Hand-held magnetic ink character recognition system
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1. A hand-held apparatus for the magnetic recognition of a plurality of ink characters sequentially disposed on a surface of a medium for use during manual conveyance, said apparatus comprising:
- a housing substantially compact in size and functionally manageable by hand;
a read head disposed within said housing and provided for magnetically reading said ink characters disposed on said surface of said medium;
a feedback device for detecting the speed of the read head during manual conveyance of said apparatus and sampling from the read head based on the detected read head speed to produce data that is adjusted to compensate for read speed variations due to manual operation; and
an output cable for transferring the data from said hand-held apparatus to a data processor.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a hand-held magnetic ink character recognition system 10 having an integrated position/speed feedback device 20, such as an optical encoder. The position/speed feedback device 20 is provided to compensate for variable speeds generated by manual operation.
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1. A hand-held apparatus for the magnetic recognition of a plurality of ink characters sequentially disposed on a surface of a medium for use during manual conveyance, said apparatus comprising:
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a housing substantially compact in size and functionally manageable by hand;
a read head disposed within said housing and provided for magnetically reading said ink characters disposed on said surface of said medium;
a feedback device for detecting the speed of the read head during manual conveyance of said apparatus and sampling from the read head based on the detected read head speed to produce data that is adjusted to compensate for read speed variations due to manual operation; and
an output cable for transferring the data from said hand-held apparatus to a data processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. Method for magnetically recognizing ink characters disposed on a surface of a medium using a hand-held recognition device for manual conveyance, said method comprising the steps of:
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providing a hand-held recognition device and a medium;
positioning said hand-held recognition device along said medium wherein ink characters containing magnetic particles are disposed;
manually conveyancing said device along said medium in a substantially planar direction whereby a read head is positioned relative to said ink characters for detecting a magnetic signal due to said magnetic particles provided by said ink characters;
processing said magnetic signal provided by said ink characters;
compensating for said manual conveyance to produce data that is adjusted to compensate for read speed variations by using a feedback device which collects a position feedback signal; and
transferring said data from said hand-held recognition device to a data processor. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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