Patent ID: 6851610
Filing Date: 2005-02-08
Classification: G02B,G06K,H01S

Abstract:
1. A tunnel-type package identification system for automatically identifying packages transported along a conveyor belt structure, said tunnel-type automatic package identification system comprising: (a) a data communications network having a communication medium supporting the Ethernet networking protocol: (b) a package dimensioning subsystem for dimensioning each said package transported along a conveyor belt structure beneath said package dimensioning subsystem, and producing package dimension data representative of the spatial dimensions of said package with respect to a coordinate reference system; (c) a package identification (PID) unit mounted above said conveyer belt structure in a work environment, and having (d) an image keying station, located remotely from said work environment, and having an Ethernet-over-fiber-optic data communication link operably connected to said communications medium, enabling the operator of said image keying station to visually display images of packages which can not be identified by computer-based image processing, so that the operator may read such images and manually key into a database, information which identifies the package associated with the operator-read image.