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Parallel text matching methods and apparatus

  • US 4,550,436 A
  • Filed: 07/26/1983
  • Issued: 10/29/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for matching signals representing a line of printed alphanumeric characters with a given pattern of test signals representing a canonical string of printed characters comprisingmeans for storing said line of character representing signals,means for storing said pattern of test signals,a plurality of alphanumeric character recognition cells equal in number to the number of said characters in said line,means for applying each one of said character signals from said line to a respective one of said cells,means for sequentially applying each of said pattern test signals to all of said cells, andmeans for detecting the sequential matching to said pattern test signals in successive ones of said cells.

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