METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING THE RELATIVE POSITION OF INTERNAL CONTENT MATERIAL IN A MAILPIECE FABRICATION SYSTEM

Patent №

US 9,714,102

Granted

2017-07-25

Filed 2012

Owner

PITNEY BOWES INC.

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13646290

A method and system for dynamically adjusting the placement of internal content material to optimally position the content material relative to a wrapped enclosure, and obviate the requirement to out-sort the assembled envelope. Upon assembly, a detection system visually images each envelope in predetermined regions of interest (ROIs). A controller captures the image data for comparison with a set of predefined position data and issues a feedback signal indicative of a directional change which drives an error signal to zero. The correction signal is used by the phase nip roller assembly to adaptively adjust the position of the content material by incrementally adjusting, advancing or retarding, the phase-nip roller assembly, i.e., forward or aft. A predefined number of envelopes is selected to acquire a running average of the image data.

VisionPlanningB65B 11/06B65B 25/14B65B 51/023B65B 57/06G07B 17/00467B65B 9/067G07B 2017/00491G07B 2017/00669

AI classification

Planning0.98
Vision0.85
Natural language0.16
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

PITNEY BOWES INC.

assignment · 292530721

Assignors

SUSSMEIER, JOHN W, PADROS, XAVIER

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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