Information processing apparatus

摘要

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus comprising: a screen (31), pointing means (16) for pointing any position on said screen (31), coordinates detecting means (32) for detecting coordinates of the position pointed by said pointing means (16), storage means (37) for storing reference strokes, recognizing means (1, 36) for comparing a stroke formed by successive coordinates output from said coordinates detecting means (32) with the reference strokes, and outputting an edit instruction corresponding to a reference stroke which is a closest match to the stroke, and editing means (38) for editing information displayed on said screen (31) according to the edit instruction, and judging means (51) for judging whether a position corresponding to first coordinates which are first detected by said coordinates detecting means (32) is in a predetermined effective area on said screen (31). In this apparatus said recognizing means (1, 36) outputs an edit instruction corresponding to the stroke including said first coordinates when said first coordinates are judged to be in the effective area by said judging means (51).