Patent ID: 8706290

Claim:
A method for transporting a set of items, wherein each item of the set passes through a sorting system at least once, comprising: predetermining a destination point for each item of the set and for each further item which passes through the sorting system; generating for each item which passes through the sorting system a current image of the item from a predetermined viewing direction, the current image showing the destination point of the item; determining the predetermined destination point of the item; initiating a transport of the item to the destination point which is determined in each case; transmitting a computer-readable description of the set from a data processing system of a consignor to a data processing system which is connected to the sorting system, wherein the description includes a reference image of the item from the viewing direction and does not comprehend a destination point; and for each item which passes through the sorting system, automatically deciding by the data processing system whether or not the item belongs to the set, wherein the data processing system compares the generated current image of the item with the reference image; and wherein a plurality of attributes is specified which characterizes an image of an item passing through the sorting system, wherein a current attribute vector is calculated in each case for each item which passes through the sorting system, comprising the values which these attributes assume for the generated current image of the item, and wherein the data processing system calculates a reference attribute vector comprising the values which these attributes assume for the reference image that was sent, calculates a separation between the reference attribute vector and the current attribute vector and, if this separation is greater than a predetermined limit, decides that the item does not belong to the set.