Patent Document ID: 20050270289
Application ID: 10914112
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer readable storage medium for storing a graphics identification program to be executed by a computer for identifying a graphical shape of a trace drawn by a user on an input surface of an input device, wherein the graphics identification program causes the computer to execute: a detection step of detecting the trace drawn on the input surface as coordinate points in chronological order; a coordinate point selection step of selecting coordinate points for representing the trace from among a group of the coordinate points in which the detected coordinate points are arranged in chronological order; a length calculation step of calculating lengths of line segments obtained by connecting the selected coordinate points in chronological order; an angle calculation step of calculating, for each line segment, an absolute angle which the line segment forms with a previously determined reference straight line or a relative angle which the line segment forms with a line segment adjacent thereto; and a graphics identification step of comparing a trace graph in an orthogonal coordinate system, whose first axis indicates a distance from a starting point or an ending point of the selected coordinate points to each coordinate point along the line segment and whose second axis indicates an angle of the line segment whose start point is one of the selected coordinate points, with reference graphic graphs respectively representing a plurality of types of previously prepared reference graphics in the orthogonal coordinate system, and identifying a reference graphic represented by a reference graphic graph which most closely resembles the trace graph as a shape of the trace.