Patent ID: 7474212

Claim:
A device for processing an object with an RFID tag attached, comprising: a robot control unit for controlling a sorting robot; an object having an object main body, an RFID tag provided with the main body and a display unit provided with the main body to display an optical attribute information of the object, the RFID tag being configured to output a response only when stored ID information and received ID information are coincident, and not to output the response when the stored ID information and the received ID information are not coincident; a video camera for recognizing the optical attribute information by reading the display unit when the object is located at a prescribed position; and a controller and a radio communication unit connected to the video camera, the controller and radio communication unit for accessing a plurality of RFID tagged objects by using the optical attribute information corresponding to the received ID information when the video camera recognizes the optical attribute information, the controller and radio communication unit only communicating with one of the plurality of RFID tags which has responded, wherein the controller has a function of analyzing a size, a color, and a shape of the object, obtaining article identification information, and transmitting the article identification information to the robot control unit.