Patent ID: 7885464

Claim:
A handwriting recognition apparatus comprising: an input device including a handwriting input area and configured to input a plurality of strokes constructing a plurality of characters written successively on the handwriting input area; and a recognition device configured to; generate, whenever one stroke is input by the input device, a candidate for a recognized character string with respect to the presently inputted strokes; collate shapes of the presently inputted strokes with shapes of characters of the candidate, based on a dictionary of character structure; collate first positional relations between the presently inputted strokes with second positional relations between strokes of each character of the candidate, based on the dictionary of character structure; and collate the first positional relations with third positional relations between strokes of one character and strokes of another character in the candidate, based on a dictionary of biliteral structure, to obtain a first recognized character string, the dictionary of the biliteral structure having a plurality of registered biliteral structure data items, each of the biliteral structure data items indicating structural relation between two characters which are written successively such that one of the two characters is superimposed on the other, the structural relation between the two characters indicating positional relations at least between one or more strokes that configures a first character of the two characters to one or more strokes that configures a second character of the two characters, in a case when the first and second characters are written successively.