Patent ID: 11972600
Assignee: TRUMPF WERKZEUGMASCHINEN SE + CO. KG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for automatically identifying an article by associating an image of the article with stored article data, the method comprising:
A) creating the image of the article;
B) extracting image features from the image using a first plurality of interconnected data aggregation routines;
C) extracting article features of a plurality of stored articles from the stored article data using a second plurality of interconnected data aggregation routines;
wherein the method step C) are configured to be carried out before, during, or after method steps A) and B), and
wherein the following method steps are then carried out:
D) comparing the image features to the article features using a third plurality of interconnected data aggregation routines; and
E) outputting association information of the article with one or more stored articles of the plurality of stored articles based on the comparison of the image features to the article features;
wherein each data aggregation routine is configured to aggregate a plurality of ascertained data into a new data packet using a function with weighted variables, wherein the ascertained data comprise image data, article data, or data packets made available by one of the data aggregation routines.