Patent Document ID: 8515754
Application ID: 12755143

Base Claim:
1. A method of performing speech recognition on an object for automatic processing of the object by a processing system, wherein the object includes an information area containing a character string of processing information, the method comprising: acquiring a signal representing a sequence of characters spoken by an operator corresponding to the character string and processing the signal with a speech recognition processor by way of a speech recognition procedure generating a first ambiguous speech recognition result; based on specific characteristics of the first ambiguous speech recognition result, requesting additional processing information from the operator by providing request information with the processing system; acquiring a signal representing an operator's response to the request and processing the operator's response with the speech recognition processor for generating a second ambiguous speech recognition result; modifying the first ambiguous speech recognition result to achieve consistency with the operator's response; and making a digital image of the information area available for an optical character recognition (OCR) procedure and performing the OCR procedure on the digital image using at least a part of the modified ambiguous speech recognition result for the OCR procedure.

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Claim 12:
12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if the operator's response is a negation, the modifying step comprises removing from the first ambiguous speech recognition result a portion corresponding to the request information.