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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hans-Peter Herzig, Taunusstein, DE;
Volker Martschink, Wiesbaden, DE;
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/32 ;
Abstract
A communication device ( ), such as a cellular mobile phone or a cordless phone, has a dial unit ( ) for communication with a base station. An input device for dialing a phone number which forwards a coded dial signal ( ) to the dial unit ( ) is implemented as an optical character recognition (OCR) scanner ( ) that reads phone numbers ( ) from a printed or hand-written original ( ). Optionally, especially for recognizing hand-writing, the scanner ( ) sends graphical representations of input data to the base station that obtains the code dial signals by an external processor.