Interfacing with ink

• US 20060093218A1
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chambers, Robert L., Dresevic, Bodin, Gounares, Alexander, Bhattacharyay, Subha, Dodge, Steve, Torset, Todd A., Goldberg, Arin J., Balaz, Rudolph, Kannapel, Timothy H., Biswas, Manoj K., Turner, Jerome J., Krantz, Brigette E., Fisher, Stephen A., Silverman, Andrew, Hullender, Gregory, Somji, Shiraz M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,167,585 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/187
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/171 by use of digital ink
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1423 the instrument generating sequences of position coordinates corresponding to handwriting preprocessing or recognising digital ink G06V30/32

Abstract

The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.

Claims

1. A method of receiving information from a recognizer, comprising the steps of:

sending a request for information to a recognizer object;

said recognizer object returning information regarding recognizer.

2. The method of receiving information from said recognizer according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding said recognizer includes the capabilities of said recognizer.

3. The method of receiving information from said recognizer according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding said recognizer includes the language or languages recognized by said recognizer.

4. The method of receiving information from said recognizer according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding said recognizer includes the name of said recognizer.

5. The method of receiving information from said recognizer according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding said recognizer includes the properties supported by the recognizer.

6. The method of receiving information from said recognizer according to claim 1, wherein said recognizer object is identified as part of a recognizer collection.

7. A method of exchanging information regarding how ink should be recognized, comprising the steps of:

sending a request for information to a recognizer context object;

receiving a response from recognizer context object that indicates information about how ink should be recognized.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein said information includes whether recognition of said ink for during a background operation.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein said information includes whether recognition results should be returned with alternatives.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein said information includes the all information in said recognizer context object.

11. The method according to claim 7, further comprising the step of requesting said recognizer context object to stop background recognition of ink.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the response from said recognizer context object includes a recognition result of ink strokes.

13. The method according to claim 12, said recognition result includes alternative recognition results.