Method and system for data entry of handwritten symbols
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsLloyd Frink, Byron Dean Bishop
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Abstract
A method and system for data entry of handwritten text into a computer program that is not designed to accept handwritten text is provided. In preferred embodiments, the computer program is designed to operate in a windowing environment. A data entry program receives handwritten data, recognizes the data, and sends the recognized data to the computer program. The computer program processes the recognized data as if it had been entered from the keyboard. According to the present invention, the data entry program overlaps the window of the computer program with an invisible window. To the user, it looks as if the computer program is accepting handwritten data directly.
Claims10
In a computer system, a method comprising:
- receiving pen input in an input area of a digitizer;
- converting, in a software program, the pen input into a key event;
- and
- providing the key event to an application program, the application program separate from the software program such that the application program need not process the pen input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.