Patent ID: 6618504
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
A business management system comprising:a reading apparatus, which comprises a structure that secures a writing medium to be handwritten upon and detects coordinates of a pen point while items are being written by pen on said writing medium, and generates and transmits handwriting data representing, for each writing medium, coordinate changes over time for said pen point; a character recognition apparatus that performs character recognition on said handwriting data; and a business processing apparatus that executes prescribed business processes based on recognized character strings; said reading apparatus is configured so that one writing medium can be selected from among one or more types of writing media by the operations of a writer; and said character recognition apparatus comprises: means for referencing style definition data that specify a format for a writing medium selected by said reading apparatus, and performing position correction processing on a writing medium based on said handwriting data transmitted from said reading apparatus; and means for performing character recognition on said handwriting data while referencing said style definition data after position correction.