EP 1607143 B1 20080723 - Process and apparatus for treating postal items including reading of an improved bar code
Title (en)
Process and apparatus for treating postal items including reading of an improved bar code
Title (de)
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Bearbeiten von Postsendungen mit dem Auslesen eines verbesserten Barcodes
Title (fr)
Procédé et machine de traitement d'envois postaux avec une lecture d'un code barres améliorée
Publication
Application
Priority
FR 0451025 A 20040525
Abstract (en)
[origin: US2005269395A1] In the method of handling mail items, while a mail item is on its first pass through the machine, the method consists in forming a digital image of the surface of the mail item, in deriving, from the image, a digital fingerprint characterizing the mail item, and in recording said digital fingerprint in a memory in correspondence with the bar code printed on the mail item. While the mail item is on its second pass through the machine, the method consists in reading the printed bar code that is printed on the mail item, and, if it has not been possible to extract completely the information contained in the printed code read off the mail item, in using said correspondence in the memory between the printed code that is printed on the mail item and the digital fingerprint that characterizes the mail item to continue machine-sorting the mail item, thereby contributing to reducing the error rate. The printed bar code that is printed on the mail item may be a mail item identity code, a customer applied identifier, or a sorting code for outward and/or inward sorting.
IPC 8 full level
B07C 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
B07C 3/14 (2013.01 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2005269395 A1 20051208; US 7413114 B2 20080819; AT E401973 T1 20080815; CA 2507857 A1 20051125; CA 2507857 C 20110118; CN 100540156 C 20090916; CN 1701863 A 20051130; DE 602005008310 D1 20080904; DK 1607143 T3 20081124; EP 1607143 A1 20051221; EP 1607143 B1 20080723; ES 2309691 T3 20081216; FR 2870757 A1 20051202; FR 2870757 B1 20060630; PT 1607143 E 20081001
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 13533605 A 20050524; AT 05300302 T 20050420; CA 2507857 A 20050520; CN 200510073844 A 20050524; DE 602005008310 T 20050420; DK 05300302 T 20050420; EP 05300302 A 20050420; ES 05300302 T 20050420; FR 0451025 A 20040525; PT 05300302 T 20050420