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Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1993

Filed:

Mar. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hirofumi Kameyama, Himeji, JP;

Shoji Miki, Himeji, JP;

Hiroki Tsubota, Himeji, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 13 ; 382-7 ; 382-9 ; 382 18 ;
Abstract

A plurality of recognition candidates are obtained through continuing a segmentation to a numeral recognition realized by segments, and an optimum one is selected from among the candidates by means of connection information, thereby preventing continuous numerals from being recognized erroneously. A method of correctly recognizing the handwritten characters, especially numerals written in checks includes the steps of: performing a line drawing analysis is of the character set to be recognized in order to extract a characteristic of the arrangement of blocks, proposing a hypothesis about the monetary unit type, and finally verifying the above hypothesis to display the result of the character recognition. Further, this method can surely distinguish handwritten characters from a bar which is either printed for entry of characters or handwritten, and eliminate the bar from the object of character recognition to extract the characters alone. In detecting the bar, six formulas for under-bar, middle-bar, upper-bar, inclined bar, inclined under-bar and inclined upper-bar relative to the characters are used to determine certainty factor of a bar, and the bar having the highest linearity is extracted.


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