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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:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ray E Davis, Jr, Old Lyme, CT (US);
Robert G Foster, Clinton, CT (US);
Michael J Westkamper, Salem, CT (US);
Dana Duncan, Old Lyme, CT (US);
James R Hall, Clinton, CT (US);
Dennis L Nudelman, Waterford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 51 ; 382-9 ; 382 10 ; 382 18 ; 382 30 ; 382 47 ; 382 48 ; 382 50 ; 358263 ;
Abstract
A character recognition method comprising the steps of (1) acquiring a two dimensional array of pixels, (2) locating a character, (3) determining the size of the character, (4) reducing the number of pixels associated with the character by scaling it down to a smaller dot matrix and (5) thresholding the matrix dots using a histogram to form a binary character representation.