Pattern segmentation and recognition in which hand-written characters are transformed electrically into 2-dimensional image patterns, wherein if ambiguity exists in segmenting a unit pattern including a character from the image patterns, character recognition is not made compulsively, but a plurality...http://www.google.de/patents/US4654873?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4654873 - System and method for segmentation and recognition of patterns
