Patent ID: 9378427
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An electronic device comprising: a display processor configured to display on a screen a plurality of strokes input by handwriting; a hardware processor configured to determine a top-and-bottom direction for each of the plurality of strokes; and a storage processor configured to store in a storage medium handwritten data, the handwritten data comprising a plurality of stroke data corresponding to the plurality of strokes, and a plurality of pieces of direction information relating to a top-and-bottom direction of each of the plurality of strokes, wherein the hardware processor is configured to determine a top-and-bottom direction of each of the plurality of strokes, by using at least either a direction of inclination of the device which is determined in accordance with an output of an acceleration sensor in the device, or a positional relationship between the device and a user which is determined in accordance with a result of face recognition using an image captured by a camera module of the device; wherein the display processor is configured to select stroke data having a top-and-bottom direction agreeing with a present direction of inclination of the device, from between at least one first stroke data having a top-and-bottom direction which is a first direction, and at least one second stroke data having a top-and-bottom direction which is a second direction that is different from the first direction, and to display at least one stroke corresponding to the selected stroke data on the screen.