SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY COUNTING BUNDLED ITEMS

摘要

A system and method for automatically counting a bundled group of metal rods, bars, angles or other items having discernible configuration portions includes a imaging device, such as digital camera, a computer and a computer algorithm that processes images form the imaging device and counts the number of discernible configurations in the image. The item count is generated by the computer algorithm whereby an inventory system, for tracking the stocked units of the discernible configuration is updated responsive to the output from the computer algorithm.