Recognizing commands written onto a medium
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDhananjay V. Keskar, Mic Bowman
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Abstract
A method includes obtaining a scanned command mark written with a conventional writing implement onto a conventional medium, and recognizing the scanned command mark as a command that may be executed by a processor. The method may further include recognizing a command mark that comprises a notational, transformational and operational mark.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- obtaining a scanned handwritten command mark written with a conventional writing implement onto a conventional medium, wherein the conventional writing implement includes at least one of a pen and pencil and wherein the conventional medium includes at least one of a piece of paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, or cloth;
- and
- recognizing the scanned handwritten command mark as a command that may be executed by a processor, wherein the scanned handwritten command mark is recognized only if the scanned handwritten command mark is placed on a specified area of the conventional medium.
A method comprising:
- detecting stroke information associated with making a handwritten command mark with a conventional writing implement on a conventional medium, wherein the conventional writing implement includes at least one of a pen and pencil and wherein the conventional medium includes at least one of a piece of paper, cardboard, plastic, or cloth;
- and
- recognizing the handwritten command mark as a command that may be executed by a computer processor, wherein the handwritten command mark is recognized only if the handwritten command mark is placed on a specified area of the conventional medium.
An article comprising a machine-readable medium that stores machine-executable instructions for recognizing a command mark handwritten with a conventional writing implement onto a conventional medium, wherein the conventional writing implement includes at least one of a pen and pencil and wherein the conventional medium includes at least one of a piece of paper, cardboard, plastic, metal or cloth, the instructions causing a machine to:
- recognize the handwritten command mark as a command that may be executed in a processor, wherein the handwritten command mark is recognized only if the handwritten command mark is written on a specific area of the conventional medium.
A command recognition apparatus, comprising:
- a memory that stores executable instructions;
- and
- a processor that executes the instructions to:
- recognize a scanned image of a command mark as a command that may be executed by a computer processor, wherein the command mark is handwritten with at least one of a pen and pencil onto a conventional medium, the conventional medium including at least one of a piece of paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, or cloth, wherein the command mark is recognized only if the command mark is written on a specific area of the medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.