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 method for recognizing input characters handwritten onto an input area of an input device, each point of the input area being represented by coordinate values. The method includes the steps of receiving a signal representative of an input character, determining an input position representative of the input character using information about the coordinate values, and recognizing the input character as one of a plurality of reference characters in a reference library. The recognizing step at least uses recognition features and a weighting function of each of the plurality of reference characters in the reference library and the input position. The signal includes at least information about the coordinate values of the input character.

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.