Method and apparatus for identifying MICR characters
Assignee4Access Communications
InventorsArvind Agrawal, Dave Cornwell, Val Popescu
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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. The magnetic and optical data are then normalized and combined to form a combined data set which is compared to templates representing combined magnetic imaging and optical imaging of the standard MICR characters. Character values are selected in response to the comparison of the combined data sets.
Claims23
A method for determining character value for a set of printed MICR characters, comprising:
- magnetically reading the printed MICR characters to create magnetic character data;
- optically reading the printer MICR characters to create optical character data;
- merging the magnetic character data and the optical character data with a controller to create joint scanned character data;
- and
- analyzing the joint character data with the controller to identify the MICR characters of the set of characters.
A method for determining character values for a set of printed MICR characters, comprising:
- magnetically reading the printed MICR characters to create magnetic character data;
- optically reading the printed MICR characters to create optical character data;
- first analyzing the magnetic character data and the optical character data with a controller to identify MICR characters for the scanned characters;
- merging the magnetic character data and the optical character data with the controller to create joint scanned character data;
- second analyzing the joint character data with the controller to identify the MICR characters for the scanned characters;
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- finally selecting character values for the scanned MICR characters with the controller in response to the first analyzing and the second analyzing steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.