Optical character reader apparatus
First Claim
1. An optical character reader apparatus comprising:
- (a) an optical system for converting characters written on a document card to an optical signal and for converting said optical signal to an electrical signal;
(b) a pre-processing circuit connected to said optical system for converting said electrical signal into a binary picture image signal, and for extracting a picture image corresponding to one character from said binary picture image signal;
(c) a feature extracting circuit connected to said pre-processing circuit for extracting features of said one character in conformity with a predetermined procedure;
(d) a character judgement circuit connected to said feature extracting circuit for effecting a comparison of said one character;
(e) a dictionary memory connected to said character judgement circuit for previously registering feature data of characters corresponding to character codes of said characters, and for further enabling said character judgement circuit to compare said feature data from said feature extracting circuit with said feature data registered in said dictionary memory and for delivering character codes of coincident characters in response to said comparison;
(f) a post-processing circuit connected to said character judgement circuit and an output terminal for effecting editing and output control corresponding to said judgement in said character judgement circuit;
(g) a vowel judgement part connected to said word comparison control part for judging whether or not respective constituent characters of the extracted words are vowels when said number of characters constituting the word extracted in said word constituting character number judgement part is greater than a prescribed number, and if so, eliminating a constituent character judged to be a vowel from among said constituent characters being compared; and
(h) a word comparison circuit connected to said post-processing circuit for effecting word comparison in cooperation with said circuit.
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Abstract
An optical character reader apparatus is provided to optically read characters written on a document card to extract as a word a character group compared with previously registered words. Such a word is compared for each character constituting that word. When the number of constituent characters constituting the extracted word is greater than a prescribed number, a judgement is made as to whether or not each constituent character is a vowel, and, if so, is removed and, if otherwise, subsequently compared with respect to characters other than vowels. As a result, a word which is found to have the largest number of coincident characters to previously registered words, is selected as a candidate word and delivered as the word read from the document card.
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1. An optical character reader apparatus comprising:
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(a) an optical system for converting characters written on a document card to an optical signal and for converting said optical signal to an electrical signal; (b) a pre-processing circuit connected to said optical system for converting said electrical signal into a binary picture image signal, and for extracting a picture image corresponding to one character from said binary picture image signal; (c) a feature extracting circuit connected to said pre-processing circuit for extracting features of said one character in conformity with a predetermined procedure; (d) a character judgement circuit connected to said feature extracting circuit for effecting a comparison of said one character; (e) a dictionary memory connected to said character judgement circuit for previously registering feature data of characters corresponding to character codes of said characters, and for further enabling said character judgement circuit to compare said feature data from said feature extracting circuit with said feature data registered in said dictionary memory and for delivering character codes of coincident characters in response to said comparison; (f) a post-processing circuit connected to said character judgement circuit and an output terminal for effecting editing and output control corresponding to said judgement in said character judgement circuit; (g) a vowel judgement part connected to said word comparison control part for judging whether or not respective constituent characters of the extracted words are vowels when said number of characters constituting the word extracted in said word constituting character number judgement part is greater than a prescribed number, and if so, eliminating a constituent character judged to be a vowel from among said constituent characters being compared; and (h) a word comparison circuit connected to said post-processing circuit for effecting word comparison in cooperation with said circuit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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