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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1980
Yoshikathu Nakamura, Yokosuka, JP;
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A character reading apparatus including a scanning unit manually moved along a line of characters for periodically and optically scanning the character and producing character pattern data concerning the scanned character, a memory accommodating conditional data prescribing effective character patterns and a pattern identification unit for executing identification process for a character pattern obtained from the scanning unit when the character pattern is determined to be effective, is disclosed. The character reading apparatus further includes an optimum character detection circuit, which compares the widths of character patterns represented by effective character pattern data to detect a character pattern having the greatest width and causes identification process to be executed for the character pattern data having the largest width.
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