showing an example of describing an address code in the waybill according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, the address code may be written in units of cities, towns, towns, and addresses, or may be written in cities, towns, and addresses. 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. " For example, the address code may be “ㄱ ㄴ”, “ㄱ ㅈ”, “ㅅ ㅎㅎ ㅕ”, “500.” In the present embodiment, for example, a state / province or a city unit may be a duplicate of an acronym. Since the case is rare, only two letters are used to construct the address code, and the town / dong is composed of two letters and the following vowels.

Since these address codes correspond to addresses corresponding to the delivery classification information, the delivery classification information corresponding to the postal code can be obtained by accurately reading only the address code. In this case, since the delivery classification information is necessary because the nature of the delivery service, the actual delivery address is required only when the delivery person visits the actual recipient, the delivery classification information is often required only at the postal code level indicating the delivery unit.

4 and 5 are conceptual diagrams for explaining the principle of encoding and decoding addresses in Korean and English letters, respectively, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The address and the number of the address may vary depending on the purpose and length of the address and call, etc., depending on whether or not to encode only the address. The latter is the case of encoding at the postal code level and the former is the case of encoding to the final destination. In the address area, a code to indicate the 'mountain' address can be inserted at the beginning of the address area.

Hereinafter, in the waybill according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, each example according to whether the encoding of the Hangul alphabet is in the Hangul format or the English format and in the OCR format or the OMR format will be described.

(OCR format coding)

6 shows an example of creating a waybill in the case of OCR encoding in Korean or English format according to an embodiment of the present invention. The waybill of FIG. 6 is provided with an address writing area and a recognition area, and various information required for other goods delivery can be described. The recognition area is composed of "Do / City", "City / Gun", "Gu / Myeon / Eup", "East / Ga / Myeon / Ro / Eup / Ri", "Mountain", and "Address". It can contain writable address codes. The address actually written in the address entry area is provided for comparison with the address recognized from the recognition area, and a duplicate address process may be performed by inputting a corresponding address (step 322).

In the case of OCR encoding in a Korean format, a method may be used in which the corresponding alphabet is separately recorded in the character area.

In case of OCR encoding in English format, follow the English rules of Hangul, but use 'G' and 'K' as 'G' and 'K' and 'D' and 'ㅌ' as 'D' for better distinction. And 'T' to separate 'ㅂ' and 'ㄷ' into 'B' and 'P'. In addition, the Korean initial consonant 'ㅇ' is omitted because there is no phonetic sign. 7 is a diagram illustrating a character code in the case of OCR encoding in the English format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

(OMR format encoding)

In the case of OMR encoding in Korean format, it is preferable to use the encoding method as shown in FIG. 8 because there is an advantage of multiple marking instead of considering the limitation of paper size. 8 shows an example of creating a waybill in the case of OMR encoding in Korean according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this case, "a" and "ㄲ" are represented by "a", "b" by "b", "c" and "k" by "c", and both consonants are encoded as normal consonants. . The seven vowels 'ㅘ', 'ㅙ', 'ㅝ', 'ㅞ', 'ㅟ', 'ㅚ' and 'ㅢ' are encoded as a combination of two vowels separated by appearance. This method not only facilitates the writing of the address code but also improves the recognition rate by representing writable acronyms or vowels according to similarity. 9 is a diagram illustrating a character code in the case of OMR encoding in the Hangul format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In the case of OMR encoding in English format, similarly to the case of OMR encoding in Korean format, it is possible to take advantage of the advantage that a higher discrimination encoding can be performed through the marking. For example, a double vowel may be encoded as a combination of multiple vowels. That is, "Y" can allow "Y" and "A" to represent "Y" and "Y". 10 and 11 are diagrams illustrating an example of a waybill preparation in the case of OMR encoding in English format and a character code in the case of OMR encoding in English format according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

On the other hand, OCR encoding and OMR encoding may be used in a mixed form. For example, FIG. 12 shows an example of creating a waybill in case of OCR encoding and OMR encoding in Korean format, and FIG. 13 shows an example of creating a waybill in OCR coding and OMR encoding in English format. have.

On the other hand, address and building name are the final factors when determining postal code. If the lake is attached after the address, it can correspond to the final destination. Even if the lake or department name is attached to the building name, it can correspond to the final destination. Therefore, as mentioned above, how to enter a street address and a building name determines whether the correspondence level is up to the postal code or the final destination. In this embodiment, both the postal code level and the final destination level can be applied, but the postal code level encoding is preferable.

The coding of a street address can be simply expressed as an Arabic numeral and a-code (if a lake is written), but the building name is not. It can be configured to correspond to the final destination, and in general address entry, entering a building name and its lake or final destination can be substituted for address and lake entry. In the case of major buildings, even a building name can be used to match a postal code. However, there are many variations in how to write the building name or the final destination belonging to it, so it is difficult to consistently encode it in Korean or English alphabet.

For example, in the case of a building name, there will be a person who remembers Gyodong Buyeong Apartment as just Buyoung Apartment, and in the case of the final destination, it can be expressed as 00 dong 000, 00 department, or 00 floor. . In addition, even if only the building name is encoded and corresponded to the postal code level, the building address to be written by the address writer cannot be distinguished from the postal code. Therefore, preferably, the address assigned to the building is entered in advance or, if not, the address is omitted so as to correspond to the representative postal code of the area.

Next, with reference to the accompanying Figure 14 will be described in detail the shipping service system applicable to the waybill of the subject innovation.

The server 100 receives the shipping information about the goods and the goods from the first to N-th branch terminals 104 ₁ to 104 _N to provide a delivery service, 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.

The control unit 200 of the branch terminal controls the overall branch terminal, extracts the delivery classification information from the scan data provided by the OMR scanner 204 or OCR scanner 206 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention 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.

Next, a process of obtaining delivery classification information using the waybill provided with the OCR recognition area will be described with reference to FIGS. 15 and 16.

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. 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 scan data for the address writing area in the scanned data in the memory unit 218 (step 306).

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 determines whether the address code is an error by searching whether the information corresponding to the read address code exists in the first table provided in the memory unit 218 (step 310). If the address code is not an error, 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). As a specific example for checking the duplicate address, if the real address image is extracted in advance and duplicate decoding occurs, the human worker may present the real address image for selection. When the encoding was performed according to the present embodiment, the address code and the actual address did not have a 1: 1 correspondence, and the corresponding ratio was calculated to be about 0.99: 1 (23677: 23852). This means that a lot of duplicate addresses occur.

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.

Next, a process of obtaining delivery classification information using the waybill provided with the OMR recognition region described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 17 and 18.

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.

On the other hand, in the case of OMR, since the recognition rate is almost 100% per mark compared to OCR, a separate malfunction correction operation may not be added.

As mentioned above, although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. This is possible.

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 (13)

In the way of generating the classification information, Generating shipping classification information, characterized in that it comprises at least one of the administrative unit address of each address of the address at least the first two syllables of the "acronyms" by encoding the address code to enable automatic recognition Waybill. The method of claim 1, The address code is a waybill for generating shipping classification information, characterized in that the OCR format for handwriting or OMR format for selecting items. The method of claim 1, The invoice is a waybill for generating delivery classification information, characterized in that the first consonant of the Korean alphabet or the first alphabet of English. The method of claim 1, wherein the address code, A waybill for generating delivery classification information characterized in that information about a street or mountain is added. The method of claim 1, A waybill for generating delivery classification information, further comprising an address entry area for inputting an address by hand. The method of claim 5, wherein A waybill for generating delivery classification information, characterized in that an address described in the address description area is compared with a decoded address of the address code. The method of claim 1, A waybill for generating delivery classification information, characterized in that each administrative unit of the address code is written in a city, ward, town, or street address unit, or in a city, city, town, and street address. The method of claim 1, A waybill for generating delivery classification information, wherein each administrative unit of the address code is used to extract a corresponding postal code. The method of claim 1, The address code is a waybill for generating delivery classification information, characterized in that the OCR and OMR mixed encoding in the Korean format or English format. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, And at least one of each of the " acronyms " can further include a subsequent phoneme. delete delete delete