Pattern recognition apparatus

摘要

In the particular embodiment of the invention described in the specification, a pattern recognition apparatus converts the signals received from a video pattern detector into a bit matrix comprising columns and rows of character elements. The matrix is divided into a series of blocks and the pressence of horizontal or vertical strings of bits is compared with corresponding bit information relating to a set of known characters. An unknown character is identified by a minimum deviation of the compared block information from that of a corresponding known character.