Seminar On

Smart quill

Submitted by –

Anish Sarkar
BCA 5th Sem .
 CONTENTS

 1)INTRODUCTION
 2) WORKING
 3) FEATURES
 4) APPLICATIONS
 5)ADVANTAGES
 6)DISADVATANGES
 7) CONCLUSION
 8) REFERENCE
INTRODUCTION

 Smart quill was invented by Lyndsey Williams of Microsoft

Research UK Lab along with British Telecommunications.

 Smart quill is a pen, which remembers the words that writes and
then transfer them into computer text.

 Smart quill contains sensors that records movement by using by

using earth’s gravity irrespective of the platform used
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.

 User can enter information into these pens by simply pressing a

button and accelerometers are used to sense the movements of
the pen using earths gravity system
FEATURES

DISPLAY SCREEN
The text written can be read on a tiny screen on the
side of the pen and it has a light at its tip which allow
the user to use it even dark

Fig: Display Unit of Smart Quill

Fig: Architecture of Smart Quill
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION AND
SIGNATURE VERIFICATION
 User can train the pen to recognize particular handwriting
 If someone else picks your Smart Quill and tries to write with
it- it won’t
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION AND
SIGNATURE VERIFICATION(contd…)

There are two techniques used for this purpose

• 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

 Two types of accelerometer

1)Two axes accelerometer:- measures acceleration in two axes.
ex..ADXL202 accelerometer
2)Three axes accelerometer:-measures acceleration in three
axes. ex..tronics +/-2g
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SOFTWARE
 This software embedded in the microprocessor of the pen is
used to recognize handwriting of the user.
 Two phases in handwriting recognition
Handwriting transcription
Handwriting recognition
HANDWRITING TRANSCRIPTION

 In this phase, the recorded acceleration signals are then

transcripted to it’s original form.
Method
 Firstly, we have to know pen’s spatial orientation.
 Secondly, we have to succeed in the double integration.
Fig. represents the acceleration signals recorded
while one is writing a small capital B
Transcripted signal

Fig: After transcription the signal looks like

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
In Fig , we can see the accelerometers signals recorded
during Yanis signing process
DISPLAY SCROLLS USING TILT SENSORS

 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(Antiaircraft Artillery Battery)
battery. It can continuously work 25 hrs with a single AAA
battery
 The pen has automatic on/off system.
ADVANTAGES
 Spatial sensing system
 Security
 3D mouse
 Power saving
 Smart quill is all mobile
DISADVANTAGES
 It has accelerometer errors.
 It is inconvenient for persons with handtremors.
 Bigger size than a normal pen.
 Errors are introduced in the system due to thermal
variations in the spring
APPLICATIONS
1. Replace keyboard with SmartQuill
2. Input to other devices
3. Handheld computer applications
4. The wireless messaging system which allows two way
communications
5. Supports speech recognition.
6. Third party to add on applications
CONCLUSION
 The estimated cost of this futuristic pen is only $100.
 SmartQuill is convenient for 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
REFERENCES
 R.Baron, R. Plamondon, “Acceleration measurement with an
instrumented for sign verification and handwriting analysis” , IEEE
Trans .Vol IM-38

 E.Millien, C.Roux, “Users input to design of a communicating pen”,

Smart Objects Conference, 2003

 http://sites.google.com/site/sensecam/smartquill.
 www.smartquill.com
 http://www.mtl.mit.edu/researchgroups/MEngTP/Graham_Thesis.pdf
 http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data sheets/AD974.pdf