An Accelerometer-Based Digital Pen with a Trajectory

Recognition Algorithm for Handwritten Digit and Gesture

Recognition
Synopsis
Now a day, the growth of miniaturization technologies in electronic circuits and
components has greatly decreased the dimension and weight of consumer
electronic products, such as smart phones and handheld computers, and thus made
them more handy and convenient. This paper presents an accelerometer-based
digital pen for handwritten digit and gesture trajectory recognition applications. The
digital pen consists of a tri-axial accelerometer, a microcontroller, and an Zigbee
wireless transmission module for sensing and collecting accelerations of
handwriting and gesture trajectories. sing this project we can do human computer
interaction.
. sers can use the pen to write digits or ma!e hand gestures, and the
accelerations of hand motions measured by the accelerometer are wirelessly
transmitted to a computer for online trajectory recognition. "o, by changing the
position of #$#" %micro electro mechanical systems& we can able to show the
alphabetical characters in the '(. The acceleration signals measured from the tri-
axial accelerometer are transmitted to a computer via the wireless module.
!"isting system
"horter distance between '( and 'en section
"ome board is re)uired for writing
Proposed System
*n this system we are using tri-axial accelerometer, a microcontroller %with +,-
converter&, and a wireless transceiver %Zigbee&. The tri-axial accelerometer
measures the acceleration signals generated by a user.s hand motions. The
microcontroller collects the analog acceleration
"ignals and converts the signals to digital ones via the +,- converter. The wireless
transceiver transmits the acceleration signals wirelessly to a personal computer
%'(&. The acceleration signals measured from the tri-axial accelerometer are
transmitted to a computer via the wireless module.
*t consists of the following
/onger distance is possible by using Zigbee communication
0y varying the position of #$#" we can display the characters in '(
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