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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
David L Carlstrom, Fayetteville, NY (US);
Assignee:
Kaman Sciences Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382181 ; 382276 ;
Abstract
A character recognition system employs a 'hashing' technique of imaged pixels wherein a digital image constituting an array of pixels is divided into a series of sub-arrays. The sub-array digital signal patterns themselves correspond directly to addresses in associated system memories. Each memory address indicates a predetermined set of the possible characters. There is an apparatus for combining the list of possible characters so that signals corresponding to only one character are output.