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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1977
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Saraga, Salfords, EN;
Pieter Reijnierse, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401 / ; 3401 / ;
Abstract
Character thinning apparatus for use in recognizing characters comprising means for applying a compound operator in cycles to each point of the binarized character on a first matrix, and means for rewriting, in each cycle, character points to which the compound operator is applied into corresponding positions in a second matrix in accordance with a compound test criterion.