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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1998
Yutaka Nakashima, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A character reader for optically reading and entering characters. The character reader including: an input apparatus for photoelectrically reading characters as an image, creating image data formed by black pixels lying on a white surface, and entering the image data; a tangent detector for generating at least two line segments, each line segment connecting two black pixels within a character string of the image data; and a tilt decider for choosing a representative line segment from the at least two line segments which is representative of the tilt of the character string, on the basis that the distance between two black pixels specifying the representative line segment is longer than the distance between two black pixels specifying another line segment.