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From:Evan Tuer
Date:26 Jan 2000 at 08:14:56
Subject:Re: Fake mouse and keyboard

On 25 Jan 00, at 18:26, Curt Esser wrote:

>
> I don't know what a neural net is, so forgive me if this next is the
> same thing, but another idea would be to record the "writing" as a
> series of bytes describing the plotting vectors, -8 to +8, so for
> example 2 would mean the mouse moved up 1 pixel and right one pixel
> and plotted a point, -1 would mean that the mouse went up one pixel
> and didn't plot... > > Later... --

Handwriting is too irregular for that to work. Think "zones". Mind
you, having said that, don't go and rip off the graffiti 68k code:

(from uclinux list)

> Just read that Palm Computing lost in a patent quarrel with Xerox.
> Xerox holds patents on parts of the Graffiti recognition. Sounds
> pretty expensive for Palm.
>
> Check out http://www.heise.de for further news ...

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