Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Feature extraction
Patent
1991-11-18
1995-06-27
Moore, David K.
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Feature extraction
382199, G06K 946, G06K 948
Patent
active
054286921
ABSTRACT:
An optical character recognition system which automatically reads handwritten characters and the like which do not have to be printed in a special format. Recognition tables derived from the pattern bit map and from a skeleton pixel matrix describe the character in terms of the relative position of the pixels along the borders of the character and provide a plurality of recognition strings, one in each table, for the front and rear views of the character and for the shape of the holes in the character which are opened from the top (as in the numeral four) or opened from the bottom (as in the numeral seven). From the recognition tables, the characters are recognized by searching recognition files containing blocks of successions of lines of code corresponding selectively to the codes in the recognition tables. The recognition file is arranged in hierarchal order so that the blocks in the file which represent characters having the lowest level of recognition difficulty in the character set to be recognized are searched first, the next highest level next and so forth. Recognition blocks for the next character in the group of blocks for the same difficulty of recognition level or to blocks for the next level of recognition difficulty. In this manner characters are recognized with a high degree of reliability and an indication of failure to recognize the character occurs rather than misrecognition.
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Cammarata Michael
Lukacher M.
Moore David K.
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