Patent Document ID: 6035063
Application ID: 08868071
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An online character recognition system which calculates an inter-stroke distance between each standard stroke generated in advance by quantizing strokes of a known character and each input stroke of an input character, for recognizing said input character online using the inter-stroke distance, comprising: first storage means for storing said each standard stroke; second storage means for storing a plurality of known categories; third storage means for storing relationship data, wherein said relationship data specifies at least one relationship between said each standard stroke stored in said first storage means and said known categories in which said each standard stroke appears; standard stroke control means for detecting input stroke data of said input character, wherein said input character is comprised of a sequence of input strokes, and wherein said standard stroke control means compares said input stroke data with said relationship data stored in said third storage means, and selects corresponding standard strokes, stored in said first storage means, whose said relationship data is in accord with said input stroke data; inter-stroke distance calculating means for calculating an inter-stroke distance between the corresponding standard strokes read by said standard stroke control means and said each input stroke; and character recognition means for recognizing said input character based on the inter-stroke distance calculated by said inter-stroke distance calculating means.