Industrial Sensory Devices

Abstract

This essay starts from the arguable proposition that the long history of pattern recognition and allied techniques, such as image analysis, has resulted in relatively little practical, i.e., commercial, application. The only significant commercial use is that of character recognition where, starting from the early systems for reading highly stylized character shapes printed (in magnetic ink) on bank checks, we now have devices capable of recognizing only lightly stylized handprinted characters, though at some cost.