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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
May. 20, 1996
Michael Mehrdad Hoghooghi, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Thomas Edward Buss, Madison, AL (US);
John Lorne Seybold, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ronjon Nag, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Elton B Sherwin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A cellular telephone (100) has a receiver (506) and a transmitter (508) and a detachable battery (106) retrofitted for entering handwritten information and for providing power to the cellular telephone (100). The detachable battery (106) has a digitizer (552) for accepting the handwritten information, a recognition engine (560), coupled to the digitizer (552), for generating readable characters from the handwritten information. The detachable battery also has a memory (558), coupled to the recognition engine (560), for storing the readable characters and an output port (116) for transferring readable characters from the detachable battery (106).