WACOM Components Europe announces it will be demonstrating Decuma's, Latin handwriting recognition software engine.
In comparison with other methods used for handwriting recognition software such as the Hidden Markov Model and Neural Networks, Decuma's GIT Technology allows users to add their own signs and letters even when hand tremor occurs. Recognition is also extremely high and the method can be further developed.
Decuma's handwriting recognition solutions with low requirements on processor performance and small memory footprint are especially well suited for mobile handheld devices.
WACOM will be demonstrating Decuma's handwriting recognition software on it's 4" Application Developers Kit combined with a Toshiba Low Temperature Polysilicon 4" TFT display. Traditional handwriting recognition engines which are used on the Symbian, Pocket PC, Palm or other mobile platform OS, historically have used resistive digitisers to input character information.
However there are many limitations using traditional 2-dimensional resistive digitisers, compared with WACOM's Penabled 3-dimensional inductive technology. The data captured by the stylus is much richer in information, and provides more information for manipulation such as stylus height above the screen (z-axis), stylus pressure (up to 256 levels depending how hard you press on the screen), and tilt (the angle of the stylus with respect to the screen surface). "As handheld devices get smaller and lighter, and as the display is miniaturised, so does the User Interface. However the richness of information that is being displayed needs a much smarter way of manipulation," said Neil Ferguson Product Marketing Manager, "us as consumers are used to the UI paradigm presented to us in the form of a keyboard and a mouse. WACOM's Penabled technology offers the best of both worlds; mouse-like functionality (for example hovering over icons for tool-tips, side-switch for right mouse-button functions), and also pen functionality."
