Assisting handwritten input to a computing device by automatic scrolling or panning

摘要

A portable computing device includes a handwriting management program for assisting a user to input handwritten data to the device. The handwriting management program comprises a program that controls the graphical user interface (GUI) presented in the display when the user handwrites a document. It "moves" a virtual page across the display while the user enters handwrites text or other input using a handwriting algorithm so that the user can handwrite characters and words without moving his or her hand across the display. With this manner of control, the user may handwrite continuously without running out of space on the display and therefore without having to manually move his or her writing implement down to a next line of the display or virtual page. Therefore, the user may handwrite lines of text or other input that are longer than the width of the display.