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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2005
Michael M. Shilman, Seattle, WA (US);
Zile Wei, Beijing, CN;
Yu Zou, Beijing, CN;
Patrice Y. Simard, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sashi Raghupathy, Redmond, WA (US);
F. David Jones, Redmond, WA (US);
Charlton E. Lui, Redmond, WA (US);
Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;
Michael M. Shilman, Seattle, WA (US);
Zile Wei, Beijing, CN;
Yu Zou, Beijing, CN;
Patrice Y. Simard, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sashi Raghupathy, Redmond, WA (US);
F. David Jones, Redmond, WA (US);
Charlton E. Lui, Redmond, WA (US);
Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Electronic ink layout analysis systems and methods provide flexibility and efficiency in organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink. These layout analysis systems and methods allow users substantial freedom in entering electronic ink into a pen-based computer system. Using these systems and methods, a user's input digital ink is not constrained by requirements that a user write in a specific screen orientation, that a user write in one specific orientation on all portions of a page, or that a user write using a specific minimum or maximum sized stroke. Rather, the systems and methods freely allow the user to write anywhere on a given page, in any orientation or size, while still enabling effective and efficient handwriting recognition and other processing of the input digital ink.