-Presented by

P Sarath kumar & M Naga seshu

JNTU college of engineering, Anantapur
About
Inventor
 Lyndsay William of Microsoft Research in March,
1997
Basic Idea
 "it would be neat to put all of a handheld-PDA type
computer in a pen"
 It is the pen for the new millennium.

 All the computing power you need, right in your

pocket.
 Introduction
Digital Pen…….????

Adigital pen is a battery-operated

writing instrument that allows the
user to digitally capture a handwritten
note or drawing.
Digital Pen
How smart quill differs from
digital pens????
Digital pens require special pads for
writing. But smart quill can be used on any
sort of paper.

Smart quill contains sensors that record

movements by using earth’s gravity
irrespective of the platform used.
Special pad for Digital
pens
SMART QUILL CAN BE USED ON ANY
SURFACE
Features
Display Screen
 The text written can be read on on a tiny screen
on the side of the pen and used with personal
information-management software, email, and other
applications that will be built in.

It has a light at its tip which allows the user to

use it even in the dark
DISPLAY SCREEN
 HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
AND SIGNATURE VERIFICATION

User can train the pen to recognize a

particular handwriting.

If someone else picks your Smart Quill and

tries to write with it- it won’t.
 DISPLAY SCROLLS USING TILT
SENSORS
The pen's tilt sensor could also be used
to control the cursor on a computer
screen.

By tilting the pen user can chose applications

and scroll through without using scroll
buttons.

This is done by using Micro Electro-Mechanical

Systems(MEMS) tilt sensors to measure tilt
angle with earth
COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER
DEVICES

The current prototype hooks up to the PC via

a cable and electronic docking station called
as “ inkwell “.

Future models can receive email and pager

messages via a wireless messaging
system.
Memory
It uses 4MB EEPROM .

Up to 10 pages of notes can be stored locally

on the pen memory.

The data is stored in the pen locally until

it is copied to the Personal Computer. 
Power
Smart quill works on AAA battery. It can
continuously work 25 hrs with a single AAA
battery.

The pen has automatic on/off system.

AAA Battery :Antiaircraft Artillery Battery.

Size:44.5mm Long and 10.5mm in the

diameter.

Weight:11.5 gm.
AAA BATTERY
Working
Smart quill works by measuring the pen’s
movements and matching them to the
movements that produce the words and
letters programmed into its memory.

Consistency of handwriting rather than

neatness, is the only condition for accuracy.
Working
Accelerometer Technology

Handwriting recognition Software

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

A tiny accelerometer in a pen could be used

to detect the stops and starts, arcs and loops
of handwriting, and transmit this information
to a small microprocessor that would make
sense of it as text.
Accelerometer Technology
Invisible writing in air is achieved through this
unique technology called accelerometer that
monitors hand movements and can also be
used as a ‘virtual hinge’ to scroll around the
small screen on the pen and detect left or
right-handed use.

It records movement by using the earth's

gravity system, whether you write on paper or
in the air. Hence it is independent of surface
used. Movements are stored within the
SmartQuill.
Types of Accelerometers in
use
Two Axes Accelerometer
 This accelerometer measures acceleration in two
axes. An example for Two Axes Accelerometer is
ADXL202 Accelerometer.

Three Axes Accelerator

 This accelerometer measures acceleration in three
axes. An example for Three Axes Accelerometer is
Tronics +/- 2g accelerometer
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
SOFTWARE

This software embedded in the

microprocessor of the pen is used to
recognize handwriting of the user.

The handwriting recognition software

translates movements in to text on screen.
Phases in handwriting
recognition
 1. Handwriting transcription
In this phase, the recorded acceleration signals
are then transcripted to it’s original form. Here
this aspect is solved using ‘simple’ double
integration method in order to retrace the pen
tip movement on paper.
Method
 Firstly, we have to know pen’s spatial orientation in
order to withdraw the earth gravity component to
the measured accelerations.
 Secondly, we have to succeed in the double
integration, which is to solve all the derivation
problems due to this method.
HANDWRITING
RECOGNITION
In this phase the characters and signatures
are recognized.

Method
We use a simple Euclidian distance as the
comparison process, and of course the decision
process is the smaller distance found.
HANDWRITING
RECOGNITION
Steps
The first step -1- consists in creating the
reference database for the characters as for the
signatures.
The second step is the recognition process
For the creation of database, each symbol was
reproduced several times and a mean
normalized symbol was computed.
 For recognition process, the unknown symbol is
first normalized, the distance between this
symbol and the entire database symbol is
computed. Then the unknown symbol is
recognized as the one with the lowest distance.
PROTOC
OL

Fig. represents the acceleration signals recorded

while one is
writing a small capital B.
 PROTOC
OL

In Fig , we can see the accelerometers signals recorded

during
Yani’s signing process.
ADVANTAGES
"Spatial Sensing" system

SmartQuill, a spatial-sensing device inside the

pen detects the letterforms of the pen's
movement and converts them into text.

The SmartQuill does not need a screen to work

ADVANTAGES
Intuitive user interface

User could use any surface for writing such as

paper, tablet, screen or even air.

It contains an ink cartridge so that users can

see what they write down on paper.
ADVANTAGES
Security

User can train the pen to recognize a particular

handwriting.

Hence SmartQuill recognizes only the owner’s

handwriting.
ADVANTAGES
3D-Mouse

People could use the pen in the office to

replace a keyboard, but the main attraction will
be for users who usually take notes by hand on
the road and type them up when returning to
the office
ADVANTAGES
Power saving

SmartQuill is really a very smart pen that could

control everything by itself.

When the pen is kept idle for some time ,power

gets automatically off. And thus saves the
power.
ADVANTAGES
SmartQuill is all mobile

"As more and more people are working out of

the office and rather than lugging around huge
laptop computers, these are something people
are much more comfortable with -- writing."
APPLICATIONS
2.Replace keyboard with SmartQuill
3.Input to other devices
4.Handheld computer applications
5.The wireless messaging system which allows
two way communications
6.Supports speech recognition.
7.Third party to add on applications
APPLICATIONS
1. To do list
2. Personal diary planner
3. Database - names and addresses
4. Synchronize files, e-mails, messages to PC
5. Clock and Alarms
6. Calculator
7. Pager
PROTOTYPE
CONCLUSION
The estimated cost of this futuristic pen is
only $100.
SmartQuill supports two factors : small size
and convenient use.
 Keyboards become so tiny you require
needle-like fingers to operate them and
screens that need constant cursor controls to
read simple text. The introduction of
SmartQuill is the best solution for this
problem.