Method and apparatus for on-line handwritten input character recognition and recording medium for executing the method

摘要

The invention aims at recognition of a handwritten input character on-line with quite high accuracy. The method of on-line handwritten input character recognition of the invention is characterized in that ordinary strokes and transition strokes and/or s-e strokes of a handwritten input character sampled on-line are compared with ordinary strokes and transition strokes and/or s-e strokes of dictionary's characters previously registered in a dictionary and the character corresponding to the handwritten input character is recognized on the basis of the result of the comparison. Otherwise, when the dictionary's character most similar to the input character corresponds to a preset character, the handwritten input character is identified by using characteristic features of the corresponding character. Thus, by comparing ordinary strokes and transition strokes and/or s-e strokes of a handwritten input character sampled on-line with ordinary strokes and transition strokes and/or s-e strokes of dictionary's characters previously registered in a dictionary and recognizing the character corresponding to the handwritten input character on the basis of the result of the comparison, a handwritten input character which was difficult to recognize only by means of ordinary strokes can be recognized with high accuracy.