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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1994

Filed:

Oct. 01, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Toru Oki, Allendale, NJ (US);

Philip A Paolella, Fort Lee, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Sony Electronics, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 46 ; 382 44 ; 382 68 ; 382 14 ; 235454 ;
Abstract

A process for converting characters arranged circularly, as for example about the center hole of a compact disk, into a linear arrangement. Points are assigned to locations on the circular arrangement. These points are mapped to a linear arrangement. The number of points is selected to be greater than those of the original image to enhance the resolution of the resulting image. The location of the points is stored in an address array. The values of the pixels in the original image are then copied to a target array. The pixel values are then converted to binary values serving as input to a recognition neural network and a verification neural network.


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