Method for the physical, in particular optical, detection of at least one usage object

An apparatus for the physical, in particular optical, detection of at least one usage object, wherein the apparatus comprises:

• at least one processing unit comprising a smart phone or tablet, by which a usage object and/or an identification that is uniquely, preferably biuniquely, associated with the usage object, can be physically detected, from which at least one characteristic value of the usage object may be obtained, and wherein further
• the processing unit and/or a CPU is adapted and intended for carrying out a usage object classification insofar as a characteristic value of the usage object can be compared with at least one in a database of the processing unit and/or with a database of an external CPU, and the processing unit and/or the CPU and/or the user him/herself selects a database object corresponding to the characteristic value and displays it on a screen of the processing unit, so that a camera image of the usage object together with the database object can be shown on the screen at least partially optically superimposed and/or juxtaposed,
• wherein
• the characteristic value is a real number greater than 0, or is made up of several characteristic sub-values in which first characteristic sub-value has a first weighting factor, a second characteristic sub-value has a second weighting factor, and a third characteristic sub-value has a third weighting factor, according to the following formula:
• K=G1*K1+G2*K2+G3*K3,
• wherein the values K1 to K3 represent the respective sub-values and the factors G1 to G3, which represent real positive numbers, each identify weighting factors of the characteristic sub-values;
• and
• using the processing unit and/or the CPU, at least one physical detection process of the usage object can be carried out, in particular at least one photograph, on the basis of the database object shown on the screen, so that the user detects the usage object in such a way that an image of the usage object that is detected by the detection process, is shown at the same time with the database object shown on the screen in an identical manner or in a manner identical to scale, wherein as a result of the detection process, the usage object can be associated with at least a usage object class wherein the usage object class is a vehicle type by the processing unit and/or the CPU and/or the user.