Patent ID: 7938323

Claim:
A method for monitoring a transportation process by means of which a luggage item is transported, which comprises the steps of: producing at least one computer-accessible image of the luggage item, the at least one computer-accessible image of the luggage item being produced such that it shows the luggage item when illuminated with light in a range visible to humans; producing a data record for the transportation process containing the at least one computer-accessible image; storing the data record in a data storage unit; taking the luggage item to a checking device; searching the data storage unit at least once for the data record for the transportation process; and showing at least one image which is included in a data record which has been found on a display unit, the image in the data record found is shown on the display unit such that a check becomes possible to determine whether the image shown on the display unit actually shows the luggage item in the checking device or another luggage item; wherein the data record for the luggage item is complemented by a coding for a destination to which the luggage item needs to be transported, and a coding for a time at which the at least one image was produced, and the searching step involves a destination and a time period being prescribed and being compared with the destination codings and time codings of the stored data records.