Documentation for MDS/InkSegment

Technique InkSegment DS
Document MDS FCD (Guidelines Document), InkSegment Section
Name Zon-Yin Shae, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
EMail zshae@us.ibm.com
Type Application Component
External Libraries N/A  
Related Ds/DSs N/A
Used Ds/DSs InkMediaInfo DS, OrderedGroupDataMask DS
Input Electronic Ink document (.stk), Electronic Ink DataBase Representation (.bin),
Database Code Book (.txt)
The .stk file format: The file is a text file tagged with 3 commands (=R, =T, and =S).
=R N * * * * * (N: number of strokes in the files)
=T (no use)
=S M ****** (M: number of points in this stroke)
The ink coordinate (X, Y) pairs are list between two =S tags.
The .ink file format: This is a binary file. The first four bytes are the length of the
data byte in the file. The rest of the data byte followed.
Extraction Yes
Client Appl Search & Retrieval
Summary This program take electronic ink document file as input for extracting the description file and searching the database.
Strong Points N/A
Limitations N/A
Known Problems N/A
Parameters N/A