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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:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Graham Luckhurst, Kitchener, CA;
Bruce A Burden, Waterloo, CA;
Gary E Botzang, Waterloo, CA;
Vernon W Tarbutt, Kitchener, CA;
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, , MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209583 ; 209534 ; 209900 ; 271-314 ; 705 45 ; 235379 ;
Abstract
A parallel document buffer for holding a plurality of documents while recognition processing is performed on data captured from the documents. Information from each document in a document stream is captured, and passed to a recognition processor. Each document is then passed to one of a plurality of parallel buffer stages of a document buffer, and held until a specified processing time has elapsed. Upon expiration of the processing time, the document is returned to the document stream.