Patent Document ID: 5410612
Application ID: 07899698

Base Claim:
1. A method for recognizing characters in image information, comprising the steps of: outputting a displayable image signal on the basis of the information; recognizing character information on the basis of the image information; determining whether the recognized character information consists of a punctuation mark; and outputting the result of character recognition in a case where it has been determined in said determining step that the recognized character information consists of a punctuation mark and, in a case where it has not been determined in said determining step that the recognized character information consists of a punctuation mark, and, in a case where it has not been determined in said determining step that the recognized character information consists of a punctuation mark, not outputting the result of character recognition, thereby resulting in the reduction of screen display flicker.

---

Claim 4:
4. A method for recognizing characters in image information according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of inputting the image information, wherein the step of recognizing character information is initiated in response to the determination that inputting of one character of image information is complete.