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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:
Jan. 31, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfred L Basso, Colebrook, CT (US);
David A Newton, Coventry, CT (US);
Assignee:
Scan-Optics, Inc., East Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-9 ; 358453 ; 382-1 ; 382 48 ;
Abstract
A block of printed information, for example an address, is located on a moving page and data commensurate with the block only is transferred to downstream processing apparatus such as an optical character reader. The location of the block of information is accomplished by generating a real time binary profile of a data stream produced during scanning of the page and comparing the binary profile with a plurality of prerecorded profiles commensurate with the type of information to be located.