Method and apparatus for developing a character recognition dictionary

Computer-executable process steps stored on a computer-readable medium, the steps to recognize patterns on the basis of a recognition dictionary, the steps comprising:

• a receiving step to receive a user's selection of one candidate character among a plurality of displayed candidate characters obtained by recognizing one input pattern;
• an update step to update a frequency information assigned respectively to a plurality of reference patterns on the basis of the user's selection of said one candidate character;
• a reconfiguring step to reconfigure an order of reference patterns stored in the recognition dictionary on the basis of a relationship between the updated frequency information assigned to respective reference patterns;
• and
• a recognizing step to recognize patterns on the basis of the reconfigured recognition dictionary.

A pattern recognizing method in which patterns are recognized on the basis of a recognition dictionary, said pattern recognizing method comprising the steps of:

• displaying a plurality of candidate characters obtained by recognizing one input pattern;
• updating a frequency information assigned respectively to a plurality of reference patterns on the basis of a user's selection of one candidate character among the displayed candidate characters;
• reconfiguring an order of reference patterns stored in the recognition dictionary on the basis of a relationship between the updated frequency information;
• and
• recognizing patterns on the basis of the reconfigured recognition dictionary.