Patent ID: 7634718

Claim:
A handwritten information input apparatus, comprising: an input/output apparatus including a handwriting input region for receiving a handwritten input of a character, a symbol, or a graphic and displaying an input pencraft, and an input item region for displaying the character, the symbol, or the graphic as a recognition result of the pencraft for each input item; a pencraft selection processing part for receiving a handwritten input that selects at least a part of the pencraft displayed in the handwriting input region, and confirming the selected pencraft; a pencraft recognizing part for recognizing the selected pencraft when the selected pencraft is confirmed by the pencraft selection processing part, converting the pencraft into a character, a symbol, or a graphic as a recognition result, and allowing a revision of the recognition result if the recognition result is not correct; an item storing part for previously storing a title of an input item to be displayed in the input item region; an item selection processing part for generating an item title list for allowing an operator to select which input item in the item title list a recognition result of the pencraft recognizing part is sent to, based on the title stored in the item storing part and switching a display item in the input item region so that the input item selected in the item title list is displayed; and an item input part for sending the character, the symbol, or the graphic as the recognition result of the pencraft recognizing part to the input item region of the input item selected in the item title list, thereby displaying the character, the symbol, or the graphic.