Abstract: A method of identifying transportation items which are physically different from one another, particularly for identifying automatically sortable passenger luggage in air, rail, or ocean travel, using electronically readable information associated with the transportation item.

Abstract: In a speech recognition method, a number of audio signals are obtained from a voice input of a number of utterances of at least one speaker into a pickup system. The audio signals are examined using a speech recognition algorithm and a recognition result is obtained for each audio signal. For a reliable recognition of keywords in a conversation, it is proposed that a recognition result for at least one other audio signal is included in the examination of one of the audio signals by the speech recognition algorithm.

Abstract: A method of identifying transportation items which are physically different from one another, particularly for identifying automatically sortable passenger luggage in air, rail, or ocean travel, using electronically readable information associated with the transportation item.

Abstract: A method and system for reading an address of a mail piece is set out wherein the address face of the mail piece is scanned and decoded to generate an electronically recognizable or readable destination address. If the destination address is not completely decoded, the image of the address face is temporarily stored in a grouping in a database. The grouping is then forwarded to an encoding clerk who has the highest priority and is available for the grouping. The priority of the deck is based on data such as the clerk's measured professional competence. Herein, factors include experience with a particular destination region, success rate, and the like.

Abstract: A method and system for reading an address of a mail piece is set out wherein the address face of the mail piece is scanned and decoded to generate an electronically recognizable or readable destination address. If the destination address is not completely decoded, the image of the address face is temporarily stored in a grouping in a database. The grouping is then forwarded to an encoding clerk who has the highest priority and is available for the grouping. The priority of the clerk is based on data such as the clerk's measured professional competence. Herein, factors include experience with a particular destination region, success rate, and the like.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for automatically controlling aerial photographic cameras. An exact and reliable control device of low electronic and optical cost, which unburdens the operator, is realized by means of two photoreceiver lines positioned parallel to each other and perpendicular to the flight direction. At least the first line is connected to a data memory, which as well as the second line is connected to a correlator. The correlator is connected, via units for calculating the vg/hg ratio and/or the drift, to setting mechanisms of the aerial camera. A third photoreceiver line can also be provided, coupled subsequently to a data memory. The invention is utilizable in photogrammetry.