Character reader, character reading method, and character reading program

• US 20070058868A1
• Filed: 08/14/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Solutions Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Solutions Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Seino, Kazushi, Terazaki, Masanori
• Application Number:
  US11/503,211
• Publication Number:
  US 20070058868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/187
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/387 using human interaction, e.g. selection of the best displayed recognition candidate

Abstract

A character reader 1 includes: a handwriting information obtaining part that obtains handwriting information of a character which is handwritten on a sheet 4 with a digital pen 2; a character image generating part that generates partial character images in order in which the character is written, based on the obtained handwriting information of the character; and a stroke order display part that displays the generated partial character images in sequence at predetermined time intervals.

Claims

1. A character reader, comprising:

a handwriting information obtaining part that obtains handwriting information of a character handwritten on a sheet;

a character image generating part that generates partial character images in order in which the character is written, based on the handwriting information of the character obtained by said handwriting information obtaining part; and

a stroke order display part that displays the partial character images generated by said character image generating part, in sequence at predetermined time intervals.

3. The character reader as set forth in claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising:

a character recognition part that outputs text data resulting from character recognition that is performed by using the character image data; and

a correction processing part that displays a window on which the text data outputted from said character recognition part and the image data are displayed so as to be visually comparable for confirmation or correction of the text data which is the character recognition result.

4. The image reader as set forth in claim 1,

wherein said stroke order display part performs stroke order display processing, with one of the following operations serving as a trigger:

a selection operation of a display field displaying the partial character image and a movement operation of a cursor to a display field of the character recognition result.

5. The character reader as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

an input part that accepts input of new text data for correcting the text data displayed on the window; and

a storage part that stores the new text data accepted by said input part and the image data in correspondence to each other.

2. A character reader, comprising:

a handwriting information obtaining part that obtains handwriting information of a character handwritten on a sheet;

a display that displays image data of the character, the image data being generated based on the handwriting information of the character obtained by said handwriting information obtaining part; and

a stroke order display part that, in response to an operation for displaying stroke order of the character image data displayed on said display, sequentially displays partial character images on said display based on the handwriting information of the character obtained by said handwriting information obtaining part, the partial character images being images generated in a course until the target image data is completed as one character.

6. A character reading method for a character reader including a display, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the character reader, handwriting information of a character handwritten on a sheet;

generating, by the character reader, partial character images in order in which the character is written, based on the obtained handwriting information of the character; and

displaying, by the character reader, the generated partial character images on the display in sequence at predetermined time intervals.

7. A character reading program causing a character reader to execute processing, the program comprising program codes for causing the character reader to function as:

a handwriting information obtaining part that obtains handwriting information of a character handwritten on a sheet;

a character image generating part that generates partial character images in order in which the character is written, based on the handwriting information obtained by the handwriting information obtaining part; and

a stroke order display part that displays the partial character images generated by the character image generating part, in sequence at predetermined time intervals.