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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2006
Tetsuo Seto, Bellevue, WA (US);
Takanobu Murayama, Seattle, WA (US);
Tetsuo Seto, Bellevue, WA (US);
Takanobu Murayama, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In a computer system that accepts handwritten input, a digitizer tracks the location of a user's pen while the pen is not in contact with the digitizer's writing surface. The digitizer maps the pen's three-dimensional location into a two-dimensional location on the digitizer's writing surface. Handwriting-recognition is triggered for handwriting entered into a handwriting-recognition task area upon detecting that the user has lifted the pen off of the digitizer's writing surface and that the pen has moved out of proximity from the handwriting-recognition task area. The handwriting-recognition triggering may be inhibited when the pen is down and in contact with the digitizer's writing surface in an inking orientation.