Patent ID: 9324001
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A character recognition device for use with a medium on which a character string is printed, the character recognition device comprising: an image reader structured to capture the character string on the medium as image data; an image memory structured to store the image which is read by said image reader; and a data processor structured to segment the character string from said image data stored in said image memory and segmenting characters from said character string for character recognition; wherein said data processor comprises: said character segmenting unit comprises: said boundary position setting unit is structured to divide a projection to said boundary search range by a predetermined width into two regions, calculate the within-region variance in each region, the between-region variance, and the variance ratio between the within-region variance and the between-region variance, and set a segmentation position of characters based on said calculated variance ratio.