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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. 08, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1982
George B Fryer, Mint Hill, NC (US);
David A Stepneski, Cabarrus County, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Video image data received from an optical document reading system is processed by a dynamic field cut technique which utilizes the scan line as its elemental unit of data in controlling the concurrent extraction and processing of the individual fields. The field cut technique of the present invention has a chain of control instructions with a series of pointers being utilized to control the sequential processing of the control instructions and permit bypassing the control instructions for fields for which processing has been completed. By this arrangement, the number of operations necessary to separately act on a plurality of independently defined fields is reduced.