Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Optical or pre-photocell system
Patent
1979-12-12
1981-07-07
Nelms, David C.
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Optical or pre-photocell system
235454, 235482, G06K 900
Patent
active
042776899
ABSTRACT:
An optical character reader for conversion of information to a machine readable code from a strip of alpha-numeric characters on the face of a document. It includes an elongated document slot along which the document may be hand guided through a predetermined path. Optical viewing means is provided across a scan line intersecting the path of the alpha-numeric characters. A character scanning assembly electronically generates images of each character. Recognition processing means encodes these images into a machine readable code. All of the physical, optical and electronic components are contained within a compact single enclosure.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3628016 (1971-12-01), Berler
Lerch Donald C.
Morgan Gary B.
Piekarski Michael
Rank John
Thomas Robert J.
Hostetter Darwin R.
Key Tronic Corporation
Nelms David C.
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