Produits et services

Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; compact discs, DVDs and other digital recording media; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment, computers; computer software; scanning equipment; hardware and software for scanning equipment; computer hardware and software relating to automation solutions; electronic coding equipment and apparatus; hand-held electronic bar code labelling equipment and apparatus; inspection systems; metal detection systems and equipment; computer systems for pallet labelling. Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software; computer programming; installation, maintenance and repair of computer software; computer software consultancy; design services.

Produits et services

(1) Programmable electronic data acquisition and control apparatus for automated packaging and labelling of products in a production line; electrical control systems for automated process control systems in the field of packaging line operation, including typical devices such and coding, labelling and inspection; digital video and audio recorders for recording, transmission or reproduction of images for automated vision inspection control systems in the field of packaging and labelling; pre-recorded optical discs featuring topics relating to automated packaging lines devices; pre-recorded compact discs and pre-recorded DVDs featuring topics relating to automated packaging and labelling processes and systems; computer software, namely, communication software for the transit and storage of variable coding data for use with industrial coders and labelers, software for controlling packaging equipment, software for controlling printers, labelling printers, product recognition apparatuses, bar code printers and readers, production line equipment, packaging and labelling machines, software for warehouse database management, software that integrates with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and MES (Manufacturing Execution System) systems as well as warehouse management systems for use in the management of data and information, software for production line management, software operating systems for industrial coders and labelers and packaging line devices, software for creating and calculating variable coding data for packaging coding, software for industrial coders and labelers, industrial process control software for the packaging and labelling industries; scanning equipment, namely, bar code scanners, digital input and output scanners, image scanners, optical scanners; computer hardware and software for scanning equipment, namely, bar code scanners, digital input and output scanners, image scanners, optical scanners; hardware and software relating to automation solutions, namely, micro-processor based hardware and software used to monitor the status of packaging and labelling machinery; coding and labelling equipment and apparatus; optical inspection apparatus for analyzing packaging and labelling of products in a production line; metal detection systems and equipment; pallet labelling systems. (1) Scientific and technological services, namely, research and design in the field of computer software and computer hardware for packaging and labelling; industrial analysis and research services in the field of packaging and labelling; design and development of computer hardware and software; computer programming; installation, maintenance and repair of computer software; installation, maintenance and repair of computer software; computer consultancy services; design of computer software for use in the packaging industry and labelling industry.

Abrégé

This specification describes methods and systems for printed code inspection. For instance, the specification describes a computer-implemented method for printed code inspection by a printed code inspection system operating in conjunction with a production line apparatus configured to move objects along a production line comprising: receiving an image of an object to which a printed code comprising one or more printed characters should have been applied, the image having been captured when the object was located at a particular position on the production line; analysing the image to detect, based on a set of one or more character identification parameters, at least one candidate character within the image; determining, for each of the at least one candidate characters and based on a set of one or more candidate character properties, a likelihood that the candidate character is one of the printed characters of the printed code that should have been applied to the object; determining, based on the candidate characters determined as being likely to be one of the printed characters of the printed code that should have been applied to the object, whether the printed code is present and legible on the object; and outputting an indication as to whether the printed code that should have been applied to the object is present and legible on the object.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06K 9/00 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour la lecture ou la reconnaissance de caractères imprimés ou écrits ou pour la reconnaissance de formes, p.ex. d'empreintes digitales
• G06K 9/03 - Détection ou correction d'erreurs, p.ex. par une seconde exploration
• G06K 9/32 - Alignement ou centrage du capteur d'image ou de la zone image
• G06K 9/68 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour la reconnaissance utilisant des moyens électroniques utilisant des comparaisons successives des signaux images avec plusieurs références, p.ex. mémoire adressable
• G06Q 50/28 - Logistique, p.ex. stockage, chargement, distribution ou expédition

Produits et services

[ Apparatus for recording ] [, transmission or reproduction of sound and ] [ images; ] computers; computer hardware; [ data processing apparatus; ] [ calculating machines; ] [ scanners; bar code scanners; digital input and output scanners; optical inspection apparatus; ] [ metal detectors; ] industrial process control software; automated process control system, namely, micro-processor based hardware and software used to monitor the status of packaging machinery; computer software for controlling packaging equipment; computer software for controlling printers, labelling printers, product recognition apparatus, bar code printers and readers, production line equipment, packaging and labelling machines; computer software for warehouse database management; computer software for warehouse management, namely, software that integrates with warehouse management systems for use in the management of warehouse data and information; computer software for production line management; computer software operating systems for industrial coders and labelers; computer software for creating and calculating variable coding data for packaging coding; communications software for the transit and storage of variable coding data for use with industrial coders and labelers; computer software for image design for industrial coders and labelers [ Scientific research; ] scientific and technological services, namely, research and design in the field of computer software for packaging and labelling; [ industrial design services; ] industrial research in the field of packaging and labelling; design and development of computer hardware and computer software; computer programming; design, installation, maintenance and repair of computer software; computer consultation; design of computer software for use in the packaging industry and labelling industry