Appeal No. 1998-1386 Page 2
Application No. 08/269,156
systems seek to determine the most likely alphanumeric
characters written by a user. Such writing is done on a
digitizing tablet, which transforms movement of the user’s
stylus into “ink data.” Segmentation processing and context
processing have both been used for handwriting recognition.
Segmentation processing relates to the shape of a character.
Context processing relates to whether a character is
meaningful in the literal context of other likely characters.
Speed and accuracy are the primary design considerations
for handwriting recognition systems. Speed is affected by how
a computer’s processing time is allocated to a recognition
task. Prior recognition systems postponed the processing of
ink data until all of the ink data were provided by a user.
Such an approach, however, failed to efficiently use
processing time that was available when the computer was
collecting ink data.
Speed and accuracy are both affected by the order in
which the ink data are processed. Prior recognition systems
performed segmentation processing first, followed by context
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