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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joji Tajima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-1 ; 209584 ; 250226 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for identifying postage stamps automatically includes one or more scanners for detecting the various colors which are present at predetermined regions on the stamp proper and associated circuitry which receives the color signals and derives from them a feature vector which represents the color distribution over the scanned area. A plurality of feature vectors which define the color distribution associated with known stamps is stored in a memory. A comparator compares the feature vector of the stamp being examined to the prestored feature vectors and determines the identity of the stamps.