System, Method, and Apparatus for Continuous Character Recognition

An article comprising:

• a storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a computing platform, result in execution of a method comprising:
• drawing a desired character in a continuous stroke order using a stylus on a touch screen;
• inputting an associated data of the continuous stroke order, as the continuous stroke order continues, into a continuous character recognizer via the touch screen;
• producing one or more hypothesis candidate characters including the associated data of the continuous stroke order by the continuous character recognizer upon a partial recognition of the associated data;
• and
• displaying the produced one or more hypothesis candidate characters substantially over the drawn continuous stroke order on a display device.

An apparatus for continuous character entry recognition comprising:

• a touch screen [220] and a pen [210] for drawing a desired character in a continuous stroke order;
• a continuous character recognizer [930] coupled to the touch screen [220] that is responsive to the drawn continuous stroke order of the desired character, wherein the continuous character recognizer [930] generates one or more potential list of characters including the continuous stroke order of the desired character upon a substantially partial recognition of the continuous stroke order;
• and
• a display device [230] coupled to the continuous character recognizer [930] to display the generated one or more potential list of characters in a light contrasting color, wherein the continuous character recognizer [930] to continuously reduce the generated one or more potential list of characters as the drawing of the desired character continuous over the one of the generated one or more potential list of characters, and wherein the display device [230] to continuously update the displayed generated one or more potential list of characters as a function of the reduced potential list of candidate characters by the continuous character recognizer [930] until the drawing of the desired character is completed.

A computer system [900] for continuous recognition of a character entry into a computer comprising:

• a network interface [912];
• an input module coupled to the network interface [912] that receives the input data stream via the network interface [912];
• a processing unit [902];
• a memory [904] coupled to the processing unit [902];
• a user input device [916] for drawing a desired character in a continuous stroke order;
• a continuous character recognizer [930] coupled to the touch screen [220] that is responsive to the drawn continuous stroke order of the desired character, wherein the continuous character recognizer [930] generates one or more potential list of characters including the continuous stroke order of the desired character upon a substantially partial recognition;
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• an output device [918] coupled to the continuous character recognizer [930] to display the generated one or more hypothesis candidate characters in a light contrasting color, wherein the continuous character recognizer [930] to continuously reduce the generated one or more hypothesis candidate characters as the drawing of the desired character continuous over the one of the generated one or more hypothesis candidate characters, and wherein the output device [918] to continuously update the displayed generated one or more hypothesis candidate characters as a function of the reduced hypothesis candidate characters by the continuous character recognizer [930] until the drawing of desired character is completed.