Solystic

Cyrille Prudhomme

Hicham El Bernoussi

Claude Mitte

Agnés Gamez Cuatzin

Etienne Fesquet

Agnes Gamez Cuatzin

The method of detecting single postal items and multiple overlapping postal items in a postal sorting installation consists in analyzing images () representing postal items () viewed from in front, and in applying to each image an outline-extracting process () in order to recognize items () having an outline () of substantially constant height as being single items. In this method, the reliability with which single items is detected is improved, and the digital image used for analysis purposes can be the digital image which is also used for optical character recognition processing in the postal sorting installation.

Method for detecting single postal covers and postal covers stuck together in a mail sorting machine

The read head () for a postal sorting installation serves to pick up a digital image of each postal object using a high-resolution camera () providing a multiple level gray scale. The read head also has a low-resolution color camera (), the two cameras () being placed in such a manner as to acquire simultaneously two superposable digital images of each postal object. The superposable high-resolution gray scale image and low-resolution color image are intended to be combined in order to provide a high-resolution color image.

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Champigny sur Marne, France

Cyrille Prudhomme