Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toru Shijo

Toru Homma

Yoshikatu Nakamura

Tadashi Miyazaki

Masataka Yanagisawa

A character recognition apparatus comprises a photoelectric conversion section that converts image information including the characters to be recognized into multi-valued image information according to image density, an edge extracting circuit that creates edge image information indicating the outline of image density on the basis of the multi-valued image information from the photoelectric conversion section, and a recognition circuit that computes a distribution of a direction component so as to create a feature vector and recognizes characters on the basis of the direction feature vector.

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Yokohama, Japan

Toru Shijo