Patent application EP17170981A (EP), filed 2017-05-15
Publication number: EP3255569A1
Title: ADDRESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ADDRESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Abstract: An address information management system includes: a recognizing portion (22) configured to recognize address information including a plurality of pieces of specific information provided on a delivery object (P), based on an image obtained by a photography portion (14) for photographing the delivery object (P); an address specifying portion (24) configured to use the address information recognized by the recognizing portion (22) to search an address database (DB) in which an address information list is registered, the address database including information associating official names of the specific information and aliases of the specific information, and specify the address information provided on the delivery object (P) based on information obtained through the search; a deriving portion (28) configured to derive the number of times that the aliases appeared or a frequency of appearance of the aliases based on specifying results obtained by the address specifying portion (24); and an updating portion configured to update the information associating the official names in the specific information with the aliases of the address database (DB) based on the number of times that the aliases appeared or the frequency of appearance thereof derived by the deriving portion (28).
IPC codes: G06F  17/    30            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: An address information management system comprising:
number: 2
text: The system according to claim 1,
wherein the updating portion (32) is configured to execute, as the updating, deletion of an alias of the specific information associated with an official name of the specific information registered in the address database (DB), based on the number of times that this alias appeared or the frequency of appearance thereof derived by the deriving portion (28).
number: 3
text: The system according to claim 2,
wherein the updating portion (32) is configured to perform the deletion if the number of times that the alias appeared or the frequency of appearance of the alias derived by the deriving portion (28) is smaller than or equal to a threshold value.
number: 4
text: The system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising<:>a display (8) configured to display information including the number of times that the aliases appeared or the frequency of appearance of the aliases derived by the derivation unit (28).
number: 5
text: The system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:
number: 6
text: The system according to claim 5,
wherein the updating portion (32) is configured to update the information associating the official names of the specific information with the aliases of the address database (DB), based on the number of times that the aliases appeared or the frequency of appearance of the aliases in each predetermined period totaled by the totaling portion (30).
number: 7
text: The system according to claim 5 or 6, further comprising:
number: 8
text: The system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising:
number: 9
text: The system according to any one of claims 1 to 8,
wherein the deriving portion (28) is configured to derive the number of times that alias candidate specific information that is different from the official names and the aliases appeared or a frequency of appearance of this alias candidate specific information based on the specification results obtained by the address specifying portion (24), and the updating portion (32) is configured to associate the alias candidate specific information with the information associating the official names in the specific information with the aliases in the address database (DB) based on the number of times that the alias candidate specific information appeared or the frequency of appearance of the alias candidate specific information derived by the deriving portion (28).
number: 10
text: An address information management system comprising:
number: 11
text: The system according to claim 10,
wherein the second communications portion (52) is configured to transmit, to the first apparatus (1A), the content of an update determined by the update determining portion (56), the first communications portion (40) is configured to receive the content of an update determined by the update determining portion (56) and transmitted by the second communications portion (52), and the first apparatus (1A) further comprises an updating portion (32) configured to update the information associating the official names of the specific information with the aliases of the specific information in the address database (DB) based on the content of an update received by the first communications portion (40).
number: 12
text: The system according to claim 10 or 11, comprising a plurality of the first apparatuses (1A),
wherein the update determining portion (56) in the second apparatus (50) is configured to determine the content of an update of the information associating the official names of the specific information with the aliases of the specific information in the address database (DB) based on the information including the number of times that the aliases appeared or the frequency of appearance of the aliases transmitted by the first communications portion (40) in the plurality of first apparatuses (1A).
number: 13
text: An address information management program that causes a computer to:
number: 14
text: An address information management program that causes a computer to:
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-12-13
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
Prior art cited: ref_id: US2001054031A1
ref_type: patent
severity: background
ref_id: US2011033083A1
ref_type: patent
severity: background
ref_id: US2001054031
ref_type: patent
severity: novelty_destroying
ref_id: US2011033083
ref_type: patent
severity: background
Final disposition: pending (2017-12-13)