Solystic

Christophe Lhomme

Emmanuel Miette

Hicham El Bernoussi

Didier Tresse

Gilles Moussion

A method of processing mailpieces for sorting mailpieces into sequence in a sorting machine depending on delivery points of delivery rounds, in which method the mailpieces are grouped together into batches associated with delivery rounds and are sorted as a function of various sorting plans each associated with a respective batch of mailpieces and defining a list of delivery points of delivery rounds, which method includes the following steps, assessing the batches of mailpieces before the machine sorting to detect those that will under-use the sorting capacities; aggregating the batches of mailpieces detected as under-using the capacity so as to constitute aggregated batches of mailpieces; computing an associated sorting plan resulting from the aggregating; feeding each aggregated batch of mailpieces into the postal sorting machine and controlling the sorting of the mailpieces as a function of the sorting plan computed for said aggregated batch of mailpieces.

Method of processing mailpieces, the method including combining the batches of mailpieces

In a method of processing mailpieces, Customer Applied Identifier (CAI) codes are assigned to the mailpieces by a sender of the mailpieces, and are used by the postal operator while the mailpieces are passing through a postal sorting system. Said CAI codes are recorded in memory in the sorting system in correspondence with first digital fingerprints or image signatures prior to the first pass of the mailpieces through the postal sorting system. While a current mailpiece is passing through the sorting system in a first sorting pass, an image is formed of the surface of the mailpiece that bears a postal address block, and a current fingerprint and location information for locating said mailpiece in the sorting process is derived from the image of said mailpiece. A search is made for a match between said current fingerprint and a first fingerprint recorded in memory in order to retrieve a current CAI code with which said location information is.

Method of processing mailpieces using customer codes associated with digital fingerprints

The method of processing images (IN) including address information by video coding consists in identifying, for each image rejected by a process for automatically evaluating addresses by OCR, a rejection category corresponding to the rejected image by means of a cascade of filters (F&#x2013;F) applied to confidence ratings in the image attribute vector associated with the rejected image, and when the rejection category corresponding to the rejected image is identified at a filter, in causing said filtering to be followed firstly by operator encoding (VC&#x2013;VC) specific to the rejection category so as to add to or modify the image attribute vector associated with the rejected image, and secondly by evaluating (E) the image attribute vector associated with the rejected image so as to be able to decide when to stop video coding for the rejected image.

Method of video coding images comprising address information

The video-coding station for an installation for sorting postal items, in particular packets, steering each packet towards a sorting outlet on the basis of an automatic reading of a postal address (AD) of the packet in a digitized image of the packet, includes a central processor unit, a screen (EC), and a keyboard (CL), and is programmed so as to display an image (IP) so that a video-coding operator (OV) can perform semi-automatic processing of the reading of the address (AD). The station further includes a pointing device (JS) for positioning a reticule (RE) on the center of a zone of the image displayed, and a trigger button (BT) for recording the current position of the reticule so that the operator can rapidly identify the location of the postal address (AD). Such a video-coding station enables an operator to identify rapidly a zone of interest including the postal address, so that the postal address corresponding to the packet can be identified by applying an automatic character-recognition algorithm to the zone of interest.

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Paris, France

Christophe Lhomme