Method and apparatus of automated optical container code recognition with positional identification for a transfer container crane
AssigneePaceco Corp.
InventorsToru Takehara, Maxwell King, Chingyei Chung
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Abstract
A method and system providing a transfer container crane with container code recognition of a container identified by a container code to a container inventory management system is disclosed. The system and method are capable of performing these tasks without the use of non-standard container tagging.
Claims13
A method providing container code recognition from a transfer container crane of a container identified by a container code to a container inventory management system, comprising the steps of:
- generating an optical characteristic of said container code based upon at least one video imaging device mechanically coupled to said transfer container crane;
- generating a positional identification of said container;
- and
- sending said optical characteristic of said container code and said positional identification of said container to said container inventory management system.
A program system implementing the method of claim 1 by controlling a computer through a collection of program steps implementing the steps of claim 31,
- wherein said program steps reside in a memory accessibly coupled with said computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.