Patent ID: 7580544
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
1. An addressee recognizing apparatus for recognizing an addressee of matter to be delivered, comprising: a storage unit which stores a description format including at least a position of a sender area on the matter to be delivered, the number of character rows in the sender area, the length of each character line, and the arrangement order of various words in the sender area; a reading unit which reads an image from a surface of the matter to be delivered; an extracting unit which extracts a plurality of candidates for an addressee area from the image read by the reading unit; an addressee determining unit which determines the addressee by sequentially recognizing the candidates extracted by the extracting unit; a determining unit which determines whether or not a description format for each of the candidates extracted by the extracting unit matches a description format for the sender area stored in the storage unit; and a prohibiting process unit which prohibits the candidate from being recognized as the addressee area if the determining unit determines that the description format for the candidate matches the description format for the sender area.