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System and method for character recognition with normalization

  • US 5,633,954 A
  • Filed: 09/30/1994
  • Issued: 05/27/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/18/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A neural network-based character recognition system, comprising:

  • a receiver for receiving a first binary image of a plurality of characters;

    a segmenter for separating the first binary image into a plurality of second binary images corresponding to the plurality of characters in the first binary image;

    a normalizer for reducing variations among the plurality of characters by processing the second binary images, comprising;

    a stroke adjuser for processing the second binary images to adjust strokes of the characters first to a one-pixel thickness and then to adjust the one-pixel thickness strokes to a second thickness which is substantially uniform and which is greater than the one-pixel thickness,a size normalizer for processing the second binary images to proportionally adjust the overall size of the characters to a predetermined overall size, anda slant correcter for processing the second binary images to reduce a slant with respect to a predetermined axis of the characters by using a binary search strategy which converges within a predetermined error margin; and

    a neural network recognizer coupled to the normalizer for processing the stroke-adjusted, size-normalized, and slant corrected second binary images to determine which character is represented by each of the second binary images processed by the normalizer.

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