A METHOD FOR HANDWRITING INPUT AND CORRECTION ON SMARTPHONES

Gareth LOUDON, Olle PELLIJEFF, Li ZHONG­WEI

Cyberlab Singapore, Ericsson Research,
#18­00 SLF Building, 510 Thomson Road, Singapore 298135
gareth.loudon@ericsson.com,
olle.pellijeff@ericsson.com,
zhong­wei.li@ericsson.com

This paper describes a new approach for entering text on a "Smartphone" via natural handwriting input. The approach focuses on ease of use within the confines of a Smartphone display size and processing limitations. Therefore there are two integrated components to the approach. The first is a new handwriting recognition engine that has been designed to have a very high recognition accuracy (98.3% character accuracy), support sentence­based handwriting input, and have a small memory footprint (84 kb) and fast processing time. The second is a method that allows very simple editing and correction of recognized characters.

In: L.R.B. Schomaker and L.G. Vuurpijl (Eds.)
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers
in Handwriting Recognition, September 11-13 2000, Amsterdam,
Nijmegen: International Unipen Foundation,
ISBN 90-76942-01-3
pp. 481-486.