Patent ID: 8600163

Claim:
A handwriting determination apparatus comprising: a handwriting input unit configured to acquire first handwriting data written by a user; a one-stroke gesture dictionary configured to store one-stroke handwriting data and a first command as an instruction, the instruction corresponding to the one-stroke handwriting data and being executed with a device to which the apparatus is connected; a one-stroke gesture determination unit configured to search the one-stroke gesture dictionary for the first command corresponding to the one-stroke handwriting data corresponding to one stroke of the first handwriting data; the one-stroke gesture determination unit configured to execute the first command searched out from the one-stroke gesture dictionary; a sequential gesture dictionary configured to store one-stroke handwriting data and a second command as an instruction which corresponds to the one-stroke handwriting data, the second command being different from the first command; a character string determination unit configured to, while the one stroke of the first handwriting data is being acquired, regard the first handwriting data as one-stroke handwriting data at predetermined time intervals and search the sequential gesture dictionary for the second command corresponding to the one-stroke handwriting data; and the sequential gesture determination unit configured to execute the corresponding second command searched out from the sequential gesture dictionary, wherein when the corresponding second command is searched out from the sequential gesture dictionary, the one-stroke gesture determination unit regards a handwriting handwritten so far as one stroke, and searches the one-stroke gesture dictionary for the first command corresponding to the one-stroke handwriting data corresponding to the one stroke, and when the first command is searched out, the sequential gesture determination unit cancels a planned second command.