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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
A character recognition apparatus is provided with a recognition dictionary that stores the strokes of standard characters in an order that is in accordance with a predetermined rule for deciding the order of each stroke by the positional relationship of each stroke. A plurality of strokes are stored on a storage medium in an order in accordance with the predetermined rule. The plurality of strokes stored on the storage medium and each stroke of the standard characters stored in the recognition dictionary are compared. The character constructed by the plurality of strokes is recognized based upon the results of comparison.