APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

A method and device is provided for recognizing characters in a handwritten input representing an input character string. A character sub-string preceding an unrecognized character in the input character string is determined. Handwritting recognition is used to provide one or more candidate characters for the recognized character. One of the one or more candidate characters is then selected. The candidate character selected, is the one which is most likely to be a correct recognition of the unrecognized character based on the determined character sub-String. Se provee un metodo y dispositivo para el reconocimiento de caracteres en un ingreso de datos con manuscritos que representan una serie de caracteres de ingreso; se determina una sub-serie de caracteres que precede a un caracter no reconocido en la serie de caracteres de ingreso; se utiliza el reconocimiento de manuscritos para proveer uno o mas caracteres candidatos para el caracter reconocido; entonces se selecciona uno del uno o mas caracteres candidato; el caracter candidato seleccionado, es aquel que mas probablemente sera un reconocimiento correcto del caracter no reconocido con base en la sub-serie del caracter determinado.