Tokyo Keiki Company Limited

Jidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Koji Ito

Hisao Hayashi

Yukiho Murata

Akira Kondo

Yosinori Isii

Masanori Onishi

A wiper unit comprises a wiper motor provided with a motor yoke and a gear case screwed to the motor yoke, a motor arm, a wiper frame, a pivot shaft, a pivot arm and a link connecting rod. The gear case of the wiper motor is formed with a frame-holder portion having a semi-circular cross section to be fitted with the wiper frame for supporting the wiper frame, and the wiper frame is secured to the frame-holder portion of the gear case by, for example, tightening a screw.

Wiper unit

An apparatus for a printed character reading system in which prior to the recognition process, the information obtained by reading the characters on a source document is separated line by line to obtain a line information and then, starting at its one end, the line information is successively separated character by character to obtain a character information for each of the individual characters. In this apparatus, the read character information is stored primarily character by character each for approximately one and a half line width and the 1.5-line information is then dissected in the line direction into blocks each having a line length of two character spacings. Then, a linewise projection information is produced for each of the blocks so that in accordance with the resulting projection information the intended line information is separated into blocks and then the character information for the respective characters are separated successively from the character information contained in each of the blocks.

Character information separating apparatus for printed character reading

Stored in a two-dimensional memory is a read-in character information of one character which was scanned by an optical scanner and digitized into character digital bits and background digital bits. The character information on the storage plane of the memory is divided into a plurality of segments using 4.times.4 bit meshes as a unit and the number of the character digital bit meshes included in each of the segments is counted. A collection of segment information obtained from these count values is used as an input information and is compared by pattern matching with each of a collection of standard character information preliminarily prepared for a set of characters in the same information form as the input information, thereby effecting the desired type font character recognition.

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Yokohama, Japan

Koji Ito