Appeal No. 94-3823
Application 07/812,249
The Invention
The invention is directed to machine recognition of color-
coded alphanumeric characters. Such recognition occurs because
the characters differ in geometries and because they contain
differing color pixels. More specifically, each alphanumeric
character has a predominate color, e.g., black, which applies
to the whole character. This predominate color is readily
distinguishable by humans.
Each character also has a non-predominate color which is
intermingled within that character's predominate color and is
non-distracting to humans. The non-predominate color, however,
is distinguishable to and can be detected by a color scanner.
As disclosed, each non-predominate color represents a separate
character. Thus, when the scanner recognizes a particular non-
predominate color, it can then readily recognize the character
associated with that color. In addition, the machine senses the
geometry of a character to determine which character has passed.
Claim 1 is directed to a method for recognizing the above-
discussed geometric color-coded characters by using a first
character recognition system which views the particular
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