Patent Document ID: 8204310
Application ID: 13118045

Base Claim:
1. A storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, configure the processing unit to perform acts comprising: acquiring time sequential, ink data for a handwritten East Asian character; producing conditioned ink data that comprises information in form of a writing sequence of the handwritten East Asian character; extracting features from the conditioned ink data, the features comprising at least one of a tangent feature, a curvature feature, a local length feature, a connection point feature, or an imaginary stroke feature; and using a Hidden Markov Model to provide an East Asian character that corresponds to the features being extracted.

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Claim 7:
7. The storage device of claim 1 , wherein the connection point feature is used for determining one or more connection point features for a neighborhood, the one or more connection point features comprises at least one of a “X” connection point or a “T” connection point.