IMAGE RECOGNITION THROUGH LOCALIZED INTERPRETATION

摘要

A printed or handwritten character image is recognized by training (301) a p lurality of lookup tables with a set of known referent characters; obtaining (302) a bit map of a character image to be recognized; mapping (303) the bitmap onto a standardized character mat rix; partitioning (304) the matrix into a plurality of sub-matrices; (305) determining a set of cand idates for each sub-matrix; and selecting (306) a preferred candidate from among the set of candidates responsive to at least one pre-defined selection criterion. The invention is implemented by m eans of a scanner (102), a character mapper (104), a matrix partitioner (106), a candidate set builder (108), and a character selector (110).