Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-43.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and
system for optical character recognition by normalizing
attributes such as character height, character width, and
character position relative to a baseline reference using a
standard attribute value determined from the characters
themselves. The standard attribute value may be determined
from a frequency distribution of a set of the character
attribute values.
Claim 16 is reproduced below.
16. An automated optical character recognition
method for use on a programmable digital processing
device, comprising the steps of:
selecting from an array of characters a sequence of
characters to be recognized;
selecting an attribute of the members of said
sequence of characters;
calculating for said sequence of characters a set of
quantized attribute values corresponding to said selected
attribute of the members of said sequence of characters;
determining from said set of attribute values a
selected value to be used as an attribute value standard;
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