Communications: electrical – Digital comparator systems
Patent
1975-05-14
1978-06-27
Boudreau, Leo H.
Communications: electrical
Digital comparator systems
3401463AG, G06K 916
Patent
active
040978478
ABSTRACT:
As described herein, a program controlled image dissector tube scans the printed information recorded on a storage medium in a first raster to provide analog information signals representative of segments of the recorded information and in a second raster to provide analog information signals representative of all the recorded information. If, as determined by the analog information signals representative of segments of the recorded information, the printed information is legible, the analog information signals representative of all the printed information are converted into digital form and scaled, if necessary, to reduce the digital character data to a predetermined scan length. Selected arrays of the digital character data are then scanned to develop black or white signals about a center bit within such arrays. The black or white signals are, in turn, accumulated to provide an array of black and white signals representative of an entire character. The contour of the array of black and white signals is then traced to develop contour digital data representative of incremental moves about the perimeter of the character. The extent and direction of such incremental moves are then accumulated to develop parameters. The parameters are then selectively combined and the areas bounded by such parameters calculated to develop feature indication signals. The feature indication signals are then accumulated, compared against preselected recognition thresholds and classified as a particular character.
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Forsen George E.
Jackson Stephen F.
Boudreau Leo H.
Scan-Optics Inc.
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