Image analysis – Pattern recognition – On-line recognition of handwritten characters
Reexamination Certificate
1997-09-15
2001-08-07
Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2621)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
On-line recognition of handwritten characters
C382S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06272243
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for entering characters into a writing recognizer, for example a Japanese writing recognizer.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the Japanese language, there are three different character sets: Hiragana characters, Katakana characters and Kanji characters. When writing-text in the Japanese language, small characters are written close to the large characters preceding them, especially when writing from top to bottom (as opposed to left to right in other languages). The small character is written to the lower left corner of the large character. Therefore, it is natural for a person writing in the Japanese language to expect to write the large and the small characters closely or almost together.
The current Japanese writing recognizers do not allow the small character to be written close or almost together with the large character. The current Japanese writing recognizers provide consecutive boxes for a user to enter characters. Each box can only receive one character from the user. Such a configuration results in the large and small characters written in different boxes.
Hence, a need exists to provide a Japanese writing recognizer which allows a user to write in his natural writing style with the small character closely or almost together with the large character.
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Parthasarathy Kannan
Ulgen Figen
Bella Matthew C.
Bose Romi N.
Motorola Inc.
Watanabe Hisashi D.
Wood J. Ray
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