HANDWRITING RECOGNITION BY WORD SEPARATION INTO SILLOUETTE BAR CODES AND OTHER FEATURE EXTRACTION

Patent №

US 6,917,708

Granted

2005-07-12

Filed 2001

Owner

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09765772

A method of automatically recognizing text. The text is divided into whole words which are each recognize. Each whole word is characterized according to its silhouette. The silhouette is characterized by features in the silhouette such as upwardly extending “polls” and downwardly extending “holes”. The silhouette may also be characterized by its first syllable blends. Numbers are assigned to each of the different characteristics, and numbers may also be assigned based on analysis of a database of different kinds of cursive words. Recognition may be automatically carry out prior recognizing system which recognizes in this way.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Speech0.40
AI hardware0.09
Knowledge representation0.01
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

assignment · 117940486

Assignors

GOODMAN, RODNEY M., KEATON, PATRICIA A., CHEN, JOSEPH, WOODS, DONALD J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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