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From:David McMinn
Date:24 Jan 2000 at 16:02:37
Subject:RE: Fake mouse and keyboard

Hi Tim

> Anyone used a 3Com PalmPilot touch screen, with its graffiti
> (specialised handwriting) recognition. I've tried to come up with an
> algorithm to process specific properties of a continuous mouse
> movement and recognise these symbols - but with no luck. Certain
> characteristics are easier to recognise than others (like if the
> stroke starts towards the left or to the right of the squiggle).

If you have some way of "digitising" the mouse movement, so you've
basically got an array of pixels which represent the letter that was
drawn with the mouse, you could use a neural network to recognise the
digits. Very standard application for neural nets, they work well if
implemented properly.



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