Mail processing machine
CA 1312381 C · Owner: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · Inventors: Ota, Naoki
Overview
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A mail processing machine for sorting mail according to whether the characters of the destination address are printed or handwritten. The mail processing machine reads information of the surface of the mail and distinguishes the area of the destination address from the area of the sender address. The machine has a recognizer to determine printed or handwritten address according to the dispersion (i.e. the statistical variation) of a characteristic of the letters such as the height of letters, the space between letters or lines etc. In this operation, the recognizer calculates the dispersion using the signals corresponding to only the bottom two lines of the address area, which contain …
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- Granted January 5, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 5, 2010.
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