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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:
Sep. 30, 1997

Filed:

May. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Girolamo Gallo, Santa Rufina, IT;

Cristina Lattaro, Rieti, IT;

Giuseppe Savarese, Napoli, IT;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382187 ; 382204 ;
Abstract

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for recognizing a script written character. The character is entered using character entering device and digitised by appropriate device. The digitised character is then stored in, for example, a memory. Codes representing topological, vector dimension features and the microfeatures of the character are extracted from the character, then the features of the character are compared with a set of reference features corresponding thereto stored in a memory. Each of the set of reference characters corresponding with a specific script written character. A logic process is then performed to determine which of the set of reference features most closely corresponds to the topological features of the digitized character thereby identifying the script written character. The relative weighting of the feature can be varied for different types of script or confusing characters to enable still more accurate recognition.


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