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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Hideki Matsuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Eguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiro Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Chiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsutoshi Kobara, Kanagawa, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A character recognition apparatus, in which a type of each of accounts, a type of each of marks, and characteristic data indicating a string of characters recognized when any of the marks is written in each account are previously registered for each group of the types of accounts in correlation to each other in an account-type database; a mark is estimated according to a result of verification between the account-type database and a result of ordinary character recognition according to a character recognizing program; and a type of account having the estimated mark is determined as a selected account name according to a result of recognizing characters in accounts other than the account having the mark.