Hand-writing practicing system

• US 7,147,473 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2003
• Issued: 12/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yehouda Harpaz
• Original Assignee: Yehouda Harpaz
• Inventors: Harpaz, Yehouda
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US10/497,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20050064373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,352 Days
• Field of Search: 434/81, 434 84- 88, 434/98, 434/100, 434/165, 434/307.R, 434/308, 434/317, 434/365, 434/162, 434/163, 345/179, 382/161, 382/185, 382/187
• US Class Current: 434/162
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/02 Finger, hand or arm supporting devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/04 Guide sheets or plates; Tracing charts templets for drawing purposes B43L13/20

Abstract

A hand-writing practicing system is comprised of a computer with a screen that can sense the movement of a stylus on it, and software the displays to the user original script in hand-writing, record the stylus movement as user-writing and display it on top of the original script.

Claims

1. A hand-writing practicing system, comprised of:

A computer equipped with a screen that can sense the movement of a stylus on it;

and a software running on the computer, which

displays some existing text in hand-writing as the original script;

records stylus movements as user-writing;

displays the recorded user-writing as if written on top of the original script;

in response to appropriate input, manipulates separately the appearance of the original script and the user-writing;

in response to appropriate input, performs operations on all the occurrences of a specific character, either in the original script or user-writing, and these operations include changing the shape of all the occurrences of a character in some part of the original script or the user-writing to an arbitrary shape.

2. A system as described in claim 1, where the software can read, manipulate and produce texts which are kept as images of the text and specification of the location and identity of each occurrence of a character in the text.