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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:
Jan. 16, 2001

Filed:

May. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yoshikazu Ikebata, Tokyo, JP;

Kazunaga Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;

Yutaka Nakashima, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract

An on-line character recognition method is disclosed that recognizes inputted characters on-line by finding distance between strokes for patterns in stroke units of inputted characters and patterns in stroke units for each reference stroke. Reference patterns and inputted character patterns are each divided and represented as stroke shape patterns that indicate the shapes of strokes and stroke position patterns that indicate the position or size of strokes. Inter-stroke shape distances corresponding to each stroke shape pattern and inter-stroke position distances corresponding to each stroke position pattern are found, following which the inter-stroke distance is found based on the inter-stroke shape distances and the inter-stroke position distances.


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