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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175389 | Recognizing handwritten words Recognizing handwritten words at an electronic device. A plurality of strokes is received at a common input region of an electronic device. The plurality of strokes in combination defines a word comprising a plurality of symbols, a relative geometry of a first subse... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170340 | Device, method and computer program for identifying a traffic sign in an image A device for identifying a traffic sign in an image includes a Hough transformer implemented to identify a plurality of line sections running in different directions through the image in the image or in an edge image derived from same. The device further includes a ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160362 | Combining online and offline recognizers in a handwriting recognition system Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150162 | Method and system for three-dimensional handwriting recognition The present invention provides a 3D handwriting recognition system that allows users to freely write words or characters in a 3D space in a touchless manner, without requiring any physical medium such as a pad or a tablet. The users' handwriting input in a 3D space ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131081 | Image processing apparatus, and computer program product An image processing apparatus includes a command-data storage unit, a handwritten-data recognizing unit, and a matching unit. The command-data storage unit stores therein a command-data table that contains a command character and content of a command corresponding t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121412 | Recognition of tabular structures A number of regions and partitions may be created based on input handwritten atoms and a grammar parsing framework. Productions for tabular structures may be added to the grammar parsing framework to produce an extended grammar parsing framework. Each of the regions... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116570 | User interface for providing digital ink input and correcting recognition errors In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input one or more strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may produce and present a recognition result, which may include a misrecognized portion. A user ma... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111922 | Bi-directional handwriting insertion and correction Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing bi-handwriting directional handwriting recognition and correction. A combined handwriting recognizer is provided that supports left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition by using a combined di... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103100 | System of implementing user handwriting and method thereof System for implementing user handwriting according to the present invention, comprising : a handwriting input module (120) for receiving user handwriting including at least 100 to 200 characters by a user with sample sentences; a feature determining module ( | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094942 | Character recognition for overlapping textual user input Techniques described herein may recognize handwritten characters that are written at least partially over the top of one another that are input to a computing device. The handwritten characters may be formed of one or more strokes. A user may write characters or par... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094941 | Character recognition for overlapping textual user input Techniques described herein may recognize handwritten characters that are written at least partially over the top of one another that are input to a computing device. The handwritten characters may be formed of one or more strokes. A user may write characters or par... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090203 | System for determining digital ink orientation A system for determining the orientation of digital ink is provided having a sensing pen and a processor. The system measures the orientation of the pen during writing by the pen on a surface printed with tags. Each tag encodes data on an identity of the surface ass... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8077975 | Handwriting symbol recognition accuracy using speech input Described is a bimodal data input technology by which handwriting recognition results are combined with speech recognition results to improve overall recognition accuracy. Handwriting data and speech data corresponding to mathematical symbols are received and proces... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073258 | Using handwriting recognition in computer algebra Systems and methods for use in handwriting recognition in computer algebra are provided. One disclosed method includes receiving handwriting input from a user via a handwriting input device, the handwriting input representing a mathematical expression. The method fu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064702 | Handwriting templates Apparatuses, methods, and computer-storage media provide character string templates to facilitate receiving non-prose handwriting input from a user and converting that input to text to create character strings capable of being provided to application and/or displaye... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050500 | Recognition method and system Techniques for recognizing discrete multi-component symbolic input from a user can be applied to, for example, handwriting or speech. The techniques can include providing a database of model input sequences, where each model input sequence corresponds to a symbol to... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041119 | Method for determining orientation of chinese words A method for determining the orientation of Chinese words is provided. The amount of dark pixels in each column of a Chinese word image is calculated. Then, a first point, a second point, and a third point are determined. The first point and the second point corresp... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036465 | Method of text interaction using chirographic techniques Disclosed herein is a system for operating chirographic devices. The system may support a spatial chirographic sign reader, a spatial character recognition technique, a chirographic text character writer, a chirographic text character setter, a chirographic text cha... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014607 | Method and apparatus for creating and editing node-link diagrams in pen computing systems A method and system provides intelligent node-link diagram creation and editing, including an electronic display device having a surface on which a writing and/or drawing canvas is provided. An input device permits writing and/or drawing of electronic ink strokes, a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009915 | Recognition of mathematical expressions In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may partition the input strokes into multiple regions of strokes. A first recognizer and a second recognizer m... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000532 | Digital pen to capture data in ambulatory monitored patients A medical device system and method for monitoring a patient include a monitoring device for storing data relating to the patient and a digital pen for digitizing and storing data handwritten by the patient. A control module is configured to aggregate data stored by ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991231 | Method and apparatus for determining whether image characters or graphics are handwritten An image processing apparatus and method for capturing an image including characters or graphics, determines whether or not the characters or graphics included in the captured image are prepared by handwriting based on a magnitude of a density gradient in a directio... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7974472 | Feature design for HMM based Eastern Asian character recognition An exemplary method for online character recognition of East Asian characters includes acquiring time sequential, online ink data for a handwritten East Asian character, conditioning the ink data to produce conditioned ink data where the conditioned ink data include... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7958132 | Voting based scheme for electronic document node reuse Systems and methods for processing data transform a first data structure (e.g., a hierarchical data structure) into a second data structure (e.g., using a parsing system), wherein the second data structure includes a first set of leaf nodes under a first ancestor no... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953279 | Combining online and offline recognizers in a handwriting recognition system Described is a technology by which online recognition of handwritten input data is combined with offline recognition and processing to obtain a combined recognition result. In general, the combination improves overall recognition accuracy. In one aspect, online and ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7929769 | Script recognition for ink notes Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions distinguish the script type of at least one portion of a writing input. At least one sub-word of a writing line of a handwritten document is identified and is processed to determine the associated writi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929770 | Handwriting processing apparatus and method A handwriting processing apparatus and method effective for search of, e.g., a document file including handwriting is provided. When a handwriting characters are input to a coordinate input unit as a search key, a corresponding character in a dictionary is recognize... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925092 | Hand writing input device A hand-writing input device comprises: an input surface, a guidance device provided on the input surface along a predetermined track to guide a finger or pen along the track; a plurality of switch elements provided at particular positions on the track. When a partic... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907779 | Game apparatus and storage medium storing a handwriting input program A game apparatus displays a game screen of 9×9 grid, for example, of a Sudoku puzzle on one LCD and an empty cell (cell to be answered) is large-displayed on the other LCD. A touch panel is provided on the LCD to allow a player to handwrite a numeral to fill in the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7876960 | System for recording information A system for recording information from a surface. The system includes a base having a surface provided with a first position code coding locations of a plurality of first points and. In a zone of the surface, a second position code codes locations of a plurality of... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869655 | System, computer software product and method for transmitting and processing handwritten data A system, computer program product and method are provided that smooth handwritten information following the transmission of handwritten data to a second computing device, thereby reducing the memory, processing and communications bandwidth requirements of a first c... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869654 | Electric paper reading system Objects of the present invention are to facilitate filling out by hand an electronic paper and to realize digitization of contents with which the electronic paper is filled out by hand with a simple structure. A read image is obtained by optically reading a reading-... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860315 | Touch input program and touch input device A game apparatus includes a CPU core. In response to a setting of a reverse input mode, the CPU core reverses vertically and horizontally BG/OBJ data corresponding to a question, and displays on an LCD an image based on the reversed BG/OBJ data. When a handwriting i... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7817858 | Communication terminal It is shown how to select and insert a non-textual, e.g. a smiley, into an application such as a chat application in a communication terminal. A smiley insertion area in the form of a hand writing input area is displayed under the control of a user interface applica... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7796818 | Freehand input method, freehand input device, and computer program product Execution commands corresponding to the type of gesture are stored and by acquiring coordinate values of accepted handwriting input including gesture on a display screen, handwriting is displayed. When handwriting input is accepted, display data of handwriting is up... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792363 | Use of level detection while capturing and presenting text with optical character recognition A system for presenting text found on an object. The system comprises an object manipulation subsystem configured to position the substantially planar object for imaging; an imaging module configured to capture an image of the substantially planar object; a text cap... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783109 | System for interactive note-taking A system for interactive note-taking is provided having a receiver for receiving interaction data from a note-taking device used to interact with a note-taking form having note-taking information and a plurality of coded tags printed thereon, and a processor for rec... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756337 | Method and apparatus for reducing reference character dictionary comparisons during handwriting recognition A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for performing handwriting recognition of a language having character stroke order rules. A stroke parameter set describing attributes of a handwritten stroke is calculated, and a user input indicates ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7729542 | Using edges and corners for character input A new unistroke text entry method for handheld or wearable devices is designed to provide high accuracy and stability of motion. The user makes characters by traversing the edges and diagonals of a geometric pattern, e.g. a square, imposed over the usual text input ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720286 | System and method for associating handwritten information with one or more objects via discontinuous regions of a printed pattern A system is provided that includes a pen-enabled computing arrangement having a capture interface and at least one processing element. The capture interface can capture an electronic input defining a stroke through a plurality of concatenated regions. In addition, t... | 05/18/2010 |
