Character recognition device which divides a single character region into subregions to obtain a character code
US5271068A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 20, 1992 |
| Grant date | Dec 14, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V30/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A character recongintion device has a subdivider, a features calculator and a character code recognition device. Image data for a single character area is extracted from scanned character image data and input to the subdivider. This subdivider divides the image data for the single character area into subregions. The features calculator calculates quantified features in each subregion based on a degree of resemblance between a template and image data in the subregions. When the features of each subregion are calculated for all subregions constituting the single character area, a character code corresponding to the scanned character image data is recognized by the character code recognition device based on the quantified features of each of all subregions.
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