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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
May. 29, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods for automatic language detection for handwritten text are performed by systems and devices. Such automatic language detection is performed prior to sending representations of the handwritten text to a language recognition engine. Handwritten inputs including one or more writing strokes are received from an input interface, and are associated with coordinates of the inputs and times that the inputs are made. The handwritten inputs are grouped into words based on the coordinates and times. Writing strokes are normalized, and then the words are individually transformed to generate language vectors, such as through a recurrent neural network. The language vectors are used to determine language probabilities for the handwritten inputs. Based on the language probabilities, the handwritten inputs are provided to a specific language recognition engine to determine the language thereof prior to translation or transcription.