Patents Assigned to Laboratories for Information Technology
  • Recognition process
    Patent number: 6891971
    Abstract: A recognition process for handwritten characters, including generating sub-segments representing at least one character stroke, the sub-segments each having a boundary enclosing the at least one stroke of the sub-segment, merging the sub-segments when the distance between centroids of the sub-segments are less than a predetermined threshold, and generating segments representing possible characters from the sub-segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignees: Apple Computer, Inc., Laboratories for Information Technology
    Inventors: Gareth Hugh Loudon, Tai Hou Tng, Hong Chen