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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:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382173 ;
Abstract
An information recognition apparatus includes a first identification unit for performing first identification processing and a second identification unit for performing second identification processing, as units for identifying information. In this apparatus, the first identification unit and the second identification unit can perform identification processing in parallel. An information recognition method includes performing first identification processing and second identification processing as processing for identifying information. In this method, the first identification processing and the second identification processing can be performed in parallel.