Abstract: A traveling reactor power monitoring system includes a probe cable, a traveling prove connected to the probe cable, a storage reel storaging the probe cable, a motor feeding and spooling the probe cable, a drive control unit driving the motor at a scheduled drive speed, a torque sensor measuring a drive torque for moving the traveling probe and the probe cable, an aimed torque DB storing a first threshold and a second threshold, a drive information DB storing the drive torque and the drive speed that the drive control unit moved the traveling probe and a scheduled drive speed processor calculating the scheduled drive speed that is set faster than previous drive speed when the previous drive torque is smaller than the second threshold, and is set slower than previous drive speed when the previous drive torque is larger than the first threshold.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus comprises a photoelectric conversion section that converts image information including the characters to be recognized into multi-valued image information according to image density, an edge extracting circuit that creates edge image information indicating the outline of image density on the basis of the multi-valued image information from the photoelectric conversion section, and a recognition circuit that computes a distribution of a direction component so as to create a feature vector and recognizes characters on the basis of the direction feature vector.