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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:
Sep. 20, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Warner C Scott, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 21 ; 382 22 ;
Abstract
A method for recognizing and providing an output corresponding to a character in which the character is received by an imager, digitized, and transmitted to a memory. Data in the memory is read in a sequence which circumnavigates the test character. Only data representative of the periphery of the character are read. During the circumnavigation, character parameters, such as height, width, perimeter, area and waveform are determined. The character parameters are compared with reference character parameters and the ASCII code for the reference character which matches the character is provided as an output.