Glory Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirofumi Kameyama

Shoji Miki

Kazuhiko Ohnishi

Hiroki Tsubota

Yasuo Fujita

Katsuji Uosaki

A plurality of recognition candidates are obtained through continuing a segmentation to a numeral recognition realized by segments, and an optimum one is selected from among the candidates by means of connection information, thereby preventing continuous numerals from being recognized erroneously. A method of correctly recognizing the handwritten characters, especially numerals written in checks includes the steps of: performing a line drawing analysis is of the character set to be recognized in order to extract a characteristic of the arrangement of blocks, proposing a hypothesis about the monetary unit type, and finally verifying the above hypothesis to display the result of the character recognition. Further, this method can surely distinguish handwritten characters from a bar which is either printed for entry of characters or handwritten, and eliminate the bar from the object of character recognition to extract the characters alone. In detecting the bar, six formulas for under-bar, middle-bar, upper-bar, inclined bar, inclined under-bar and inclined upper-bar relative to the characters are used to determine certainty factor of a bar, and the bar having the highest linearity is extracted.

Character recognizing system

A method for identifying a plurality of handwritten connected figures includes identifying and prioritizing branches of the connected figures. A first recognition block is formed extending a predetermined distance from one end of the connected figures. Branches having the lowest priority within the first recognition block are erased until a recognizable figure is obtained within the first recognition block. Then, a second recognition block is formed extending the predetermined distance from the recognizable figure obtained in the first recognition block. As with the first recognition block, the branches having the lowest priority within the second recognition block are erased until a recognizable figure is obtained within the second recognition block.

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Himeji, Japan

Hirofumi Kameyama