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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jannes G. A. Dolfing, Daly City, CA (US);
Karl M. Groethe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan S. Dixon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Saratoga, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed.