Seminar

On

Smart Quill
Presented by
P.Alekhya
16A81A0442
IV th ECE-A 1
Contents
 Smart Quill?
 History
 Internal Structure
 Working
 Technical Specification Features
 Application
 Advantages
 Limitations
 Conclusion
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 References
Abstract
Handheld computers are being popular now a days and the
present trend has started preferring small computers to do
computation with the offering of very convenient and handy
computation and other computing services. It made computer
manufacturers and developers to go for almost gadget like
computers. Reducing the size of handheld computers can only
be taken so far before they become almost unusable means
keyboards become so tiny you require needle-like fingers to
operate them and screens that need constant cursor controls to
read simple text. Hence the introduction of Smart-Quill has
solved some of these problems.
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WHAT IS SMART QUILL?
Smart Quill is a intelligent pen that can remember the words that
is used to write, and then transform them into computer text.

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HISTORY

 Lyndsay Williams of Microsoft Research's Cambridge UK lab

is the inventor of Smart quill.

 The Protoype of Smart Quill, has been developed by research

laboratories run by British Telecom at Martlesham, England.

 It is claimed to be the biggest revolution in handwriting since

the invention of the pen.

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Internal Structure

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Working
 Smart Quill measures the movement of pen and then matches
them to the movements that produce the words and letters
programmed into its memory.

 The handwritten notes are stored on hard disk of the pen. The
pen is then plugged into an electronic "inkwell", text data is
transmitted to a desktop computer, printer, or modem or to a
mobile telephone to send files electronically.

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Handwriting Recognition and
Signature Verification
 User can train the pen to recognition and signature verification.

 if someone else picks your SmartQuill and tries to write with it-
it won’t.

There are two techniques used for this purpose

1. Accelerometer technology

2. Handwriting recognition software

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Accelerometer technology
 This technology uses a device called Accelerometer which is
used for measuring motion.

 used to detect the stops and starts, arcs and loops of

handwriting, and transmit this information to a small
microprocessor.

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Handwriting recognition software
 This software embedded in the microprocessor of the pen is
used to recognize handwriting of the user.

It constitutes two major phases:

1. Handwriting transcription

2. Handwriting recognition

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Handwriting transcription

In this phase, the recorded

acceleration signals are then
transcripted to it’s original
form.

fig .represents the acceleration signals recorded

while one is writing a small capital B
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Transcription result

fig.transcription result 12
Handwriting recognition
 The second huge aspect is the characters and signatures
recognition. The hardware (accelerometers plus contact
detector) embedded in the pen has proved a really efficient
combination for this application.

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DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY

 Technology used for display is Kopin Corp Cyber Display

technology.

 Cyber Display is a ¼ inch diagonal LCD that uses circuitry

built on a silicon wafer.

 There is a small 3 or 4 line screen to read the information

stored in the pen.

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Display scrolls by Tilting Screen

By tilting the pen, user can choose applications and scroll

through without using scroll buttons.
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COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER DEVICES

 Earlier SmartQuill models communicated with the PC via a

radio transmitter, but the current prototype hooks up to a PC via
a cable and electronic docking station called an “inkwell”.

 The data stored in the memory is uploaded to the personal

computer when it is placed in to a docking station.

 Future models could receive e-mails and pager messages via a

wireless messaging system.

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MEMORY

 It has 4MB EEPROM memory.

 At a time, up to 10 pages of notes can be stored locally on the

pen.

 The data is stored in the memory on the pen until it is uploaded

to the personal computer.

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Power

Is powered by AAA battery.

It will run for about 25 hours on a single AAA

battery.

The pen will power down after a period of no

movement. So it supports automatic on/off system.

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APPLICATIONS

 Replace keyboard with smart Quill

 Input to other devices

 Working on any surface

 Supports voice record and speech recognition

 Provides handheld computer applications

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ADVANTAGES

 Spatial sensing system.

 Intuitive user interface.

 Security

 3D Mouse

 Power saving

 Smart Quill is all mobile

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Limitations
 Bigger than a normal pen

 Accelerometer errors

 Inconvenient for handtremor persons

 Can’t store diagrams.

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CONCLUSION

 Smart Quill is convenient for use.

 It would become a general day to day life pen.

 This helps people get rid of typing on computers.

 As with growing technology all of its limitations can be

overomed.

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REFERENCES
1. RNRT Stylocom project, notification n 0250016

2. E.Millien, C.Roux, “Users input to design of a “communicating

pen”,SmartObjects Conference,2003

3. R.Baron, R. Plamondon, “Acceleration measurement with an

instrumentedfor sign verification and analysis”,IEEETrans.Vol
IM-38oto Website: www.anoto.com

4. BT Website :www.smartquill.com

5. B.Milner, “Handwriting Recognition using acceleration based

Motion detection”,IEE ref.1999/041,1999 23
THANK YOU

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