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US 7,680,317 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for identifying MICR characters
OwnerLarry Adelberg, Bradley Singletaryinventors
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for reading MICR characters is disclosed, in which both magnetic and optical data are read and stored. Each type of data is analyzed to identify possible character values and a confidence level associated with each identified value. The result of the analysis for each type of read data are then analyzed together to finally identify characters.
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A method of determining values of a set of characters comprising:
- magnetically reading a predetermined set of characters to create magnetic character data;
- optically reading the predetermined set of characters to create optical character data;
- analyzing the magnetic character data with a controller to identify a magnetic character value for each character of the set of characters and assigning a magnetic character certainty parameter to each character;
- analyzing the optical character data with the controller to identify an optical character value for each character of the set of characters and assigning an optical character certainty parameter to each character;
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- assigning a final character value to each character of the set of characters with the controller in response to the magnetic character values, the magnetic character certainty parameters, the optical character values and the optical character certainty parameters.
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