United Parcel Service of America, Inc.

William D Hess

Robert H Esslinger

Mark B Braginsky

Peter R Gluege

Duane E Anderson

Gregory P Skinger

Carl M Skonberg

Scott Alan Loverich

Jonathan C Gray

Paul Loubriel

David Ray Salzman

Devang R Vaidya

Concepts for presenting display features to a user of a system which comprises a display, an acquisition device, and a controller system. In various embodiments, the acquisition device is configured to capture image data of one or more items moving along a conveying mechanism and read item identifiers associated with each item. The system then associates or identifies display features with each item identifier and presents the captured image data with the display features presented on or near the image data of the items.

Concepts for sorting items using a display

The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an article to be sorted can be quickly and easily identified. To accomplish its purpose, the device comprises: feed conveyors; a switching unit; optical readers positioned to capture destination indicia affixed to each article; a detached moving display which remains close to the article to be sorted and presents information representative of the article's destination location; a destination location which signals when a related article is approaching; and a controller capable of assigning destination locations and controlling display devices.

Synchronous semi-automatic parallel sorting

An apparatus and method for illuminating articles, such as parcels, moving beneath a camera on a conveyor belt. Multiple light sources are positioned alongside the conveyor to direct light angled downwardly and from the side of the conveyor. Each light source has an elongated lamp angled with respect to the surface of the article and a light directing device, preferably a Fresnel lens, positioned to receive light from the lamp and to direct the light toward the surface at an angle equal to or greater than forty degrees from an optical axis of the camera.

Illumination system for use in imaging moving articles

A stationary optical scanning system for the decoding of a plurality of optically readable information bearing symbols encoded using at least first and second different optical codes, and for the detection of a plurality of optical targets having at least first and second different target configurations and target data signals representative of the differing target configurations, includes a single optical sensor for optically sensing the different target configurations and optical codes as objects affixed with the information bearing symbols continuously pass within a field of view and for generating the target data signals from the sensed field of view. A first target processor receives the target data signals and detects the first target configuration in accordance with the target data signals to provide a first processor detection signal, and a second target processor separate from the first target processor receives the target data signals and detects the second target configuration in accordance with the target data signals to provide a second processor detection signal. A decoder receives the first and second target processor detection signals and selectively decodes the information bearing symbols in accordance with the received detection signals, wherein the first and second target processors and the decoder are coupled to the single optical sensor.

Method and apparatus for detecting and decoding information bearing

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William D Hess