Mail piece identification using bin independent attributes

Details Mail piece identification using bin independent attributes Mail piece identification using bin independent attributes

2008-08-13

2011-12-27

Lu, Tom Y (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Mail processing

Reexamination Certificate

active

08085980

ABSTRACT:
An attribute-based system and method for mail piece identification includes generating and storing, during a first mail sorting operation, a first set of attribute information that can include an image fingerprint derived from a portion of an image of the mail piece. Then, in a subsequent mail sorting operation, a second image of the mail piece can be obtained and used, in part, to generate a second set of attribute information that may be compared to records in a mail piece database in order to identify the mail piece.

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