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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
May. 30, 1995
Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Ibaragi-ken, JP;
Shunji Mori, Kashiwa, JP;
Teruo Tsuchiya, Tokyo, JP;
Seiichi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Anahara, Tokorozawa, JP;
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for recognizing visual patterns of handprinted characters or the like by means of an optical character reader which reads the patterns by a so-called outermost point method. While tracing the contour of the pattern stored in a two-dimensional memory, the distances from the starting point of the tracing and the integrated values of the coordinates of the points traced on the contour from the starting points are simultaneously obtained successively to extract outermost points for the series of contours. According to this outermost points, the contours are segmented into the convex line segments, concavity line segments and hole segments and the corresponding parameters of features of each segment are detected. Simultaneously, the convex line segment of which is shorter than a predetermined length is rejected and the remaining segments are subjected to matching operation in accordance with preliminarily prepared dictionary, thereby making a decision as to the pattern's identity.