Disambiguating input strokes of a stylus-based input devices for gesture or character recognition

摘要: An apparatus and method in a tablet computer for disambiguating handwriting input stream generated by stylus-based user interface. A application program interface (TAPI) of the present invention receives stroke data made on digitizing tablet. The TAPI inserts into database. If is an editing gesture, routes to gesture recognizer which identifies dialog. then executes dialog perform operations expecting text input, continues receive until it detects closure event. forms group entry database grouping all non-gesture received since last character recognizer, returns candidate characters. characters entry. notifies each time updates