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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1998
Giovanni Seni, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Seybold, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Handwritten ink is scanned to identify potential diacriticals. A list of diacriticals ( ) is generated by traversing the ink. Potential diacritical-containing characters are processed by scoring them with and without a diacritical to generate a first and second score. The first score is compared to the second score to in order to make a decision as to which variant of the potential diacritical-containing character produced a highest score. The highest score is used as a score for a theory and the decision is recorded. A data structure ( ) is added to the theory. Each data unit in the data structure ( ) corresponds to an entry in the list of diacriticals ( ). As a new theory is created by propagation, contents of the data structure ( ) are copied into the new theory. Thus, the data structure ( ) is used to ensure that all handwritten ink is used and is used only once.