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20090089236 | Method and System for Identifying Information Related to a Good - A method and a system identify information placed on a good to be processed, and the way of processing the good depends on this information. With regard to the method, the following steps are performed reading the information by an identifier and speaking the information as a voice message into an information retrieval system; delivering the voice message to a plurality of voice recognition systems; analyzing the voice message in each of the plurality of voice recognition systems and identifying a preliminary result; evaluating the preliminary results in order to identify the most probable result among the preliminary results best matching the initial information; and assigning the most probable result to the respective good. The system provides a reliable, high-speed multi speech recognition even in high ambient noise environments without the cost and complexity of introducing an OCR. | 04-02-2009 |
20090110284 | System and Method for Sorting Objects Using OCR and Speech Recognition Techniques - To perform character recognition on an object for automatic processing of the object in a processing system, where the object contains at least one character string of processing information, a character string spoken by an operator is processed by a speech recognition procedure to generate a candidate list containing at least one candidate corresponding to the operator-spoken character string. The candidate list and a digital image of an area containing the processing information are made available for an optical character recognition procedure. The OCR procedure is performed on the digital image in coordination with the candidate list to determine if a character string recognized by the OCR procedure performed on the digital image corresponds to a candidate in the candidate list. Any such corresponding candidate is outputted as the character string on the object. | 04-30-2009 |
20090127074 | Conveying device comprising at least one slide for piece goods, and method for stacking piece goods in a container - The invention comprises a conveying device for mail piece goods, and a method for the automatic oriented placement of such piece goods in a container. The piece goods are discharged individually into the container via a slide. The slide is has two rolls in the region of the lower planar section of the conveying area. The rolls are power-operated at speeds that are different from each other, have a great section of the conveying area. The rolls are power-operated at speeds that are different from each other, have a great coefficient of friction on the surface thereof, and provide the piece goods with a defined speed in order for the piece goods to be dropped into the container in a targeted manner, be oriented properly, and be stacked. The closer one roll lies to the discharge end, the greater the speed of said roll is selected relative to another roll. | 05-21-2009 |
20100014706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING BY VALIDATION MATRIX - The present invention relates to a system and method for resolving non-address attributes on a mail piece. The present system uses a mail sorter for sorting and facilitating the obtaining of a scan of the mail piece. The image is then scanned by automatic means to determine whether the non-address attributes can be automatically resolved. In the event of an unsuccessful scan, the image is forwarded to a processor which makes a functional resolution of the non-address attribute, locates example attributes and ranks them, and creates a matrix with the example attribute in the cognitive zone. The matrix is displayed to a coder who then quickly identifies whether or not the attribute and example attribute match. In the event of a non-match, a matrix with a next highest rank example attribute is created and forwarded to the encoder until no more example attributes remain, wherein the entire image is forwarded to the encoder. | 01-21-2010 |
20100140053 | SPACE-SAVING SORTING PLANT AND METHOD FOR SORTING ARTICLES - A sorting plant and method for sorting articles, especially flat mail consignments, include a conveying device, a transfer mechanism and at least one reception device. A conveying transport mechanism of the conveying device transports an article along a conveyor track. The reception device has a plurality of reception components for at least one respective article and a reception transport mechanism. The reception transport mechanism moves the reception components along a reception component track and simultaneously brings one respective reception component of the reception device into a transfer position. The reception component track has a reception segment proceeding vertically or obliquely from the top downward. The transfer mechanism brings an article from the conveying device into one of the reception devices when the article is located at a transfer point on the conveyor track and when this reception component is located in a transfer position with respect to the transfer point. | 06-10-2010 |
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20080270249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING MERCHANDISE INFORMATION - In a method of obtaining merchandise information from a store system using speech processing technology to determine a spoken query entry, an information inquiry from a customer regarding a particular product is received via a communication network. The location of the customer is determined, which is then used to determine a store closest to the customer. A merchandise database is searched for the inquired information regarding the particular product, wherein searching the merchandise database is limited to products available at the store closest to the customer location. The inquired information is retrieved from the merchandise database, and transmitted to the customer. | 10-30-2008 |
20100191675 | WIRELESS POSITIONAL BASED ROUTE TOLLING - A system for determining a distance a vehicle transits within a road system has a mobile device and a main processing unit. The mobile device has a device identification signature and a processing unit to process wireless communication signals received from a network of base stations having positional coordinates, each base station having a base stations identity signature. The processing unit creates data sets containing the base stations identity signatures, and a base station transmits the sequence of data sets. The main processing unit is configured to receive the sequence of data sets and to associate the base stations identification signatures to the positional coordinates of the base stations, to perform trend analysis upon the positional coordinates, to determine a change in trend, to set route positional coordinates at a change in trend, and to determine the distance taking the set route positional coordinates and the road system into account. | 07-29-2010 |
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20100279391 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING CO2 FROM THE ATMOSPHERE - A system for removing gaseous pollutants from air enriched with the pollutants includes a cultivation environment configured to cultivate vegetation under exposure to pollutant enriched air, and a transformation unit configured to transform an encapsulation material to a transitory viscous or liquid state. Further, the system includes a mixing unit configured to combine the vegetation with the viscous or liquid encapsulation material, and a receptacle configured to receive a mixture of vegetation and viscous or liquid encapsulation material, wherein the mixture hardens within the receptacle. | 11-04-2010 |
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20130274955 | Method for analyzing operation characteristics of a vehicle driver - A disclosed method analyzes characteristics of a vehicle driver, especially for insurance purposes. The method is performed by a cooperation of an analyzing vehicle system in a vehicle and a stationary processing unit remote from the vehicle. The analyzing vehicle system determines a driver operation characteristics parameter from the driving vehicle and sends the parameter to the stationary processing unit. The stationary processing unit derives a metric from that parameter as driver operation characteristics. | 10-17-2013 |