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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2009
Christophe Caillon, Bretigny sur Orge, FR;
Herve Lagrange, Paris, FR;
Christophe Caillon, Bretigny sur Orge, FR;
Herve Lagrange, Paris, FR;
Solystic, Gentilly Cedex, FR;
Abstract
A method of sorting a plurality of articles (A, B, C), in which each article goes through a sorting installation in at least two passes, comprises the steps of recording the image of each article that is generated during the first sorting pass in a memory and in correspondence with a data item indicating a sorting outlet to which the article is directed during the first sorting pass. If an article is misrouted, a correctly routed reference article is chosen in the vicinity of the misrouted article in the sequence of articles obtained during the last sorting pass, the memory is searched (-) for an image of said correctly routed reference article, and, on the basis of said reference article image, a set of article images grouped together in the memory and that includes the image of the reference article is looked through (-) to identify an image of the misrouted article.