Abstract: Banking apparatus for reading numeric information on bank checks, drafts and like documents. An electronic black/white pixel image of the numeric information is analyzed by a system capable of reading unconstrained, constrained, printed and typed numeric characters, locating the division between dollar and cents amounts. The invention also reads overlapping, touching and not touching characters.

Abstract: Banking apparatus for high speed processing of bank checks, drafts and like documents having numeric characters in courtesy amount fields. The documents are conveyed along a path and the courtesy amount field with the numeric character are located, scanned, digitized and the numeric characters are supplied to a plurality of parallel connected artificial fovea, each artificial fovea including temporary storage and image section measurement circuits. Recognition scoring circuits identify the numeric characters from the respective artificial fovea.

Abstract: Banking apparatus for reading numeric information on bank checks, drafts and like documents. An electronic black/white pixel image of the numeric information is analyzed by a system capable of reading unconstrained, constrained, printed and typed numeric characters, locating the division between dollar and cents amounts. The invention also reads overlapping touching and not touching characters. A check is fed (330) to a scanner (331) and converted to a black and white image. A courtesy amount field (CAF) on the check is located by a CAF locator (332) and is provided to a recognition system (333).

Abstract: A pattern recognition system, particularly a handprint character recognition system in which electrical binary black/white "image" of one or more handprinted characters is formed and a plurality of centers of recognition (CORs) within said binary black/white images are selected as reference points for measuring the characteristic enclave of the black/white image immediately surrounding the CORs. A library of templates of said measurements around the CORs for a plurality of known exemplary character images is stored in a memory for comparison with corresponding measurements made around the CORs of images whose class is unknown to produce "template scores" proportional to the similarity of the enclaves of the known image to the enclaves measured by templates.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for monitoring transactions on a high speed interface us and for selectively storing information about such transactions together with the time of such transaction and the state of the automaton. The apparatus comprises two parallel memories for respectively storing a regular table and a default table, and a memory selector for choosing between the table data of the two memories. A bus trap stores data information obtained from the bus and compares the stored information with a stored data template. A transition detector receives control signals from the bus and generates clock signals used by other system elements upon the detection of a transition. A hash coder utilizes a hash key together with state information to generate an address for entering the regular table memory. A state latch stores an address provided by the memory selector for the default table.

Abstract: A high-resolution video filling system making use of a standard low-resolution magnetic tape video recorder for the storage and retrieval of documentary information. In the storage mode, each document to be filed is scanned by a high-resolution video camera to produce a video signal representing a single image frame having a predetermined number of scan lines that is a multiple of the number of scan lines in a standard low-resolution image frame. The image frame signal from the video camera is divided into a series of fields each having a like number of scan lines, the fields being sequentially applied to the recorder to produce on the moving tape thereof a set of parallel transverse tracks one for each field, the set representing a single image frame.

Abstract: A video system for storing and retrieving documentary information. In the storage mode, each document to be filed is scanned by a high-resolution video camera to produce a video signal representing a single image frame having a predetermined number of scan lines. The frame signal is electronically divided into a series of fields each having a like number of scan lines, the fields being applied successively to the recording heads of a multi-headed magnetic tape recorder in which the heads are vertically offset with respect to each other. The heads are mounted on a rotating arm and are caused thereby to sweep across a stationary magnetic tape to record the fields thereon in a set of parallel transverse tracks. The tape is indexed to store each document in a distinct set of tracks.