An Automatic Circuit Diagram Reader with Loop-Structure-Based Symbol Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Akio Okazaki;Shou Tsunekawa;Takashi Kondo;Kazuhiro Mori;Eiji Kawamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Special Issue on Industrial Machine Vision and Computer Vision Technology:8MPart
  • Year:
  • 1988

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

A high-performance logic circuit diagram reader was developed for VLSI-CAD data input. Almost all logic circuit symbols include one or more loop structures. A description is given of an efficient method for recognition of these loop-structured symbols. The proposed method consists of two processes: symbol segmentation and symbol identification. Symbol identification is achieved by a powerful hybrid method which uses heuristics to mediate between template matching and feature extraction. The entire symbol recognition process is carried out under a decision-tree control strategy. The entire recognition system for circuit diagrams is briefly explained, including character string recognition and connecting line analysis.