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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Shiro Fujieda, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6201 (2013.01); G06K 9/342 (2013.01); G06K 2009/6213 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A character-recognition device and method for imaging a character string, generating a grayscale image that corresponds to the character string, cutting out, from the grayscale image, individual characters in the character string, obtaining a coincidence of a character image that is being focused on for each of model images of a plurality of kinds of characters by sequentially focusing on cut-out character images to match the cut-out character images against the model images, and recognizing characters corresponding to the cut-out character images based on each coincidence.