Arrangement for, and method of, loading freight into a shipping container

A plurality of three-dimensional (3D) cameras is deployed about a zone through which freight is conveyed to a shipping container. The 3D cameras have sensors with fields of view over which a plurality of point clouds of voxels are captured from the freight. A server combines the point clouds to obta...

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Main Authors Brown, Patrick Martin, Nanda, Chinmay, Seiter, Paul, Swope, Charles B
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.07.2020
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONVEYING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PACKING
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS
STORING
TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:A plurality of three-dimensional (3D) cameras is deployed about a zone through which freight is conveyed to a shipping container. The 3D cameras have sensors with fields of view over which a plurality of point clouds of voxels are captured from the freight. A server combines the point clouds to obtain a composite point cloud of the freight, encloses the composite point cloud with a bounding box having dimensions, and dimensions the freight from the dimensions of the bounding box. An optional scale weighs the freight while it is being dimensioned and moved through the zone.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201615078074