System and method for quality assurance
First Claim
1. A quality assurance method in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver;
- said method including;
providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon;
providing a Pick List in the form of an electronic record identifying what ones of said group of individual packages should be;
imaging said group of individual packages to provide an electronic image suitable for further processing, said electronic image including some or all of said visual identifiers;
processing said electronic image to extract information from said some or all of said visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in said group to provide an Electronic Pick List; and
correlating said Electronic Pick List with said Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between said group of individual packages and what ones of said group of individual packages should be.
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Abstract
A quality assurance method is disclosed in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver; the method includes providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon; a Pick List in the form of an electronic record identifying what ones of the group of individual packages should be is also provided; the group of individual packages are imaged to provide an electronic image suitable for further processing, the electronic image includes some or all of the visual identifiers; the electronic image is processed to extract information from the some or all of the visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in the group to provide an Electronic Pick List; and the Electronic Pick List is correlated with the Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between the group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be. The disclosed method also includes the step of correcting the relationship between the group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be to provide a corrected group of individual packages. The disclosed quality assurance method also includes the step of sending the corrected group of individual packages to the receiver at a remote location. The disclosed quality assurance method also includes the steps of: providing a remote Pick List in the form of a second electronic record identifying what ones of the group of individual packages should be; imaging the corrected group of individual packages at the remote location to provide a remote electronic image suitable for further processing, the remote electronic image including some or all of the visual identifiers; processing the remote electronic image to extract information from the some or all of the visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in the corrected group to provide a remote Electronic Pick List; and correlating the remote Electronic Pick List with the remote Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between the corrected group of individual packages and what ones of the group of individual packages should be.
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28 Claims
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1. A quality assurance method in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver;
- said method including;
providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon;
providing a Pick List in the form of an electronic record identifying what ones of said group of individual packages should be;
imaging said group of individual packages to provide an electronic image suitable for further processing, said electronic image including some or all of said visual identifiers;
processing said electronic image to extract information from said some or all of said visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in said group to provide an Electronic Pick List; and
correlating said Electronic Pick List with said Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between said group of individual packages and what ones of said group of individual packages should be. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
- said method including;
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8. The quality assurance method as defined in claim I wherein said information relating to the relationship between said group of individual packages and what ones of said group of individual packages should be is provided from said electronic image together with a mark relating thereto.
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18. A quality assurance method in which individual packages are selected and grouped together according to what is to be sent to a specific receiver;
- said method including;
providing a group of individual packages at least a plurality of which have visual identifiers thereon;
sending said group of individual packages to said receiver at a remote location;
providing a remote Pick List in the form of a second electronic record identifying what ones of said group of individual packages should be;
imaging said group of individual packages at said remote location to provide a remote electronic image suitable for further processing, said remote electronic image including some or all of said visual identifiers;
processing said remote electronic image to extract information from said some or all of said visual identifiers relating to the individual packages in said group to provide a remote Electronic Pick List; and
correlating said remote Electronic Pick List with said remote Pick List to provide information relating to the relationship between said group of individual packages and what ones of said group of individual packages should be. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
- said method including;
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23. A system comprising:
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a container having a multiplicity of objects thereon, wherein at least one of said multiplicity of objects has an imagable identifier affixed thereto;
a container reader to image said multiplicity of objects to provide an image; and
an analyzer for determining, from said image and from a user-defined description of objects that were expected to be associated with said container, if said container has the expected objects. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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