Patent · US Expired

Communication device with dial function using optical character recognition, and method

US6594503B1 · kind B1 · utility

19Cited by

18References

10Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Motorola, Inc. · US

Inventors

Hans Peter Herzig · Taunusstein, DE
Volker Martschink · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 2, 2000
Grant date	Jul 15, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 2, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V30/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A communication device (200), such as a cellular mobile phone or a cordless phone, has a dial unit (208) for communication with a base station. An input device for dialing a phone number which forwards a coded dial signal (215) to the dial unit (208) is implemented as an optical character recognition (OCR) scanner (210) that reads phone numbers (202) from a printed or hand-written original (201). Optionally, especially for recognizing hand-writing, the scanner (210) sends graphical representations of input data to the base station that obtains the code dial signals by an external processor.

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