Patent ID: 9274704
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A method of an electronic apparatus, comprising: displaying a first area to input a search key for searching a handwritten document on a screen; detecting a n-th stroke (n is a positive integer) made on the first area of the screen; displaying the n-th stroke on the screen; searching, by a hardware processor, handwritings for a first handwriting candidate in response to an input of the n-th stroke, wherein at least part of the first handwriting matches first to the n-th strokes; displaying the first handwriting candidate in a second area; detecting a n+1-th stroke made on the first area of the screen; displaying the n+1-th stroke in the first area on the screen; searching, by the hardware processor, the handwritings for a second handwriting candidate in response to an input of the n+1-th stroke, wherein at least part of the second handwriting matches first to the n+1-th strokes; displaying the first handwriting candidate with a first priority and the second handwriting candidate with a second priority higher than the first priority in the second area of the screen; searching, by the hardware processor, the handwritten document for a first part of the handwritten document if the first handwriting candidate is selected by a user wherein the first part matches the first handwriting candidate; and searching, by the hardware processor, the handwritten document for a second part of the handwritten document, if the second handwriting candidate is selected by a user, wherein the second part matches the second handwriting candidate.