Patent ID: 7983483
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An automatic character recognition system comprising: an image-data acquiring unit for acquiring computer-recognizable image data; an image-data-acquisition control unit for controlling the image-data acquiring unit in order to accumulate the image data in a set of information units; an optical character-recognizing unit for extracting a character from the set of image data accumulated by the image-data-acquisition control unit; a character-recognition control unit that controls the optical character-recognizing unit for accumulating a group of characters obtained by the optical character-recognizing unit in a set of character information units; and a starting unit that outputs a start signal for triggering a character recognition process, wherein once the start signal is received from the starting unit, the image-data-acquisition control unit and the character-recognition control unit repeatedly control the image-data acquiring unit and the optical character-recognizing unit, respectively and independently without mutual interference: wherein the character-recognition control unit arbitrarily stops controlling the optical character-recognizing unit when a CPU usage rate of a calculating unit that governs operations of the automatic character recognition system exceeds a predetermined value.