KR970001922B1 - Mail automatic printing processing device and method - Google Patents

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Mail automatic printing processing device and method

1 is a block diagram of an automatic mailing processing apparatus of the present invention.

Figure 2a is an example of a postcard according to the present invention.

2b shows an example of a receiver data table according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart of the automatic mail processing method of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: Postcard 2: Number Recognizer

3: input / output controller 4: central controller

5: control data memory 6: input / output interface unit

7: Recipient data memory 8: First data input / output

9: second data input / output unit

The present invention is to automatically print the address, name, and postal code of the recipient by interpreting this code electronically if you enter the specific code promised without specifying the address, postal code, name of the recipient in the specific location of the mail to be sent Automatic mail processing apparatus and method.

Conventionally, if you want to send a mail (letter, postcard parcel, etc.), read the address and name of the recipient, find out the postal code according to the address and find out the postal code, and write the address, name and postal code of the other person in the mail. It is inconvenient because it has to be sent in the mail, especially when sending a large number of mails to a large number of recipients, for example, when sending a postcard to customers for relocation of the office. Since the matters must be sent out every postcard, the amount of mailing is increased, and the inconvenience is further aggravated.

Therefore, the present invention solves the problems in the conventional mailing process described above, and recognizes this character when the sender specifies only a specific specific code (e.g., the phone number of the other party) assigned to each recipient at the promised position of the mail. Mail to facilitate the delivery of a large amount of mail in a short time by finding the recipient from the database and automatically printing the recipient's address, name and postal code, and if necessary a simple message in a standardized location. An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic print processing apparatus and method.

The automatic mailing processing apparatus of the present invention for achieving the above object includes a mailing of a standard in which a specific code promised to distinguish a recipient in place of a recipient and an address, a name, and a postal code is recorded, and recorded in the mail. A recognizing means for reading the recognized code and recognizing it, a control means for finding a recipient corresponding to the code recognized by the recognizing means, and outputting and controlling the address, name and postal code of the recipient, and the address for each recipient corresponding to the code; A storage means for storing the name and postal code and providing the stored information to the control means, and printing the name, address, and postal code of the recipient output from the control means under the control of the control means at a corresponding position of the mail; It consists of printing means.

The automatic postal mail printing processing method of the present invention performed by the automatic postal mail processing apparatus of the present invention configured as described above comprises a first step of recognizing a code recorded and promised at a specific location of a postal mail, A second step of selecting a recipient corresponding to the recognized code by comparing the code with a code of a storage means configured by matching the code with an address, a name and a zip code for each recipient; and the address and name of the recipient selected in the second step In this case, a third process of printing a postal code on a postal mail and outputting the postal code is performed.

Effects of the present invention made as described above are as follows.

The mail used in the present invention does not write the address, name and postal code of the recipient, but instead records the specific code promised for each recipient at the specific location promised by the mail.

This recorded code is for example the recipient's telephone number, and the recorded form is a number. The recognition means optically reads the code recorded at the specific position of the mail as described above, and converts the read image into an electrical signal to recognize the recorded code.

If the recorded code is numeric and the recipient's telephone number, the recognized result will be the recipient's telephone number, i.e. Arabic numerals from 0 to 9.

The control means is provided with the result recognized by the recognition means, and compares this recognition result with the code stored in the storage means.

The storage means stores a specific code promised for each recipient and the address, name and postal code of the recipient corresponding to the code.

Therefore, the control means compares the code for each recipient stored in the storage means with the code recognized by the recognition means, finds a matching code, and if a matching code is found, the name, address and mail of the recipient corresponding to this code are retrieved. Read the number and supply it to the printing means.

The printing means, under the control of the control means, prints the name, address, and postal code of the recipient in the mail's promised position (recipient column in the case of standard envelopes or standard postcards). Wait for processing.

This series of operations is executed in the same successive manner for the next mail item, so that the automatic printing process of the mail item proceeds.

1 to 3 show an embodiment of the automatic postal mail processing apparatus of the present invention as described above, wherein the standardized mail including the specific code is composed of a postcard 1, and the recognition means uses a number. And a control unit comprising an input / output controller (3), a central control unit (4), a control data memory (5), and an input / output interface unit (6). It consists of a data memory (7), and said printing means is comprised of a printer (10), and includes a data input / output device (8) 9 for inputting a user's request and confirming a data processing process.

That is, in the embodiment of the automatic postal mail processing apparatus of the present invention, referring to FIG. 1, the postcard number 1 standardized so that the telephone number can be recorded and the telephone number recorded in the inter-postal card 1 are recorded. A number recognizer 2 that reads optically and converts the optical signal into an electrical signal to recognize a number, data input from the number recognizer 2, data provided to the printer 10, and an input / output interface unit 6; The input / output control unit 3 which controls input / output paths of data input / output, data input / output from the central controller 4, and the recognition result of the number recognizer 2 input through the input / output control unit 3 are used. The central control apparatus 4 which finds the corresponding receiver of the receiver data memory 7 and supplies the result to the printer 10 and the input / output interface unit 6 through the input / output control unit 3, and the central control apparatus. Article 4 Control data memory (5) storing necessary data and programs, and an input / output interface unit (6) connected to the input / output control unit (3) for data transmission to the address data memory (7) and the data input / output unit (8) (9). ), A telephone number for each recipient, a name, address, and a postal code corresponding thereto, and an address data memory 7 for supplying the information to the central controller 4 through the input / output interface unit 6; It consists of a first data input / output unit 8 and a second data input / output unit 9 for inputting and outputting data to and from the central controller 4 via the input / output interface unit 6.

FIG. 2A shows the standard of the postcard 1, which has a telephone number record field 1B of a digit 1A at the upper left of the postcard, and enters the recipient's telephone number in the digit 1A.

In the lower right end of the postcard 1, the address line 1C of the recipient is shown in the first line, the name column 1D of the recipient in the second line, and the postal code field 1E in the third line is a standard.

The above standard is determined according to the standard postcard, and the number of digits 1A in the telephone number record field 1B constitutes the number of digits of the telephone number.

FIG. 2B shows an example of a memory table of the receiver data memory 7, wherein a station number table in which a station number of a telephone number and a pointer value designating address information for each number for the corresponding station number is recorded, and the pointer value. It is composed of an address information table in which a name, an address and a postal code are recorded in the stored address.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of the automatic mail printing processing method of the present invention according to the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2, and the operation and effect of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the following.

First, the user records the recipient's telephone number in each digit 1A of the telephone number field 1B using the postcards standardized as shown in FIG. 2A.

In this example, the recipient's phone number is 430-7519.

In recording the telephone number in this way, for accurate recording of the telephone number (as a countermeasure to increase the recognition accuracy), each segment 1A has a thin line of seven segments that can easily record the number. The user enters the telephone number of the receiver along this line, and the writing method allows the station number and the number to be recorded sequentially from the first digit.

When the telephone number is recorded in the postcard 1, the number recognizer 2 scans the postcard and recognizes the number (number) recorded in each digit 1A of the telephone number record field 1B.

That is, the number recognizer 2 detects whether the postcard 1, which is a mail item, exists on the scanning line, and if the postcard 1 is detected as a result, the telephone number record field 1B is transferred to the standardized postcard 1. It is determined whether the postcard can be read, and if the result of the determination is readable, scanning is carried out in the horizontal direction (x) and the vertical direction (y) of the postcard 1 as shown in FIG. 2a to execute the coordinates (x1, y1) to (x1 + P *). 7) P reads a numeric image up to 1 digit (1A wide) as an optical signal, converts it into an electrical signal, and interprets the numeric pattern, which is recorded in the telephone number record field 1B as an analysis result. Recognize numbers.

As an example, the algorithm for number recognition is an algorithm for recognizing an existing character recognition pattern, that is, a pattern of numbers input by extracting a feature value of an optically read pattern and comparing the feature value with a basic numeric pattern value. It is recognized as a number from 0 to 9 with the highest similarity with.

The number recognizer 2 supplies a signal indicating that it is readable when the number recognition is completed and the recognition result to the central control unit 4 through the input / output control unit 3, and provides translation of the number (search for the corresponding receiver information). In other cases, if the postcard 1 is not a standard postcard according to the present invention or if the number is not read, such as when a number is not recorded in the telephone number record field 1B, a signal indicating that the message cannot be read without a recognition process is provided. Supply to the central control unit 4 via the input and output control unit (3).

The central control unit 4 decodes the input signal of the number recognizer 2 input through the input / output control unit 3 with reference to the control data memory 5.

As a result of the decoding, if it is a signal indicating whether the phone number is readable or not, the printer 10 is notified through the input / output control unit 3, and the postcard 1 is discharged without printing. Using the recognition result, the receiver data memory 7 is searched through the input / output interface unit 6.

That is, in the receiver data memory 7 having the memory table as shown in FIG. 2B, the station number table corresponding to the recognized station number of the telephone number is searched to find the station number, and the address pointer value of each number corresponding to the station number is read. The corresponding address in the address information table designated by this pointer value is found, and the name, address and postal code information of the recipient stored in this address are read.

In other words, by retrieving the data in the receiver data memory 7, the number is translated, the translation result is received, and the input / output control unit 3 receives the name, address, and postal code of the receiver corresponding to the telephone number recorded in the postcard 1; It supplies to the printer 10 through and requests a print output.

Accordingly, the printer 10 prints the name and the postal code in order from the address of the recipient to the recipient position of the postcard as shown in FIG. 2A, and discharges the postcard 1.

In other words, the address of the recipient is printed from (x2, y2) of postcard (1) to (x3, y2), and the line is changed, and the name of the recipient is printed from the (x2, y3) of the next line. To print the postal code of the recipient from the next line (x2, y4).

This series of operations is performed continuously to recognize the telephone number of the postcard (1) as shown in Figure 2a, find the recipient corresponding to the telephone number, and automatically print the name, address and postal code of the found recipient. To give.

In the present invention, the postcard 1 may use a standard envelope or a standardized parcel, and even in this case, recognition and printing of the telephone number are made through the same operation as described above.

However, the scanning coordinates for recognizing a telephone number and the position coordinates of a printing line for printing are different from the standardized mails, and the change of these coordinates is appropriately set according to each standard mail, and the deviation of the position according to the mails is determined. Overcome

As an embodiment of the present invention, the standardized recipient code may be used without using a telephone number.

In this case, the required number of digits is 13 cells. In this case, the number recognizer 2 scans 13 cells and recognizes the scanning result as the recipient's social security number, and the recognized social security number is notified to the central controller 4, The central control unit 4 searches the receiver data memory 7 using the social security number.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the data table structure of the recipient data memory 7 is the resident registration number column when referring to the data structure as shown in FIG. 2B, and the name, address and postal code of the recipient corresponding to the resident registration number are stored. It becomes.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the standardized mail may be configured with a bar code, and the number recognizer 2 may be configured with a bar code recognition device.

In this case, the receiver data memory 7 stores the name, address and postal code of the receiver corresponding to the recognized barcode, and the central controller 4 uses the recognized barcode to store the receiver data memory 7 in the receiver data memory 7. A search is performed and printing is performed by supplying the printer 10 with the name, address and postal code of the recipient corresponding to the barcode.

As another embodiment of the present invention, the code of the standardized mail is written in English alphabet or a specific symbol in which English alphabet and numbers are mixed, for example, the recipient 'Hong Gil Dong' corresponding to the telephone number '430-7519' is 'HKD001'. Promises a character code such as', the number recognizer (2) is implemented by a character recognition device that recognizes the character from the character pattern by extracting the characteristics of the character, the receiver data memory (7) instead of the telephone number By storing in correspondence with the recipient's personal information, the character code is recorded and recognized, and the corresponding recipient can be searched and printed.

On the other hand, in printing the personal information of the recipient in the mail as described above, in order to protect the privacy of the recipient, the entire telephone number record field 1B in the printer 10 is erased with a black bar and then output.

That is, when the telephone number is recorded as the recipient code as shown in FIG. 2a, when printing the address, name, and postal code by the printer 10 (x1, x1 '), the entire line is erased with black bars so that the recipient's number is first. This is to ensure that they are not recognized by third parties, and the same applies to the use of other codes.

Meanwhile, as an embodiment of the present invention, the first data input / output unit 8 and the second data input / output unit 9 may include a keyboard for inputting a command for modifying, deleting, and inquiring the contents of the receiver data memory 7; It consists of a monitor (LCD).

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the telephone number (or barcode, social security number) of the new receiver is input through the keyboard of the first data input / output unit 8, and the name, address and postal code of the receiver are input. It is supplied to the receiver data memory 7 through the input / output interface 6 to add the recipient telephone number, name, address and postal code on the data table as shown in FIG.

Further, the data of the receiver data memory 7 is provided to the monitor of the first data input / output unit 8 via the input / output interface unit 6 so that the receiver's data is displayed on the monitor, and the user views the data and the key is displayed. Use the board to delete and change the receiver.

The second data input / output unit 9 is configured as a modem for communication with other devices.

Therefore, in this example, the communication service company receives data of the same format as the code, name, address, and postal code of the receiver stored in the receiver data memory 7 of the present invention, thereby obtaining a larger amount of recipient information. The information is used to print the recipient's address, name and postal code as described above.

In another embodiment, the second data input / output unit 9 is configured as an auxiliary memory like a floppy disk driver.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the receiver information having the same format as the data format stored in the receiver data memory 7 is stored in the floppy disk, and the information is stored in the central control unit 4 as described above via the input / output interface unit 6. Reads and retrieves and prints the recipient.

On the other hand, as an embodiment of the present invention, a predetermined area is allocated to the receiver data memory 7 and a specific message to be transmitted to the receiver through the keyboard of the first data input / output unit 8 is inputted in this area. In the same way as printing a postal code, the message is printed and printed to the intended recipient so that the same text, such as a previous announcement or a product announcement, can be sent to multiple recipients.

As described above, according to the present invention, when sending a large amount of mail to a plurality of recipients, the inconvenience of writing an address, a name, and a postal code by using a writing instrument for each recipient can be eliminated, and a message can be printed as necessary. It is convenient because it can be sent out by sending a lot of mail automatically, so that it is possible to perform a high speed mail sending operation, and to update the recipient's personal information easily so that it can easily process various information of the recipient. There is.

In addition, in the present invention, by storing the sender in the storage means and by repeatedly printing the sender information in the mail, it is possible to automatically print and send the mail from the same sender to a plurality of recipients, so the envelope or postcard with the sender's address printed separately. There is also an effect that can eliminate the inconvenience of writing the caller without having to buy a.

Claims (12)

A postal code of a standard in which a specific code promised to distinguish the recipient from the address, name, and postal code is recorded, recognizing means for reading and recognizing the code recorded in the postal code, and recognized as the recognizing means. Control means for finding the recipient corresponding to the code and output and control the address, name and postal code of the recipient, the address, name and postal code for each recipient corresponding to the code is stored and providing the stored information to the control means And a printing means for printing the name, address, and postal code of the recipient, outputted from the control means under the control of the control means, to a corresponding position of the mail. The automatic mailing processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code recorded in the mail and recognized by the recognition means is a telephone number. The automatic mailing processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code recorded in the mail and recognized by the recognition means is a social security number. The automatic mailing processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code recorded in the mail and recognized by the recognition means is a character code. The automatic mailing processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code, name, address, and postal code of the recipient stored in the storage means can be updated and stored. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage means stores a message to be printed and sent to the recipient, and the message can be printed by the printing means together with the name, address, and postal code of the recipient. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a keyboard and a monitor capable of inputting commands for correcting, adding, and harmonizing contents stored in said storage means and displaying the contents stored in said storage means and the operation status of said control means. Mail automatic printing processing unit. The postal product according to claim 1, further comprising: a floppy disk driver having recipient print information having the same format as the contents stored in said storage means, supplying this information to said control means, and storing recipient information stored in said storage means. Automatic print processing unit. 2. The postal mail according to claim 1, wherein the postal mail is a postcard 1 standardized to record a telephone number, and the recognition means optically reads the telephone number recorded on the postcard 1 and transmits the optical signal. It consists of a number recognizer (2) for converting the signal into a number, the control means is input and output to the input and output interface unit 6, the data input from the number recognizer 2 and the data provided to the printer 10 Receiver using the recognition result of the input / output control unit 3 which controls the input and output paths of data and data input / output from the central control unit 4, and the number recognizer 2 input through the input / output control unit 3; A central control unit 4 which finds the corresponding receiver of the data memory 7 and supplies the result to the printer 10 and the input / output interface unit 6 through the input / output control unit 3, and the central control unit 4; )of A control data memory 5 storing data and programs necessary for control, and an input / output interface unit connected to the input / output control unit 3 for data transmission to the address data memory 7 and the data input / output unit 8 and 9; 6), and the storage means stores a telephone number for each reception, a name, an address, a postal code corresponding thereto, and the receiver data for supplying the information to the central control unit 4 through the input / output interface unit 6. And a first data input / output unit (8) and a second data input / output unit (9) for inputting and outputting data to the central control unit (4) through the input / output interface unit (6). Mail automatic printing processing unit. A first process of recognizing a code recorded and promised at a specific position of a mail; and a code recognized in the first process, compared with a code of a storage means configured by matching a code, an address, a name, and a zip code for each recipient And a third step of selecting a recipient corresponding to the code, and a third step of printing and outputting the address, name, and postal code of the recipient selected in the second step on the mail. The method of claim 10, wherein the code recognized in the first step is erased with a black bar at the time of executing the third step to protect the privacy of the recipient. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein it is determined whether the code can be recognized in the first step, and if the recipient is not selected in the second step, the mail is not discharged and the mail is discharged without printing. Mail automatic printing processing method.