Automatic facsimile-receiving-sheet recognizing apparatus

• US 5,340,966 A
• Filed: 10/17/1991
• Issued: 08/23/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morimoto, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Callahan, Timothy P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, TRONG Q
• Application Number:
  US07/778,489
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• Field of Search: 235/470, 235/462, 235/494, 235/381, 235/376, 235/383, 235/385, 358/408, 283/67
• US Class Current: 235/376
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00334 with an apparatus processing barcodes or the like arrangements for sensing record carriers G06K7/00

Abstract

An automatic facsimile-receiving-sheet recognizing apparatus including: a device for automatically receiving facsimile information transmitted from an orderer; a device for detecting the position of a bar code, a mark sheet and a figure in a received sheet and automatically cutting their images; and a device for automatically recognizing the cut bar code, the mark sheet and the figure and transmitting the result of the recognition to a store controller of an automatic order receiving and sales control system.

Claims

1. An automatic facsimile-receiving-sheet recognizing apparatus comprising:

a facsimile means, provided at an orderer side, for transmitting information on an order sheet on which commodity order labels incorporating a bar code and a mark sheet, for commodities to be ordered, are stuck, to a seller side, said order sheet incorporating figures and an address written thereon;

said apparatus further comprising, at said seller side;

information receiving means for receiving said information from said facsimile means;

detecting means, receiving said information from said information receiving means, for detecting positions of said bar code, said mark sheet, said figures and said address from said information received by said information receiving means, and for extracting image data corresponding to said bar code, said mark sheet, said figure and said address in accordance with said detected positions;

a store controller for checking stock inventory;

recognizing means, receiving said image data from said detecting means, for recognizing said image data to produce recognized data;

error detecting means, receiving said recognized data from said recognizing means, for detecting an error or omission in writing, or a part which cannot be recognized, on said order sheet to produce detected data, and for transmitting said recognized data and said detected data to said store controller; and

filing means, receiving said information from said information receiving means, for filing said information for evidence as digital image data.

2. An automatic facsimile-receiving-sheet recognizing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said store controller receives said data corresponding to said address as digital image data in order to prepare a distribution instruction sheet.