Patent ID: 8665222

Claim:
A handwriting-input device comprising: an input unit; a display screen on which a normalized pencraft input area for inputting and displaying a pencraft that is to be reduced in size and a pencraft arrangement area for inputting and displaying a pencraft are displayed as separate areas from each other; a coordinate input part to obtain coordinate position information on a pencraft input by the input unit; and an input area judgment part to judge which of the normalized pencraft input area and the pencraft arrangement area the pencraft is to be input in, based on the coordinate position information, wherein, based on a judgment result by the input area judgment part, once it is judged that the pencraft is input in the normalized pencraft input area by the input unit, the input pencraft is displayed on the normalized pencraft input area, once it is judged that the pencraft is input in the pencraft arrangement area by the input unit, the pencraft is not input in the normalized pencraft input area, and there is no pencraft that has already been input at an input position of the pencraft in the pencraft arrangement area, the input pencraft is displayed so as to exactly preserve a shape of the pencraft in the pencraft arrangement area, once it is judged that a first coordinate position of the pencraft as input by the input unit is included in the pencraft arrangement area, and there is a pencraft or a pencraft group that has already been input in the normalized pencraft input area, the pencraft or the pencraft group present in the normalized pencraft input area is reduced in size, so as to exactly preserve a shape of the pencraft or the pencraft group, and displayed at the first coordinate position of the pencraft as input in the pencraft arrangement area, and once it is judged that the first coordinate position of the pencraft to be input by the input unit is included in the pencraft arrangement area, there is no pencraft that has already been input in the normalized pencraft input area and a pencraft or a pencraft group has already been input at the first coordinate position of the input pencraft, the pencraft or the pencraft group that has already been input is rearranged in the pencraft arrangement area.