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Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997

Filed:

May. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Daniel P Huttenlocher, Ithaca, NY (US);

Michael J Hopcroft, Ithaca, NY (US);

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382177 ; 382190 ; 382203 ;
Abstract

A method for reducing an image of a character or word string to one or more one dimensional signals, including the steps of determining page orientation, isolating character strings from adjacent character strings, establishing a set of references with respect to which measurements about the character string may be made, and deriving a plurality of measurements with respect to the references in terms of a single variable signal, from which information about the symbol string may be derived.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Huttenlocher, Daniel. (1997). Method of deriving wordshapes for subsequent comparison (U.S. Patent No. 5640466). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5640466

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