Abstract: A method for managing a sphere of wireless tags, the method comprises programming, by a wireless reader, a group of wireless tags to belong to the sphere of wireless tags; sending by the wireless reader sphere beacons aimed to the wireless tags of the sphere; detecting a loss of a wireless tag of the sphere if the wireless tag did not respond to a predetermined number of sphere beacons; and responding to the detecting of the loss of the wireless tag.

Abstract: A method, comprising: receiving during a wideband reception period and by a wideband reception circuit of a first wireless transceiver a wideband ranging message; transmitting during a wideband transmission period and by a wideband transmission circuit of the first wireless transceiver a wideband ranging response message; receiving by a narrowband reception circuit of the first wireless transceiver received narrowband messages; and transmitting by a narrowband transmission circuit of the first wireless transceiver transmitted narrowband messages.

Abstract: The disclosed method and apparatus provide prediction and suggestion of proposed actions a user of an electronic device is likely to want to do, at certain circumstances. The actions take into account historical activities made by the user, as well as incoming events, environmental data, external data, or any other source of information. Proposing the actions may be done by one or more engines, each relating to one or more aspects of the device, actions, events, activities, preferences and the like. The actions proposed by all engines are merged and prioritized, and presented to a user. The options are presented to a user in a manner that enables activation of any of the options, with the relevant settings and parameters.

Abstract: Described is a control unit including a recognition result receiver able to receive a recognition result, a recognition result association unit having associations of results with recognition engines, and a recognition engine activator able to activate the recognition engine associated with the recognition result. Also described is a device including a microphone, an analog to digital converter able to convert input received by the microphone, a first speech recognition engine adapted to perform a first type of recognition on an output of the analog to digital converter, and a second recognition engine adapted to perform a second type of recognition on the output.

Abstract: A handwriting recognition input system including a handwriting input area and a plurality of activatable controls. Each activatable control is associated with a different reference library, and each is adapted to recognize characters input on the handwriting input area as belonging to the associated reference library. A method for handwriting recognition including the steps of selecting at least one character set from among a plurality of character sets and recognizing at least one character using the at least one selected character set.

Abstract: A points based handwriting recognition system is suitable for hand held processor implemented devices with small touch pad writing surfaces. The writing surface is divided into a grid by a number of spaced discrete points. The user is instructed to write, as by a stylus, characters such as letters, numbers or symbols with the writing path extending through a predetermined sequence of the points which define the grid. The stylus must pass sequentially within a specified distance of mandatory points for processor recognition of each written character and may additionally pass within a predetermined distance of optional points.

Abstract: A handwriting recognition input system including a handwriting input area and a plurality of activatable controls. Each activatable control is associated with a different reference library, and each is adapted to recognize characters input on the handwriting input area as belonging to the associated reference library. A method for handwriting recognition including the steps of selecting at least one character set from among a plurality of character sets and recognizing at least one character using the at least one selected character set.

Abstract: A handwritten pattern and stroke recognition system recognizes an input pattern by comparing it to reference patterns. The input and reference patterns comprise at least one stroke, where a stroke is defined as the series of sample points from pen-down to pen-up. The system of the present invention compares the input and reference patterns stroke by stroke and thus, compares input strokes to reference strokes. The system includes a tangent and stable point extractor, a reference database and a stable-point-based classifier. The extracter determines tangents to at least some of the sample points of the input stroke and determines, which of the sample points between a beginning and end of the input stroke are stable points. The reference database stores tangents of sample points of the reference strokes and stable points of the reference strokes.

Abstract: A method for pattern recognition of indicia composed of alphabetical characters of a language in the form of at least a part of a word. The shape of each character in a word is established by means of a pattern shape recognizer. A probability value designating the relative confidence in the recognition of the character as one of the language characters is assigned to each character. The established shapes of the characters are then sequentially applied to a linguistic recognizer for further processing and the probability values of language structure to each of the language characters is assigned. Then the probability values assigned to the characters in the shape recognizer is combined with the corresponding probability values assigned to the characters in the linguistic recognizer and the path between characters possessing the highest probability values is determined.