Abstract: A hand-written character recognition apparatus includes a CIS, and image data of each character of addressing information hand-written on a transmission original, which is read by the CIS, is stored in a bit-mapped line buffer. A histogram of one direction, e.g. an X direction (main scanning direction) is produced on the basis of the image data, and the histogram is stored in the histogram buffer. A rough position of each of the characters is evaluated on the basis of the histogram, and a character width of each of the characters, preferably an average character width is evaluated with referring to the line buffer. Then, a blank portion having a size of 1.5 times or less the average character width is detected as a space between characters.

Abstract: In a wireless telephone of a mobile communication system, which performs transmission in a series of bursts, in synchronism with a receive signal transmitted from a base station, each transmission burst being performed responsive to a transmission timing signal, a sync signal is detected from the receive signal, the transmission timing signal is generated on the basis of the sync signal, and each transmission burst is effected in accordance with the transmission timing signal. When the sync signal ceases to be detected, the transmission timing signal is autonomously generated for a certain time period after the sync signal is last detected. In another aspect of the invention, during reception in a first channel, the channel quality of another vacant channel is measured by transferring PLL data to a PLL prior to the slot in which the measurement is effected.