Electronic text pen systems and methods
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsThomas BUCKLEY, Maria CIRIMELE, Robert MICKLE
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Abstract
A pen-enabled editor application for an electronic device is disclosed that provides adaptive guidelines for handwritten text. The adaptive guidelines are generated, in real time with the handwritten text, to allow the user to take advantage of the freeform input possibilities of a blank page, while still benefiting from the neatness and organization that results from writing on a lined page. The adaptive guidelines are generated and have a location and a length that changes with measured aspects of the handwritten input text, as the text is written. The handwritten input text may be provided by a pen device interacting with a display device of the electronic device.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, from an input component of an electronic device, a pen input comprising at least one character;
- determining that an input mode for the pen input is a text-input mode;
- identifying a feature of the at least one character in the pen input;
- determining a length of a guideline based on the identified feature of the at least one character;
- and
- providing for display, on a display device of the electronic device, a representation of the pen input and the guideline in response to receiving the at least one character in the pen input, wherein the guideline extends along and adjacent to at least a portion of the representation of the pen input and beyond an end of the representation of the pen input by the determined length.
A system, comprising:
- an input component;
- a display device;
- a memory comprising instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
- receive, from the input component, a pen input comprising at least one character;
- identify a size and a writing rate of the at least one character in the pen input;
- determine a length of a guideline based on the identified size and writing rate of the least one character in the pen input;
- and
- provide for display, on the display device, a representation of the pen input and the guideline in response to receiving the at least one character in the pen input,
- wherein the guideline extends along and adjacent to at least a portion of the representation of the pen input and beyond an end of the representation of the pen input by the determined length.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions for causing a processor to execute a method comprising:
- receiving, from an input component of an electronic device, a pen input comprising handwritten text;
- identifying features of the handwritten text in the pen input;
- determining a length of a guideline based on the identified features of the handwritten text;
- providing for display, on a display device of the electronic device, a representation of the handwritten text and a first guideline, wherein the first guideline extends along and adjacent to at least a portion of the representation of the handwritten text;
- and
- providing a second guideline, separated from the first guideline by a distance that is based on the identified features of the handwritten text,
- wherein the second guideline has the determined length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.