Patent ID: 6895117
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: G01C,G10L

Abstract:
1. A method for character recognition for a character recognition system having a reading memory, a working memory, an entry device and a recognition device, with said method including the steps of: storing a data set of memory character sequences in the reading memory; transferring the character sequences from the reading memory into the working memory in a serial manner; in the recognition device, deriving an association of an entered-character sequence provided by the entry device with one of the transmitted memory character sequences by the linking of the supplied entered-character sequence with the contents of the working memory; and, wherein the stored character sequences are represented in a hierarchical branched structure having a plurality of branch levels, and, said step of transferring the character sequence data of the data set includes transmitting the partial data of successive structural branch levels one after another over time, and causing the recognition device to already receive the possible linking of a possibly-present entered-character sequence having the still-incomplete contents of the working memory before the transfer of the entire data set is complete.