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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:
Sep. 06, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard E Kumpf, San Jose, CA (US);
William R Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Caere Corporation, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 48 ; 382 62 ;
Abstract
A matrix extractor is described which is particularly useful for extracting data from a memory which contains representations of optically scanned characters. The method and apparatus of the present invention permits the isolation of packets of data in the memory and the determination of the location of these packets. Data representing the packets is then extracted from the memory for character recognition. The isolation of packets in memory greatly reduces the amount of data which must be processed by the recognition processor and provides much more reliable recognition.