ART and Design Technology Form Strategic Partnership; Partnership to Produce New Products that Support ART's smARTwriter Handwriting Recognition Software.CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1997--Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART), a developer of technologically superior speech and handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition). engines, and Design Technology Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microspeed Inc.) the world's leading supplier of light pen technology, today announced their agreement to deliver new products to market that incorporate handwriting recognition software and light pen hardware. The light pens will feature the handwriting recognition product that has gained prominent notoriety in the desktop, laptop and handheld PC  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and markets. "We are excited by the prospects of our strategic partnership with ART," said Dan Mertens, president of Design Technology Inc./MicroSpeed Inc. "The combination of DTI's light pen technology and ART's recognition software will allow MicroSpeed to deliver new and interesting products to market later this year." "smARTwriter for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and 95 provides an easy interface for desktops," said Richard McCaskill, ART executive vice president and general manager. "When combined with a DTI Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) A refinement of magnetic resonance imaging that allows the doctor to measure the flow of water and track the pathways of white matter in the brain. light pen, this combination offers a powerful and practical handwriting recognition solution for mainstream computing." Light pens deliver active and accurate interaction between the user and the system to provide a full range of mouse-like capabilities. The DTI lightpen technology enables handwriting interface with a PC by allowing the user to write directly on the monitor screen. The ART software can then transform the written input into document text. ART's smARTwriter software for Windows 95/NT and Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. is a powerful, accurate software solution that allows users to enter handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. data or words into popular applications such as Word(R), Excel(R) or any Windows 95 or NT application. smARTwriter is unique for its "trainable" software engine that conforms the user's writing style, making recognition extremely accurate. The user can enter a letter, word, symbol or drawing anywhere on the screen or tablet. DTI's light pens are available with unibody metal (stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. or anodized aluminum) cases with shielded cable A shielded cable is an electrical cable of one or more insulated conductors enclosed by a common conductive layer. The shield may be composed of braided strands of copper (or other metal), a non-braided spiral winding of copper tape, or a layer of conducting polymer. (straight or coiled, optional armor cable is available), single, double or triple nosetip or barrel switches, zero-travel nosetips, and both internal ISA bus ISA bus - Industry Standard Architecture interfaces and external serial interfaces. DTI also offers software drivers for most operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including MS DOS(R), Windows(R) 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows NT and NeXTSTEP(R). All DTI products are backed by a full two-year warranty. smARTwriter for Windows 95/NT and other ART voice and handwriting recognition products are available now through the smARTshop page on the ART Web site, located at http://www.artcomp.com . Information on DTI's light pen products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.lightpen.com or by calling 800/94-LPENS. Design Technology Inc. (DTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MicroSpeed Inc., designs, manufactures and markets light pens for a variety of diverse applications including healthcare, dental management, automotive diagnostic and design, process control, point-of-sale, wafer fabrication in clean rooms, and gaming parlors and casinos for bingo and lottery ticket selection. Design Technology is located at 11489 Woodside Ave., Santee CA 92071-4724; telephone: 619/448-2888; fax: 619/448-3044; Web site: http://www.lightpen.com . Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) develops and markets innovative and technologically superior products that allow the human voice and handwritten letters or symbols to control cellular phones, computer applications and electronic devices. The company is based in Southern California, with an R&D subsidiary in Tel Aviv, Israel, and sales offices in Japan and Singapore. More information on ART and its products is available on its Web site at http://www.artcomp.com . CONTACT: Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. Rick McCaskill, 818/678-3999 rick@artcomp.com or Shotwell Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Inc. Russell Barber, 408/727-4356 104521,3333@compuserve.com |
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