EP0300545A1 - Apparat zum Identifizieren eines oder mehrerer Gegenstände, zum Beispiel eines Magazines, Identifikationsverfahren und Erkennungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

Apparat zum Identifizieren eines oder mehrerer Gegenstände, zum Beispiel eines Magazines, Identifikationsverfahren und Erkennungsvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0300545A1
EP0300545A1 EP19880201434 EP88201434A EP0300545A1 EP 0300545 A1 EP0300545 A1 EP 0300545A1 EP 19880201434 EP19880201434 EP 19880201434 EP 88201434 A EP88201434 A EP 88201434A EP 0300545 A1 EP0300545 A1 EP 0300545A1
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Frank Van Der Heijden
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/34—Sorting according to other particular properties
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/02—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B07C3/08—Apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution using arrangements of conveyors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/34—Sorting according to other particular properties
    • B07C5/342—Sorting according to other particular properties according to optical properties, e.g. colour

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  • the appara­tus will mostly be used for identification of unsold magazines that are returned from kiosks and collected at a central collection depot and which have to be returned from there to the respective publishers or which can then be destroyed.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide a reliable apparatus and method of identification of sheet-­form objects, which is usable at high speeds, user-friendly, simple to construct and therefore relatively inexpensive.
  • a magazine 2 at a time from a stack of magazines 3 is placed, usually manually, via a feed table 1 (fig. 1) onto a rope conveyor 4 which is disposed sloping at an angle . Care is taken that the spine of each magazine 5 touches against a gutter edge 6.
  • a magazine 2 is guided as according to arrow 7 into an recognition device 8 which is connected, in a manner not shown, to a control computer 9 which, subject to identification in device or station 8, despatches magazines to one of the conveyors 10, 11 or 12 by opening one of the respective flaps 14, 15.
  • a conveyor 10 serves to discharge unidentified magazines which are guided past a terminal 16 connected in a manner not shown to control computer 9, where an operator can still identify the magazine with the naked eye and, via a simple input mechanism, for instance using a mouse or joy­stick, can enter such a magazine into the computer file in rapid manner, following which a conveyor 18 swivelling as according to arrow 17 can despatch the identified magazine to a conveyor 11 or 12; discharge conveyor 11 leads for example to a manual or automated sorting device for return despatch to a pub­lisher; finally, conveyor 12 carries away magazines for des­truction.
  • FIG. 1 The disposition shown in figure 1 has already been found to be cost effective for roughly 50,000 magazines for processing per day (two per second), while more than 200 different titles have to be identified per day. If the numbers of magazines amount to an order greater that the above number it may become effective to employ a separate remotely controllable flap per title, so that the magazines are immediately sorted per title.
  • identifying station 8 Arranged at identifying station 8 (fig. 2) between the ropes 121 the rope conveyor and at a short distance from the magazine 2 passing in the figure are two rows of four light sensitive or photo elements 20. Likewise arranged between two ropes 121 are two trigger elements 122 initiating the reading of the photo elements 20, which trigger elements can comprise a light beam to be interrupted by the magazine, an element similar to photo element 20 or an ultrasonic or mechanical detection element.
  • Light sensitive element 20 (fig. 3) is preferably built up of a LED (light-emitting diode) 21 which is provided in a manner not shown with the correct supply voltage and of a photo sensitive transistor 22, both accommodated in a housing 23 provided with transparent windows 24 and 25.
  • a quantity of light emitted by the LED 21 onto a surface portion 26 on the underside of a magazine 2, preferably on the cover page located on the underside of magazine 2, is for example three-quarters reflected, this depending on the so-­called grey value of this surface portion 26.
  • a light sensitive element comprises a photo diode enveloped by a radiant wire.
  • a voltage is transmitted from phototransistor 22 via lines 27 to an AD converter (analog-digital converter) 28 which is further provided with twelve digital outputs 29 as well as two ter­minals 30 and 31 which are connected in a manner not shown to the trigger elements 122, so that reading of the photo­transistor 22 is initiated by these trigger elements 122, after which the digital value thereof can be further processed via the lines 29.
  • AD converter analog-digital converter
  • a mean value of the amount of light received by the phototransistor 22 can be obtained over a greater area than the surface portion 26. It is also possible to take a mean value of two or more samples taken shortly after each other.
  • the operation of the identification algorithm per­formed at 34 is substantially as follows (fig. 6A, 6B, 7, 8): included in a part of the memory of the control computer 9 are tables 40 for each photo element 20, in which are stored the recorded values of the reference recordings, such as for instance for 200 magazines taken at the beginning of the day.
  • table 6A for each magazine during the initiating entering at the start of the day or week, there are stored sixteen 8-bits numbers or standard values, as is indicated using the squares 42.
  • the above mentioned algorithm is preferably performed in machine language.
  • control computer 9 indicated at 70 is the arrival of a crate of magazines returned from a kiosk, at 71 they are loaded on one by one and at 72 automatic identifica­tion is commenced;. if at 73 the automatic indentification has succeeded the administrative records of the relevant kiosk are updated at 74 and after it has been determined at 75, subject to the wishes of the publisher, which magazine may be destroyed, flap 15 is actuated at 76, while flap 14 is actuated at 77. If identification is not successive at 73, flap 13 is opened at 74 whereby at 75 the magazine may have to be turned over and identified by an operator sitting on seat 19 (fig.
  • the magazine for identification is not included in the file of that day, as established at 76, this can be indicated as such at 82 with control station 16, administra­tive recording thereof can be carried out at 83 by control computer 9, and at 80 the magazine can be discharged to belt 12 for destruction. It is also conceivable that belt conveyor 18 has an additional third position, in which for example in this latter case the magazine drops into a collecting bin or crate next to control station 16.
  • the apparatus according to preferred embodiments of this invention simple to use and construct, operates fast and reliable, is easily extendable and provides an on-line con­nection to the (small) computer which at the time automa­tically does the administration for the different accounts.

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EP19880201434 1987-07-09 1988-07-06 Apparat zum Identifizieren eines oder mehrerer Gegenstände, zum Beispiel eines Magazines, Identifikationsverfahren und Erkennungsvorrichtung Withdrawn EP0300545A1 (de)

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NL8701622A NL8701622A (nl) 1987-07-09 1987-07-09 Werkwijze en inrichting voor het herkennen van tenminste een op een transporteur aan te voeren plaatvormig voorwerp, bijv. een tijdschrift.
NL8701622 1987-07-09

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EP0497747A3 (en) * 1991-01-31 1993-06-16 Sib Siber S.R.L. An electronic device for colour shade or colour difference detecting
FR2692841A1 (fr) * 1992-06-24 1993-12-31 Adds Concept Imprimé notamment journal et dispositif de reconnaissance et de comptabilisation d'un tel imprimé.
EP0578859A1 (de) * 1992-07-17 1994-01-19 S.E. Servizi Editoriali s.r.l. Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Sortieren und Klassifizieren von Zeitschriften-Rückläufen
FR2697763A1 (fr) * 1992-11-12 1994-05-13 Messageries Lyonnaises Presse Ligne de reconnaissance et de traitement pour produits d'édition ou imprimés.
ES2081244A2 (es) * 1993-03-03 1996-02-16 Control Vision Computer Sa Perfeccionamientos para maquinas manipuladoras y clasificadoras de objetos planos.
ES2085202A1 (es) * 1993-01-27 1996-05-16 Control Vision Computer Sa Dispositivo para el procesamiento de la devolucion de articulos invendidos.

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US1900633A (en) * 1927-12-23 1933-03-07 Papyrus A G Apparatus for sorting transparent or translucent papers, film foils, and the like
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GB1132483A (en) * 1965-03-24 1968-11-06 Nederlanden Staat Device for scanning a code of parallel information and marking lines
US3538499A (en) * 1967-07-07 1970-11-03 Control Data Corp Optical reading machine
US4134498A (en) * 1976-07-12 1979-01-16 Geosource Inc. Multiplexed sorting apparatus
EP0067438A2 (de) * 1981-06-15 1982-12-22 Oxbridge, Inc. Automatisches optisches Inspektionsgerät
DE3239938A1 (de) * 1982-10-28 1984-05-03 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Verfahren zur erkennung, identifizierung und/oder qualitaetskontrolle von gegenstaenden
EP0119402A2 (de) * 1983-02-23 1984-09-26 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH Verfahren zur Erkennung und Identifikation von Gegenständen

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US1900633A (en) * 1927-12-23 1933-03-07 Papyrus A G Apparatus for sorting transparent or translucent papers, film foils, and the like
DE1034685B (de) * 1955-09-13 1958-07-24 Werner Kluge Dr Ing Lichtelektrische Abtasteinrichtung mit einem Abtastkopf aus einer Vielzahl von nebeneinander angeordneten lichtelektrischen Zellen
GB1132483A (en) * 1965-03-24 1968-11-06 Nederlanden Staat Device for scanning a code of parallel information and marking lines
US3538499A (en) * 1967-07-07 1970-11-03 Control Data Corp Optical reading machine
US4134498A (en) * 1976-07-12 1979-01-16 Geosource Inc. Multiplexed sorting apparatus
EP0067438A2 (de) * 1981-06-15 1982-12-22 Oxbridge, Inc. Automatisches optisches Inspektionsgerät
DE3239938A1 (de) * 1982-10-28 1984-05-03 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-Gmbh, 6000 Frankfurt Verfahren zur erkennung, identifizierung und/oder qualitaetskontrolle von gegenstaenden
EP0119402A2 (de) * 1983-02-23 1984-09-26 Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH Verfahren zur Erkennung und Identifikation von Gegenständen

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0497747A3 (en) * 1991-01-31 1993-06-16 Sib Siber S.R.L. An electronic device for colour shade or colour difference detecting
FR2692841A1 (fr) * 1992-06-24 1993-12-31 Adds Concept Imprimé notamment journal et dispositif de reconnaissance et de comptabilisation d'un tel imprimé.
EP0578859A1 (de) * 1992-07-17 1994-01-19 S.E. Servizi Editoriali s.r.l. Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Sortieren und Klassifizieren von Zeitschriften-Rückläufen
FR2697763A1 (fr) * 1992-11-12 1994-05-13 Messageries Lyonnaises Presse Ligne de reconnaissance et de traitement pour produits d'édition ou imprimés.
EP0597784A1 (de) * 1992-11-12 1994-05-18 Messageries Lyonnaises De Presse Erkennungs- und verarbeitungsweg für Auflageprodukte oder Drucksachen
ES2085202A1 (es) * 1993-01-27 1996-05-16 Control Vision Computer Sa Dispositivo para el procesamiento de la devolucion de articulos invendidos.
ES2081244A2 (es) * 1993-03-03 1996-02-16 Control Vision Computer Sa Perfeccionamientos para maquinas manipuladoras y clasificadoras de objetos planos.

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