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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:
Dec. 09, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasuo Hongo, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Nitta, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 27 ; 382 30 ;
Abstract
In the particular embodiment of the invention described in the specification, a pattern recognition apparatus converts the signals received from a video pattern detector into a bit matrix comprising columns and rows of character elements. The matrix is divided into a series of blocks and the pressence of horizontal or vertical strings of bits is compared with corresponding bit information relating to a set of known characters. An unknown character is identified by a minimum deviation of the compared block information from that of a corresponding known character.