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Apparatus for recognizing address appearing on mail article

  • US 5,050,218 A
  • Filed: 02/19/1991
  • Issued: 09/17/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for recognizing an address appearing on an article, comprising:

  • character reading means for reading an address description appearing on an article to produce character data;

    word extracting means responsive to said character data for extracting words from said character data, to produce a string of words;

    keyword detecting means for detecting a keyword contained in said string of words by comparing each word of said string of words outputted from said word extracting means with a plurality of predetermined keyword dictionaries, to produce keyword information, when said string of words contains at least one keyword;

    word combining means, responsive to said keyword information, for combining remaining non-keyword words contained in said string to produce a plurality of word combinations which are to be subjected to address recognition;

    an address dictionary memory for storing a plurality of address dictionaries; and

    address comparing means for comparing selected ones of said address dictionaries stored in said address dictionary memory with each word combination of said plurality of word combinations produced by said word combining means.

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