Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Condition responsive means controls separating means
Patent
1988-07-08
1991-03-12
Pedder, Dennis H.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Condition responsive means controls separating means
209900, 382 1, 382 9, B07C 5342, G06K 900
Patent
active
049986260
ABSTRACT:
A mail processing machine for sorting mail according to whether the characters of the destination address are printed or handwritten. The mail processing machine reads information of the surface of the mail and distinguishes the area of the destination address from the area of the sender address. The machine has a recognizer to determine printed or handwritten address according to the dispersion (i.e. the statistical variation) of a characteristic of the letters such as the height of letters, the space between letters or lines etc. In this operation, the recognizer calculates the dispersion using the signals corresponding to only the bottom two lines of the address area, which contain important information.
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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Pedder Dennis H.
Wacyra Edward M.
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