Advanced Recognition Technologies Equips Cirque's New Cruise Cat Internet Touchpad With ART's Handwriting Recognition Technology for ``Gesture Activation''.SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999--Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART), a global leader in voice 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). technologies, has licensed its award-winning handwriting recognition technology to Cirque(R) Corp. for the new Cruise Cat Cruise Cat is a 1951 Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in late 1952. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. Animation was provided by Irven Spence, Ray Patterson, Ed Barge and Kenneth Muse. (TM) with Gesturing capabilities that provide users with faster and simpler methods of navigating through their PCs. The Cruise Cat is available now and can be purchased through major retails stores (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) $109.99). Using a modified version of ART's adaptable handwriting recognition engine embedded in the Cruise Cat's driver, users can define simple touch gestures on the touchpad A stationary pointing device that provides a small, flat surface that you slide your finger over using the same movements as you would a mouse. You can tap on the pad's surface as an alternate to pressing one of the touchpad keys. See mouse, trackball and pointing stick. to open applications, files and even favorite bookmarks for the Web. For example, a user may program a heart to launch Solitaire solitaire or patience, any card game that can be played by one person. Solitaire is the American name; in England it is known as patience. There are probably more kinds of solitaire than all other card games together. or a question mark to open a favorite search engine. Default gestures such as copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. provide easy editing within documents; minimize/maximize windows and close programs with just a quick glide of the finger. "The combination of ART's Gesture-recognition technology with Cirque's Glidepoint(R) technology in the Cruise Cat touchpad is designed to enable users to quickly and easily maneuver through applications as well as accelerate Internet access," said Richard Woolley, product director of Cirque. "With simple finger strokes, users can instantly access Web sites, files, shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. and commands." ART's Gesture recognition technology is based on shape recognition, employing a light, flexible recognition engine that can work with a predefined character set, or can completely adapt to the user's own writing style. ART's technology can support any language or combination of languages, customized alphabets, unlimited macros and application launching. Due to its low processing power requirements, Gesture recognition is ideally suited for many types of devices that would benefit from handwriting recognition as a method of text input or gesture control, such as handheld and palm-size computers, wireless phone touchpads and many others. "ART's gesturing capability is easy to use, yet very powerful to the user," stated Rick McCaskill, executive vice president & general manager of ART. "The integration of ART's Gesture control into Cirque's Cruise Cat provides PC users with a navigation device that uses instinctive tools: handwriting and the sense of touch." ART develops and markets innovative, technologically superior products for the control of cellular phones, computer applications and electronic devices in response to the spoken human voice or naturally 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. letters or symbols. Over 4 million phones have shipped with ART voice recognition technology embedded within them. ART has been shipping handwriting and voice recognition software for Windows CE-based handheld PCs since 1996. The company is based in Southern California, with an R&D subsidiary in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and sales offices in the United States, Israel, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. ART software is available from major national distributors, including Merisel, Micro Central and Ingram Micro, as well as from major resellers including CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, Unplug-It, RCS (1) (Remote Computer Service) A remote timesharing service. (2) (Revision Control System) A Unix utility that provides version control. RCS - Revision Control System , CDW CDW - data warehouse , Microwarehouse, Mobile Planet, and others. It is also available from the smARTshop pay-and-download facility on its Web site. More information on ART and its products is available on its Web site, http://www.artcomp.com. Cirque, founded in 1991, is the leading provider of touchpads worldwide. Cirque's GlidePoint Control is used by 50 percent of laptop providers. Cirque's products are distributed to markets throughout the United States, Canada, and over 30 countries on five continents through top distributors and key national retailers. Additional information on Cirque can be obtained by calling 888/TOUCH-90 in the United States or 801/467-1100, or by visiting the company's web site at www.cirque.com. |
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