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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:
Jan. 14, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hironori Yahagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/54 ; G06K 9/62 ; H04N 2/00 ; G06F 1/721 ; G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/54 ; G06K 9/62 ; H04N 2/00 ; G06F 1/721 ; G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A character string retrieval apparatus classifies a plurality of characters following a prefix of a registration character string into a plurality of groups, and registers those following characters in an array structure using a different displacement amount for each group. The character string retrieval apparatus retrieves a given character string based on the displacement amount of a group corresponding to an input character.