摘要 |
A method and apparatus for recognition of hand-written input is disclosed where hand-written input composed of a sequence of (x, y, pen) points (125) is preprocessed into a sequence of strokes (122). A short list of candidate characters that are likely matches for the hand-written input is determined by finding a fast matching distance (600) between the input sequence of strokes and a sequence of strokes representing each candidate character of a large character set (160) where the sequence of strokes for each candidate character is derived from statistical analysis of empirical data. A final sorted list of candidate characters which are likely matches for the hand-written input (106) is determined by finding a detailed matching distance between the input sequence of strokes and the sequence of strokes for each candidate character of the short list (1000). A final selectable list of candidate characters is presented to a user.
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