Character recognition apparatus
First Claim
1. A character recognition apparatus comprising:
- scan line data generating means for detecting at least one character on a medium, storing image data corresponding to a detected character, and generating a series of scan line data constituting the image data;
segmentation control means for generating starting and end scan line position data which respectively represent starting and end scan line positions for defining a segment of each character data in accordance with the series of scan line data;
character selecting means for generating from said scan line data generating means the character data specified in accordance with the starting and end scan line position data generated from said segmentation control means; and
recognizing means for recognizing characters by comparing the character data of the segment defined by the starting and end scan line position data generated from said segmentation control means with a plurality of prestored reference character data, and for supplying a control signal to said segmentation control means to update at least one of the starting and end scan line position data when the character data from said scan line data generating means does not coincide with any of the reference character data.
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Abstract
A character recognition apparatus has an image data generating section for storing image data corresponding to a character array on a sheet of paper and for generating a series of scan line data constituting one item of image data; a segmentation control section for generating starting and end scan line data which define a segment of each character data in accordance with the scan line data sequentially generated from the image data generating section; and a recognizing section for detecting any similarities between the reference character data and the character data generated from the data generating section in accordance with the starting and end scan line data and for generating effective data character data which has the largest similarity which is larger than a predetermined value. When none of the similarities exceed the predetermined value, the recognizing section supplies a control signal to the segmentation control section to update one item of the starting and end scan line data, thereby allowing the image data generating section to generate character data for a different segment.
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1. A character recognition apparatus comprising:
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scan line data generating means for detecting at least one character on a medium, storing image data corresponding to a detected character, and generating a series of scan line data constituting the image data; segmentation control means for generating starting and end scan line position data which respectively represent starting and end scan line positions for defining a segment of each character data in accordance with the series of scan line data; character selecting means for generating from said scan line data generating means the character data specified in accordance with the starting and end scan line position data generated from said segmentation control means; and recognizing means for recognizing characters by comparing the character data of the segment defined by the starting and end scan line position data generated from said segmentation control means with a plurality of prestored reference character data, and for supplying a control signal to said segmentation control means to update at least one of the starting and end scan line position data when the character data from said scan line data generating means does not coincide with any of the reference character data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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