| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5607063 |
Paper object sorting apparatus having means for erasing bar codes printed on paper object and pa |
March 4, 1997 |
| Information indicating whether or not the current sorting operation is the final one is preset in a control section. Then, a bar code reader recognizes sorting information of paper objects by reading respective bar codes printed on the paper objects that are supplied one by one from a |
| 5431288 |
Mail sorting apparatus |
July 11, 1995 |
| A mail sorting apparatus includes a video signal conversion section for photoelectrically converting and quantizing characters, codes, and the like on a mail item into a video signal, a blank area detection section for detecting a blank area where characters, codes, and the like are not |
| 5391889 |
Optical character reading apparatus which can reduce reading errors as regards a character image |
February 21, 1995 |
| In an optical character reading apparatus for optically reading a character image to produce a character signal representative of the character image, a collation and judgement circuit (22) compares a modified image with each of predetermined reference images memorized in a dictionary (2 |
| 5153443 |
Arrangement for detecting an opaque label area on a transparent envelope |
October 6, 1992 |
| For use together with a device for detecting a plurality of information positions where postal information pieces are described, an arrangement is for detecting one of the information positions that is described on an opaque label attached to a transparent envelope. Responsive to a regul |
| 4975974 |
Character recognition apparatus |
December 4, 1990 |
| A character recognition apparatus, for use with an input character pattern and a dictionary of stored character patterns that are blocked into categories, all the patterns having a quantifiable format, in which a judging circuit performs a comparison of the patterns based on the quan |
| 4771385 |
Word recognition processing time reduction system using word length and hash technique involving |
September 13, 1988 |
| A word recognization system compares an input word with words stored in a dictionary memory. The comparison is made on a basis of the number of letters in the input word in combination with the first few letters in the word. The first level of selection is made on a basis of the number o |
| 4769851 |
Apparatus for recognizing characters |
September 6, 1988 |
| An apparatus for recognizing characters with high recognition accuracy. The width of a character is measured, and the character is normalized in the direction of height only when the measured width is smaller than a predetermined value and in the direction of both height and width ir |
| 4675909 |
Binary character signal producing apparatus |
June 23, 1987 |
| A character recognition circuit slices the character signal received from an optical scanner and counts a number of black bits at multiple levels. The number of black bits are normalized in accordance with the character row length. A pair of level judging circuits responds to the normali |
| 4528692 |
Character segmenting apparatus for optical character recognition |
July 9, 1985 |
| A character segmenting apparatus has an optical scanner for scanning the surface of an article of mail. The scan is in a direction which is substantially perpendicular to the direction of the relative movement between the optical scanner and the mail article. The scan generates a pat |
| 4524453 |
Postal code distinguishing apparatus |
June 18, 1985 |
| A postal code distinguishing apparatus extracts characters from an address code appearing on a mail article, forms words from the extracted characters, stores in a memory a set of key words (i.e., "ATTN", "TEL", "P.O. BOS", etc.) which indicate that a numeric code on the same line is |
| 4475234 |
Binary pattern signal producing apparatus for optical character recognition |
October 2, 1984 |
| A binary pattern signal producing apparatus for optical character recognition comprises a pre-scanning section for determining an area containing the information to be scanned, a scanning apparatus for producing a signal in accordance with the luminance of the scanning area, an autom |
| 4158835 |
Arrangement for detecting a window area of a window-having mail item |
June 19, 1979 |
| An arrangement for detecting a window area of a window-having mail item is for use in combination with a device of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,034,341 for detecting addressee's addresses described on the mail items successively fed thereto by determining information positions o |
