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5502461 Hand written character input system/allowing change of size of character writing frames  
On a liquid crystal display panel of the handwritten character input system, a data input frame is displayed, and in the data input frame, a plurality of character writing frames are displayed....
5502774 Automatic recognition of a consistent message using multiple complimentary sources of information  
A general approach is provided for the combined use of several sources of information in the automatic recognition of a consistent message. For each message unit (e.g., word) the total likelihood...
5481277 Character generator  
A character generator includes a memory for storing a plurality of character patterns for each character having a specified character code, the plurality of character patterns having different...
5481625 Handwritten character recognition device  
A handwritten character recognition device including: input unit for inputting handwriting thereon; stroke extracting unit for analyzing the handwriting in an X-axis and Y-axis direction, and...
5479531 Apparatus and method for providing a weighted average of time varying characteristic of handwriting  
The stress wave activity produced during a first generation of a piece of handwriting in an enrollment procedure is put into a store and the stress wave activities produced for subsequent...
5467407 Method and apparatus for recognizing cursive writing from sequential input information  
A method and apparatus for cursive script recognition employs an intermediate cursive words description language constructed of elements in the form of metastrokes wherein each of the metastrokes...
5465309 Method of and apparatus for character recognition through related spelling heuristics  
A method and apparatus for improving an OCR process for recognizing unidentified characters through the creation of sets of like unidentified characters in a scanned image, deducing what the...
5455901 Input device with deferred translation  
Improved data entry for handwriting entry computer systems, including "delayed translation" of written strokes, is provided. After a user has entered data into a handwriting entry computer system,...
5454046 Universal symbolic handwriting recognition system  
A universal symbolic handwriting recognition system for converting user entered time ordered stroke sequences into computer readable text is described. The system operates on two levels: (1) a...
5452371 Method of aligning shapes on a display of a computer system  
An apparatus for recognizing shapes characterized by a stroke grouper receptive to a plurality of strokes formed on a screen of a pen-based computer system; a shape recognition engine receptive to...
5450537 Method and apparatus for completing a partially completed document in accordance with a blank form from data automatically retrieved from a database  
A method and apparatus is provided for completing a document in accordance with a blank tabularized form document from data automatically retrieved from a database. An image of the blank form...
5448475 Word processing apparatus with handwriting input function  
A word processing apparatus includes a document data memory, a display, a handwriting input unit for handwriting an edition symbol onto a data portion of the displayed document data, a count unit...
5442715 Method and apparatus for cursive script recognition  
A method and apparatus for performing cursive script recognition is disclosed, wherein a cursive word, in the form of digitized data or bitmap, is simultaneously segmented and individual characters...
5434929 Method and apparatus for setting character style preferences in a pen-based computer system  
In one method for setting character style preferences according to the present invention, a character style preference area is initially activated. Then, a plurality of variant character styles are...
5434928 Method for verifying a handwritten signature entered into a digitizer  
A handwriting verification method which is less expensive to implement than previous methods, employs simpler algorithms than previous methods, and which requires fewer points than previous...
5426711 Online handwritten character recognition  
An online handwritten character recognition system which performs the narrowing of candidates for handwritten character recognition quickly and very accurately by simple processing of a small...
5425109 System for identifying freehand drawings  
A system for identifying freehand curve drawings has: an input section for inputting a freehand curve drawing as a series of point data; a fuzzy-curve information generating section for generating...
5416892 Best first search considering difference between scores  
A best first search for problem-solving in an artificial intelligence system employing a novel search priority index is disclosed. The search priority index is calculated based on a difference...
5414228 Handwritten character input device  
The present invention discloses a handwritten character input device for entering a handwritten character into a microcomputer accommodated inside of the handwritten character input device, the...
5410612 Apparatus and method for recognizing characters  
An apparatus and method for recognizing characters in image information includes inputting image coordinate data corresponding to the handwritten image, displaying a calligraphic image on the basis...
5404000 Embossed character reader for data card terminal  
A data card terminal, such as a credit card transaction terminal, is disclosed. The terminal includes a transaction terminal comprising an embossed character reader and magnetic stripe reader, with...
5396566 Estimation of baseline, line spacing and character height for handwriting recognition  
A line space baseline adjuster in a handwriting recognition system achieves improved recognition accuracy by normalizing the Cartesian coordinates of the writings captured by a digitizer to...
5392363 On-line connected handwritten word recognition by a probabilistic method  
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for recognizing handwritten words in response to an input signal from a handwriting transducer. The method includes the steps of: (a) partitioning the input...
5390260 Method and apparatus for on-line, real time recognition of stroked hand-drawn characters  
Disclosed is a method and multiprocessor apparatus to convert an alphanumeric input into input to an application program as a text processing or word processing program. This is accomplished in a...
5361310 Handwriting entry processing system using keyboard and mouse interfaces requiring no modification of an application program  
A handwriting entry processing system used in a tablet type handwriting entry device includes a display unit, an area decision unit, a recognition processing unit, a designation unit and an...
5343537 Statistical mixture approach to automatic handwriting recognition  
Method and apparatus for automatic recognition of handwritten text based on a suitable representation of handwriting in one or several feature vector spaces(s), Gaussian modeling in each space, and...
5341438 Method and apparatus for segmenting and classifying unconstrained handwritten characters  
A character recognition system including a method and apparatus for pre-processing handwritten characters prior to segmentation and classification is disclosed. The method includes the steps of...
5333209 Method of recognizing handwritten symbols  
An unknown handwritten symbol written on a digitizing tablet is compared with symbols in a predefined "alphabet" or library of model symbols and the closest match chosen. Recognition is independent...
5319721 Methods and apparatus for evolving a starter set of handwriting prototypes into a user-specific set  
A method for use in a handwriting recognition system, and apparatus for accomplishing the method, that generates a User set of prototype symbols. The method includes the steps of (a) inputting one...
5315667 On-line handwriting recognition using a prototype confusability dialog  
A handwriting recognition system in which a user, on-line can reduce similarity between different prototypes. The user interactively can delete a prototype or add a new prototype, while at the same...
5313528 Method for extracting features from on-line handwritten characters  
A method provides for extracting features from a handwritten character which is input to an on-line input device. The on-line input device successively outputs stroke information indicating points...
5287415 Elastic prototype averaging in online handwriting recognition  
An elastic-matching alignment technique for providing an averaged prototype in a handwriting recognition system that improves the alignment of parametric representations of recognized characters to...
5285505 Method and apparatus for improving prototypes of similar characters in on-line handwriting recognition  
A method, and apparatus for accomplishing same, of providing character prototypes for use by a handwriting character recognition system 10. A first method includes a first step of providing a first...
RE34476 Hybrid information management system for handwriting and text  
A computer system used with special input hardware for providing the benefits of computerization to handwritten as well as keyboard entered information to meet a wide spectrum of...
5267327 Apparatus and method for registering the handwriting of a user so it can be translated into block characters  
An information processing apparatus with a hand-writing character recognition function includes an input device having a pen and tablet for inputting a user's hand-writing character information,...
5187330 Positional determination  
A system for positional determination includes an array of piezoelectric sensor electrodes connected to an array of output lines via resistors for providing a binary code in response to activation...
5177793 Accurate recognition of input patterns  
On recognizing first through P-th input patterns as first through P-th recognized patterns (P being greater than one) by using a plurality of reference patterns and a plurality of memorized...
5151950 Method for recognizing handwritten characters using shape and context analysis  
An improved pattern recognition system, using an improved method for merging low-level recognition information with auxiliary contextual information such as a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA)....
5113452 Hand-written character recognition apparatus and method  
A hand-written character recognition apparatus and method in which line element data obtained from an output hand-written stroke is converted to a plurality of sub-strokes satisfying a tracing...
5107541 Method and apparatus for capturing information in drawing or writing  
Obtaining data for signature recognition or data entry are relatively expensive because the apparatus used at each entry point is fairly complex. The present invention employs a relatively...
5105468 Time delay neural network for printed and cursive handwritten character recognition  
A time delay neural network is defined having feature detection layers which are constrained for extracting features and subsampling a sequence of feature vectors input to the particular feature...
5058182 Method and apparatus for handwritten character recognition  
A method and apparatus is provided for written character recognition. The method includes thresholding an input gray level character image to derive its bilevel image, extracting stroke-based...
5029223 Constraint driven-on line recognition of handwritten characters and symbols  
Method and apparatus for identifying a valid symbol or a string of valid symbols from a sequence of handwritten strokes. A method includes the steps of (a) generating in response to one or more...
5023918 Cross-product filter  
Method and apparatus for filtering a sequence of digital values representative of endpoints of vectors which represent the stroke of a writing instrument on a writing tablet. The cross-product and...
5022086 Handwriting apparatus for information collection based on force and position  
An apparatus for collecting information directly at a point on a surface comprises the combination of a stylus with means for sensing force along at least one axis in a surface at a point on the...
5010579 Hand-written, on-line character recognition apparatus and method  
A hand-written, on-line character recognition apparatus, and the method employed by it, in which the structure of a dictionary for recognition is formed as a sub-routine type, whereby the...
5008948 System for recognizing handwritten letters  
A handwritten letter recognition system comprises a reading unit and a recognition unit which are connected to a local area network. In the reading unit, a handwritten letter is read by a reading...
5005205 Handwriting recognition employing pairwise discriminant measures  
In a handwriting recognition system a method for differentiating a first character from a second character having similar characteristics. The method includes the steps of determining during a...
5001765 Fast spatial segmenter for handwritten characters  
A character recognition system 10 includes a segmentation processor 12 which is coupled between an electronic tablet 14 and a character recognizer 18. The tablet 14 has an associated stylus or pen...
4985929 System for use in processing a speech by the use of stenographs  
A speech is processed by instantaneously converting sounds of the speech into a sequence of stenographs which are read in the form of first electric signals representative of the stenographs. The...
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