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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Nidec Sankyo Corporation, Suwa-gun, Nagano, JP;
Hiroshi Nakamura, Nagano, JP;
NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, , JP;
Abstract
A character recognition device for use with a medium with a character string, the character recognition device may include an image reader to capture the character string as image data; an image memory to store the image which is read by said image reader; and a data processor to segment the character string from said image data stored in said image memory and segmenting characters from said character string for character recognition. The data processor may include a character segmenting unit to detect boundary positions of neighboring characters in said character string and segment each character. The character segmenting unit may include a boundary search range setting unit to set a range to search boundary position of neighboring characters in said character string and a boundary position setting unit to set a boundary position of characters by using a discriminant analysis method within said search range which has been set.