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Character recognition apparatus and method with low-resolution storage for character extraction

  • US 5,361,309 A
  • Filed: 12/23/1993
  • Issued: 11/01/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A character recognition apparatus, comprising:

  • first memory means for storing low-resolution image data expanding already stored compressed image data;

    second memory means for storing high-resolution data expanding the already stored compressed image data;

    extraction means for extracting an area in which one character exists from the data in said first memory means by detecting a frequency of dot-information of the image data in said first memory means representing black dots;

    selecting means for converting coordinate data of the extracted area in the first memory means to coordinate data in the second memory means and selecting from said second memory means the high-resolution data corresponding to the converted coordinate data; and

    recognition means for recognizing the selected high-resolution data of an image of the selected area in said second memory means corresponding to the area extracted by said extracting means.

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