Patent ID: 8131080

Claim:
A handwriting determination apparatus comprising: a handwriting input unit configured to acquire first handwriting data written by a user; a sequential gesture dictionary configured to store second handwriting data corresponding to a time from pen down to pen up and store a first command corresponding to the second handwriting data and executed with a device to which the apparatus is connected, the pen down and the pen up being performed by a user's pen or a user's finger; a sequential gesture determination unit configured to sequentially acquire third handwriting data corresponding to from a time of pen down to a time before pen up and sequentially search the sequential gesture dictionary for a second command corresponding to the third handwriting data; the sequential gesture determination unit configured to, when the second command is searched out from the sequential gesture dictionary, execute the second command; a character string dictionary configured to store one-stroke handwriting data corresponding to not less than one stroke and store a command which is made to correspond to the one-stroke handwriting data, the one-stroke handwriting data corresponding to a time from pen down to pen up; a character string determination unit configured to search the character string dictionary for a character string corresponding to the first, second, and third handwriting data, when the character string determination unit acquires the one-stroke handwriting data; and the sequential gesture determination unit configured to output the character string, when the character string is searched out from the character string dictionary.