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Apparatus and method for recognizing characters

  • US 4,180,799 A
  • Filed: 04/21/1978
  • Issued: 12/25/1979
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for recognizing characters such as alpha-numeric characters comprising:

  • scanning means for viewing a character and for providing video signals representative of generally parallel slices of such character;

    feature extraction means, coupled to receive said video signals from said scanning means, for detecting features from said signals as they are received and for assigning predetermined codes to said detected features, said feature extraction means providing a sequence of coded signals representing said detected features for said generally parallel slices of such character;

    logic tree means, coupled to receive said coded signals from said feature extraction means each time a change occurs in said coded signals, for logically evaluating each of said coded signals to determine the possible characters having features corresponding to said coded signals, such tree means narrowing such possible characters as said coded signals are evaluated until such character is identified;

    whereby characters are identified without storage of video data.

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