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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:
Nov. 08, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koji Satoh, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 48 ; 382 20 ; 382 59 ;
Abstract
An improved apparatus and method of recognizing a character is disclosed. The side frame structures of characters or figures are discriminated by left and right margin detectors and corresponding left and right side frame recognition circuits. A final character discrimination circuit synthesized both the results of a conventional character recognition unit and the frame recognition circuits, and permits discrimination between similarly shaped characters.