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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasuo Nishijima, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunari Egami, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 34 ; 382 47 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for recognizing characters with high recognition accuracy. The width of a character is measured, and the character is normalized in the direction of height only when the measured width is smaller than a predetermined value and in the direction of both height and width irrespective of the measured width. The normalized characters are compared and collated with a reference, and a category of the reference having the higher degree of coincidence is provided as a recognition result.