Appeal No. 2000-2065
Application No. 08/652,160
handwriting. See Appellants' specification, page 5, lines 21-24.
The invention includes a handwriting preprocessor (54) which
performs the operations shown in steps 350, 352, 354, and 356 of
Figure 11. Step 350 receives digitized input and, for printed
characters, interpolates between consecutive strokes to create a
one stroke version of the printed character. Step 352 smooths
the interpolated characters. Step 354 scales all inputted
characters and step 356 resamples all characters. See
Appellants' specification, page 27, lines 13-19 and Figures 11
and 12.
Independent claim 17 present in the application is
reproduced as follows:
17. A method of recognizing a handwritten character comprising:
receiving an input of said handwritten character, wherein
said handwritten character is written with multiple strokes;
preprocessing said input to provide a one-stroke written
representation of said handwritten character wherein said
preprocessing comprises smoothing said points in said input,
scaling said points, and resampling said points; and,
recognizing said handwritten character, wherein said
recognizing is performed after said preprocessing.
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