Patent ID: 6931153

Claim:
A portable handwritten character recognition apparatus having a character string input area of a size that allows a plurality of characters to be handwritten thereon for a user to input a handwritten character string, said apparatus comprising: a coordinate string detection unit that detects a coordinate string of each stroke that makes up an input handwritten character string in the character string input area, the character string input area being composed of a single frame in which one or more handwritten characters are recognized; an input completion judgement unit that judges, when a first coordinate of one of the strokes is detected in a first area which is at a side of the character string input area where writing of the handwritten character string starts, whether an input of an immediately preceding handwritten character string is complete; and a segmentation recognition unit that segments, when said input completion detection unit judges the input to be complete, stroke strings for each character from all the strokes of the immediately preceding handwritten character string, recognizes each character, and outputs a character string which is a recognition result; wherein said input completion judgment unit includes: a first coordinate judgement unit that judges, when an X value of a first coordinate of a stroke is X 1 or less, X 1 being a width of the first area, that the first coordinate is in the first area.