Patent ID: 6408092
Filing Date: 2002-06-18
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
A method for processing handwritten input received as marks made on a machine-readable tablet, comprising:providing a plurality of predefined regions for input on the tablet; receiving from a user handwritten marks made in a current region of the plurality of predefined regions; receiving from the user an indication that the marks in the current region are complete and thereupon providing a different one of the plurality of predefined regions as the current region in which to receive handwritten marks made by the user, whereby completed marks are received in a sequence of at least two regions; repeating the acts of receiving marks and providing a different region until the user indicates that the handwritten input is complete, wherein a region can be reused as a current region without overwriting marks previously made by the user in the region when it was previously the current region; and representing the handwritten input as a concatenation of the completed marks as written in the sequence of regions, the completed marks being concatenated in a writing direction, the completed marks having positions with respect to each other defined by a logical concatenation of their respective regions in the sequence in which regions were marked.