WO2008119192A1 - Vorrichtung und verfahren zum zählen und erkennen von flächigen produkten - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a device for counting and detecting sheetlike products according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a method for counting and detecting sheetlike products according to claim 9.
- Devices for counting flat products are well-known technical tools to determine the number of flat products. Upon detection of a deviation between an expected number of sheets and the number determined by the meter, corresponding error correction processes may be initiated. In counting devices optical sensors are often used to detect the number of flat products contactlessly and quickly.
- Counting devices are disclosed, for example, in EP-AI 661 833 and WO 2007/012206.
- flat products transported in brackets are equipped with identification information which is subjected to an optical-electronic control when the flat products move past at a control point. Images of the identification information are registered by means of an image recording device. The captured images are processed electronically and, as a result of this processing, control signals are generated for downstream processing devices.
- the planar products must additionally be provided with identification information which is then to be detected in an image acquisition process which is frequently dependent on ambient lighting. Completely flat adjacent products are not counted in this way or only with great effort.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a counting device and a method for counting sheet-like products, which makes it possible to reliably and reliably determine the number of sheet-like products with as little effort as possible.
- the device according to the invention for counting and detecting sheet-like products in particular of
- Printed products has a light source, an optical sensor and an evaluation unit connected to the optical sensor.
- the light source in a preferred embodiment, a laser, has a beam shaping optics, for example in the form of optical
- Lenses in particular of cylindrical lenses, of diaphragms or diffractive optical elements, by which the emitted light is a predetermined
- Illuminated beam profile is "impressed". Within the lighting beam profile objects are with
- the light source can over the Strahlforr ⁇ ungsoptik be associated with an optical axis extending straight from the light source in space.
- this optical axis simultaneously forms a central beam axis of the illumination beam profile and is also referred to below as an illumination beam axis.
- the optical sensor in a preferred embodiment for example an electronic camera with a plurality of photosensitive elements, is equipped with a detection optical system for forming a detection beam profile.
- detection optics for example, a camera lens is used.
- the detection beam profile includes all the locations from which the optical sensor can detect light.
- the detection beam profile of the optical sensor is composed of the individual detection beam profiles associated with each individual photosensitive element.
- the detection beam profile of the optical sensor could be visualized by replacing the photosensitive elements with small light sources.
- an optical axis can also be assigned to the optical sensor via the detection optics. For the purposes of this application, this optical axis simultaneously forms a central beam axis of the detection beam profile and is also referred to below as a detection beam axis.
- the illumination beam profile and the detection beam profile according to the invention are aligned in an angular offset from one another such that they are in one
- the illumination beam axis and the detection beam axis are even in a plane.
- at least a portion of the surface profile of the sheet-like products must be in the detection area.
- This section is according to the invention at least partially limited by the illumination beam profile and detectable by means of the optical sensor.
- the optical sensor may generate a detection signal with information about the detected portion of the surface profile.
- the detection signal is forwarded to a downstream evaluation unit.
- the evaluation unit preferably a computer, can use the detection signal to determine the number of areal products which were located in the detection area at the time of detection.
- the apparatus for counting and detecting sheet-like products is assigned a transport device.
- the flat products which are moved through the detection area along a transport direction by means of the transport device are preferably continuously counted in order, for example, to check their completeness.
- the illumination beam axis is preferably aligned inclined relative to the surface normal of, for example, resting on a conveyor belt or transported by means of brackets or grippers flat products.
- the illumination beam profile in the detection area is preferably formed by means of the beam shaping optics as a substantially rectilinear region, in particular as a so-called illumination line, which defines the section of the surface profile of the planar products in a defined manner illuminated.
- the illumination line extends substantially parallel to the transport direction.
- a camera as an optical sensor.
- the detection beam profile is formed by the detection optics such that an image of the light line projected onto the surface of the planar products by the light source is generated on the photosensitive elements of the camera.
- a computer-executable image processing program can then determine from the image of the projected illumination line on the basis of the curvatures and paragraphs the number of planar products that have been in the detection area.
- the recording or detection time is short compared to the time within which a flat product has moved by the amount of its thickness.
- the number of surface products located in the detection area is determined solely from the detected surface profile of the sheet-like products. It is not necessary to attach identification information to the sheet products. Due to the relative to the ambient light comparatively high intensity of the light generated by the light source in the illumination beam profile, in particular within the illumination line in the detection area, there is sufficient contrast in the image recordings, so that a reliable identification of the illuminated surface profile is guaranteed.
- the optical sensor may be provided with corresponding filter elements to further reduce the interference of ambient light.
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the inventive device for counting and detecting sheet products with an associated, the sheet products by means of staples transporting transport device, wherein a laterally arranged from the planar products laser light source illuminating a line to the surface through a detection area transported flat products projected and one above the two-dimensional products camera detects thereby illuminated surface profile;
- Fig. 2 is a side view of a portion of another embodiment of an associated
- Transport device in each of which two flat products each held by a gripper are transported along a transport direction and a further sensor of the device for counting and detecting of sheet-like products detects the past-moving gripper to a previously determined number of area by means of a trigger signal generated by the further sensor Be able to assign products to a specific gripper;
- FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a section of the device shown in FIG. 1, the transported flat products now being transported in a flake arrangement resting on a conveyor belt through the detection area;
- FIG. 4 shows a side view of a section of a further embodiment of an associated transport device with flat products held individually or in pairs on grippers;
- Fig. 5a-5e abstracted images of hanging on grippers transported through the detection area flat products, wherein illuminated by the illumination line
- Surface profiles drawn in dashed lines and the respective schemati Service side views of the sheet-like products are merely auxiliary shown.
- FIG. 10 A particularly preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention for counting and detecting sheet-like products (also referred to below as counting device) 10 with a transport device 12 assigned to it is shown schematically in FIG.
- the light source 16 preferably lasers, in particular laser diodes or gas lasers, LEDs, but also classical radiation sources, such as incandescent or halogen lamps, can be used.
- the light source 16 is equipped with beam shaping optics 22 which provide a predetermined illumination beam profile 24 and define an optical axis of the light source 16.
- the illumination beam profile 24 of the light source 16 arranged laterally to a transport direction T along which the planar products 14 are transported has a cross section (also beam cross section) with a substantially line-like, at least partially rectilinear, preferably substantially rectilinear shape.
- the beam cross section is at right angles to the optical axis of the light source 16, hereinafter also called illumination beam axis 26, measured.
- the line-like, preferably straight beam cross-section is also referred to as the illumination line.
- the illumination beam profile 24 with its line-like beam cross-section extends substantially in one plane.
- Elongated, essentially line-like beam cross-sections can be produced with known beam-shaping optics 22, which are equipped, for example, with cylindrical lenses, diaphragms or diffractive elements.
- the illumination beam profile 24 preferably has a higher light intensity than the ambient light, at least in a detection area defined below.
- the light source 16 preferably provides substantially monochromatic light, such as that produced by lasers, single color LEDs, or classic light sources equipped with filters. In this way, it is possible to distinguish the light generated by the light source 16 and scattered by the planar products 14 and detected by the optical sensor 18 from the ambient light, both because of its intensity and its spectral range, and thus reliable detection and counting of the sheet-like products 14 to ensure.
- an electronic camera with a plurality of photosensitive elements for example a CCD camera
- the optical sensor 18 is provided with a detection lens 28 in the form of a camera lens which provides a detection beam profile 30 and defines an optical axis of the optical sensor 18.
- the optical axis of the optical sensor 18 will hereinafter be referred to as the detection beam axis 32.
- the optical sensor 18 is arranged above the sheet-like products 14, so that an image of the light line projected onto the flat products 14 on the photosensitive elements of the optical sensor 18 is generated by means of the detection optics 28.
- the illumination beam profile 24 of the light source 16 and the detection beam profile 30 of the optical sensor 18 are aligned with angular offset from each other so that they overlap in a detection area in which there is at least a portion 33 of a surface profile of the sheet products 14 for counting.
- the located in the detection area and thus illuminated portion 33 of the surface profile is at least partially limited by the predetermined illumination beam profile 24.
- a scattering angle ⁇ included by the illumination beam axis 26 and the detection beam axis 32 is preferably between 10 ° and less than 180 °, more preferably between 30 ° and 45 °.
- the arrangement in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 the
- Light source 16 may be arranged laterally with respect to the flat products 14 such that the longitudinal axis of the
- Transport direction T is aligned.
- the illumination line preferably extends over an edge region of the sheet-like products 14, in folded flat products 14 preferably over their
- the optical sensor 18 can be arranged both above and laterally from the flat products 14.
- the illustrated positions of light source 16 and optical sensor 18 are also interchangeable.
- the Detect 'ionsstrahlachse 32 and the illumination beam axis 26 is preferably inclined to the surface normal of the flat products 14 and oriented at right angles to the transport direction T.
- the basic principle of the counting device 10 is that the known in their form, substantially rectilinear illumination line is projected onto an uneven by the thickness and / or arrangement of the sheet 14 products section 33 of the surface profile of the sheet products 14 and at a staggered detection, the height changes the surface profile of the sheet-like products as curvatures and paragraphs in the capture of the optical sensor 18 image of the illumination line can be detected.
- the from the. optical sensor 18 detected illuminated portion 33 of the surface profile of the sheet products 14 is in the considered embodiment, in which a camera is used as an optical sensor 18, as an image recording.
- the image information is forwarded by means of a detection signal via an electrical connection to the evaluation unit 20, for example a computer.
- Computer program in particular by means of an image processing program, the relevant information extracted from the detection signal via the detected portion 33 of the surface profile and assigned found curvatures, edges and paragraphs of a certain number of planar products 14.
- the relevant information about the surface profile disturbing additional information still present in the images, for example signs and images visible on the surface of the planar products 14 due to the ambient light, can be filtered out by known discrimination methods.
- FIGS. 1 and 3 A surface profile scanned by means of the counting device according to the invention is represented in FIGS. 1 and 3 by dashed lines, which are provided with the reference symbol A.
- the sheet-like products 14 are transported in Fig. 1 by means of the counting device 10 associated transport means 36 in the form of brackets.
- two flat products 14 are each held by one transport means 36 in such a way that a flat product 14 leading in the transport direction T extends further into a clamp mouth of the transport means 36, as a trailing further flat product 14 partially resting on the leading flat product 14.
- the respective transport means 36 themselves can, as also shown in Fig. 1, by another sensor
- a transport means 36 passes through a monitoring area of the further sensor 38, a trigger signal is generated by the further sensor 38 and forwarded to the evaluation unit 20.
- the transport speed of the transport means 36 can Now the number of detected at a given time surface products 14 are each assigned to a particular transport 36.
- a predetermined target number of flat products which should be held by a transport means 36 is now determined whether errors in the placement of the transport means 36 or the transport have occurred, so that, for example, a corresponding control signal can be triggered to a downstream processing device -.
- the used for the assignment further sensor 38 is also shown in Fig. 2. It can be seen in the transport direction T, both before the counting device 10 and after the counting device 10 may be arranged. In the embodiment of the transport device 12 shown in FIG. 2, in each case two flat products 14 are held completely one above the other by conveying means 36 designed as grippers.
- FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of a transport device 12 with a conveyor belt as transport means 36.
- the sheet-like products 14 are transported with their collar 34 in the transport direction T leading in an imbricated formation on the transport means 36 resting through the detection area of the counting device 10.
- the surface profile A of the planar products 14 scanned by the counting device 10 is represented by a dashed line.
- the optical sensor 18 In an arrangement of the optical sensor 18 such that its detection beam axis 32 is aligned substantially along the longitudinal axis of the collar 34 of the planar products 14, the abstracted image recordings shown in FIGS. 5a to 5e could have been recorded.
- the illumination beam axis 26 of the light source 16 is directed from the top to the camera-side free end region of the collar 34 and advantageously extends at least nearly parallel to product pages 40 of the sheet 14.
- the illumination beam axis 26 and the detection beam axis 32 span here a plane that is in the Substantially perpendicular to the transport direction T extends.
- FIGS. 5 a to 5 e in addition to the sections 33 of the surface profiles illuminated by the illumination line, which are shown as dashed lines, the side views of the respectively scanned planar products 14 are also shown in the abstracted image recordings for clarity. It is shown on the basis of these exemplary abstracted image recordings that flat products 14 transported by means of grippers or clamps individually (FIG. 5 a), in pairs (FIGS. 5 b, 5 c and 5 e) or also in a multiple arrangement, for example in a threes (FIG. 5 d), can be transported and counted. As shown in FIGS. 5b and 5e, detection and counting are possible both with flat products 14 (FIG. 5c and FIG.
- the optical quality of the image recordings and thus the reliability of the counting that the camera acting as the optical sensor 18 records image recordings within a time that is shorter , is preferably much shorter than the time within which a sheet product 14 moves by the amount of its thickness in the detection area.
- the reliability of the counting can be increased if, as previously mentioned, the light intensity of the light source 16 is increased relative to the ambient light or a filter tuned to the wavelength of the light emitted by the light source 16 is used in the optical sensor 18 , In addition, it is by an increase in the angle ⁇ between the illumination beam axis 26 and the detection beam axis 32, it is possible to increase the curvatures, edges and heights in the images of the illuminated surface portions 33.
- the counting device 10 according to the invention and the method according to the invention for counting sheet-like products 14 make it possible to count surface products 14 that are suitable and reliable for a variety of transport formats of sheet-like products 14 with moderate equipment complexity.
- the sheet-like products 14 can be transported during detection and counting be, with the amount of transport speed is limited by the shortest possible recording time of the optical sensor 18, in which, despite resulting from the transport movement artifacts in the image recordings a reliable count possible.
- both the illumination beam profile 24 and the detection beam profile 30 can be adapted to the specific needs. It is thus possible to project a plurality of illumination lines or also time-varying patterns of illumination lines onto the surface of the planar products 14 and to detect them by means of the optical sensor 18. It is important that the located in the detection area surface portion 33 of the sheet products 14 is at least partially limited by the predetermined illumination beam profile 24.
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