Handwriting layout analysis of freeform digital ink input

US7050632B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Shilman · Seattle, US
• Zile Wei · Berkeley, US
• Yu Zou · Beijing, CN
• Patrice Y. Simard · Bellevue, US
• Sashi Raghupathy · Redmond, US
• F. David Jones · Redmond, US
• Charlton E. Lui · Redmond, US
• Jian Wang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 2002
• Grant date: May 23, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06V30/1423
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Electronic ink layout analysis systems and methods provide flexibility and efficiency in organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink. These layout analysis systems and methods allow users substantial freedom in entering electronic ink into a pen-based computer system. Using these systems and methods, a user's input digital ink is not constrained by requirements that a user write in a specific screen orientation, that a user write in one specific orientation on all portions of a page, or that a user write using a specific minimum or maximum sized stroke. Rather, the systems and methods freely allow the user to write anywhere on a given page, in any orientation or size, while still enabling effective and efficient handwriting recognition and other processing of the input digital ink.