Patent Document ID: 20040233278
Application ID: 10474351
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A read head ( 1 ) for acquiring digital images of postal objects in a postal sorting installation, said read head comprising a high-resolution camera ( 3 ) providing a multiple level gray scale and a low-resolution color camera ( 4 ), said cameras ( 3, 4 ) being disposed in said read head ( 1 ) so as to form simultaneously two separately acquired and superposable digital images of each postal item, said read head being provided with an observation window ( 2 ) through which each of the two cameras ( 3, 4 ) takes a respective image of each postal object, said read head being characterized in that it further comprises a light splitter system ( 5 ) for splitting the light flux from the window and directing it to each of the cameras so that both cameras simultaneously take images of the same object points from the same viewing angle.