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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:
Jan. 17, 1984
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Olof A Edlund, Lidingo, SE;
Mats A Enser, Lidingo, SE;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 56 ; 358261 ; 382 48 ;
Abstract
An optical character recognition system stores image data as a compressed run-length code. Preprocessing of characters for segmentation and registration is performed on the compressed data by means of tables created by a microprocessor. Only the image data required for recognition is expanded for the recognition process.