Two Stroke Quick Input Selection for Handwritten Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in accurately selecting and manipulating content using handwritten inputs on electronic devices, particularly when dealing with large amounts of text or content spanning multiple pages, as conventional methods like lassoing are inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a two-stroke selection indicator pair, where specific character pairs (such as brackets or quotation marks) are used to select content, leveraging handwriting recognition to identify and associate these strokes with the corresponding text, allowing for easy selection across lines, paragraphs, or tables.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional lassoing methods are used to select content, then selection capability is provided, but efficiency is poor when dealing with large amounts of text or content spanning multiple pages
Solution Approach 1:
The selection process is segmented into two distinct ink stroke actions: a first stroke to initiate selection and a second stroke to complete it. This segmentation allows the system to break down the complex task of selecting large amounts of content into manageable steps, improving efficiency over conventional single-action lassoing methods
Solution Approach 2:
The first ink stroke serves as a preliminary action that prepares the selection state without completing it. This preliminary marking allows users to indicate their selection intent in advance, and the system retains this state until the second stroke finalizes the selection, reducing the time needed for multi-page content selection
2Productivity
If two stroke selection indicator pair is implemented, then content selection efficiency is improved, but input complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically interprets the two-stroke input pattern and performs content selection without requiring additional user actions or complex configuration. The processor detects the stroke pattern, identifies the content boundary, and executes selection automatically, making the increased input sequence self-justifying through its automated processing
Solution Approach 2:
The two-stroke selection indicator pair serves multiple functions: it can select content within a single page, span across multiple pages, and work with various content types (text, images, tables). This universal applicability justifies the slightly increased input sequence by providing a unified method for diverse selection scenarios
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AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface of an electronic device, ink strokes; determining, using a processor of the electronic device, that the ink strokes include a selection indicator pair; associating, using a processor of the electronic device, the selection indicator pair with content; and selecting, using a processor of the electronic device, the content associated with the selection indicator pair. Other aspects are described and claimed.