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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
May. 01, 2008
Jean-francois Mermet, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, FR;
Bernard Pucci, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR;
Pierre Secondo, Tourrettes sur Loup, FR;
Jean-Francois Mermet, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, FR;
Bernard Pucci, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR;
Pierre Secondo, Tourrettes sur Loup, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Detecting whether an article has been loaded or unloaded for example from a ship by tracking the movements of a transducer such as an RFID tag attached to the article in space, and comparing the tracked movements with a trajectory envelope characterizing the movements associated with a load or unload action, and in the case where the movements of the article are found to comply with the trajectory envelope, registering the article as present in the predetermined volume.