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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. 17, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Osamu Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunari Egami, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-1 ; 382-9 ; 382 40 ; 382 48 ;
Abstract
An address recognition apparatus and method is disclosed in which keyword and/or postal code detection is initially performed in order to limit the number of address dictionaries needed for final address detection. According to one embodiment, detected keywords are associated with property codes which may be designated for city names, street names, etc. The address dictionary memory is or can be separated into a plurality of segments, particular ones of which are selected on the basis of the property code of a given keyword.