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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2002
David J. Eaton, Newtown, CT (US);
John E. Massucci, Bronx, NY (US);
John P. Miller, Shelton, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and method for fast weighing of items such as mailpieces with variable accuracy. The method includes a scale method having a platform connected to a load cell that provides an output signal to an analog-to-digital converter. The resulting digital output signal is processed by a low pass filter and analyzed by a microprocessor to determine weights of items on the platform. The microprocessor also determines postage amounts of items on the platform. The microprocessor also determines postage amounts as functions of the weights and outputs these postage amounts to a postage meter. The microprocessor determines the weights as the average of a sequence of digital output signal values if the average id not closer than D to any weight break, where D is the difference between a maximum output value and a minimum output value.