ONLINE CHARACTER STRING RECOGNITION DEVICE AND ONLINE CHARACTER STRING RECOGNITION METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the recognizing precision of a written character string.;SOLUTION: A word detection means 7 detects a word candidate from candidate characters obtained by an individual character recognition means 4 by using a word dictionary 6. A character shape evaluation means 9 evaluates the character shapes for the characters constituting the word candidate by referring to the shape information of characters in a character shape dictionary 8 and a character rectangular pattern stored in a character rectangular pattern storing buffer 2. A link probability information evaluation means 11 finds link probability information of the word of a character string candidate by candidate characters and a word candidate stored in a candidate character lattice buffer 5 by referring to the link probability information of words in a language information dictionary 10. An optimum candidate selection means 12 selects an optimum character string.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO