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Summary of Contents for PDC

Page 1: ...Presenter Pen User Manual Version V7 1 Release October 2009 Model PDC PENPOWER ...

Page 2: ...ot use the Software for any purposes other than those permitted under this Agreement 4 Business Users If you need to install or use the Software on more than one 1 computer please contact Penpower or our local distributor to purchase a license for the additional use 5 Liability You agree to indemnify Penpower against all losses costs debts settlement payments or other expenses including but not li...

Page 3: ...harge FCC Note This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions...

Page 4: ...Mode Operation 2 6 Chapter 3 New Pen Mouse Mode 3 1 3 1 Run Penpower Jr Handwriting System 3 1 3 2 Switching Modes 3 2 3 3 New Pen Mode 3 3 3 3 1 Full Screen Writing 3 4 3 3 2 How to Write 3 5 3 3 3 How to Quickly Correct Enter Phrases and Symbols 3 6 3 4 Balloon UI 3 7 3 4 1 Phrase Correction 3 8 3 4 2 Artificial Intelligence 3 9 3 4 3 Split 3 10 3 4 4 Merge 3 10 3 4 5 Homophone 3 11 3 4 6 Relate...

Page 5: ...Input Tool 4 3 4 4 2 Phonetic Input Tool 4 4 4 4 3 Keyboard Input Tool 4 4 4 4 4 Dictionary Input Tool 4 4 4 4 5 Symbol Input Tool 4 5 4 5 Phrase 4 6 4 5 1 Use Phurase to input words 4 6 4 5 2 Update Phrase Database 4 7 4 6 Other Functions 4 8 4 6 1 Learning Tool 4 8 4 6 2 Signature 4 8 4 6 3 On Line Translator 4 8 4 6 4 Settings 4 9 4 6 5 Switch Version 4 10 4 6 6 Gesture 4 10 4 6 7 Mix Tradition...

Page 6: ...ntence Translation 6 5 6 2 4 Chinese English Sentence Translation 6 6 6 2 5 Button Functions 6 6 6 3 Penpower Input Tool 6 8 6 3 1 Phonetic Input Tool 6 8 6 3 2 Keyboard Input Tool 6 9 6 3 3 Dictionary Input Tool 6 9 6 3 4 Symbol Input Tool 6 9 Chapter 7 Fast User Switching 7 1 ...

Page 7: ...ticle 12 Without permission any company firm or user shall not alter the frequency increase the power or change the characteristics and functions of the original design of the certified lower power frequency electric machinery Article 14 The application of low power frequency electric machineries shall not affect the navigation safety nor interfere a legal communication if an interference is found...

Page 8: ...t time constraints Laser pointer You can highlight main points in your presentation with the built in laser pointer Handwriting Function Multilanguage recognition kernel The Pen recognizes over 23 000 Traditional Simpli fied Chinese characters Hong Kong characters HKSCS 2001 Japanese Kanji Kataka na Hiragana Korean English letters symbols and numbers Artificial intelligence recognition kernel Let ...

Page 9: ...eft button Handwriting mode When press the left button the system will replace the recognized character with the next candidate character Press again replace to the next candidate character and so on 1 2 Hardware Introduction 1 2 1 Hardware Specification 1 Dimensions 118mm x62mm x 16mm 2 Weight 58g 3 Writing Area 56mm x43mm 4 Radio Frequency 2 4G 5 Transmission Distance 10m 6 Continuous Battery Co...

Page 10: ...tylus out you can use this area as a mouse pad 7 Laser light When press the laser point button See item 4 it will turn this red laser light on 8 ID matching button If there is more than two Presenter Pens or wireless devices around you and interference your writing or presentation you may push ID matching button to match your Presenter Pen and your wireless receiver Please refer to 2 7 ID Code Mat...

Page 11: ...etween the New pen mode Penpower mouse mode and Mouse mode If you installed the Traditional Mode press this button to switch between the Pen mode and Mouse mode Presenter mode Press this button during the presentation to display the black screen 13 Presenter Handwriting mode switch Switch up to the Presenter mode Switch down to the Handwriting mode ...

Page 12: ...ents 1 Intel Pentium II 300 CPU or above 2 256MB RAM 3 250MB of available hard disk space 4 Windows 7 Vista XP 5 USB Port 2 2 Handwriting Software Installation 1 Please insert CD ROM disc into the CD ROM drive and the system will automatically launch setup exe Select the Setup Penpower Jr option ...

Page 13: ...older and type Typical installation is recommended Besides Penpower Jr offers two Writing modes New Pen Mouse and Traditional mode We recommend that you choose to install the New Pen Mouse mode If you are an existing Penpower Jr user and prefer to use the Traditional mode then you may choose to install the Traditional mode instead The only different between the two modes is the interface the funct...

Page 14: ...custom installation type you can check every single function to install except the functions in grey color 4 Click Next to use the default folder name 5 Click Automatically load Penpower Jr if you wish to automactically run Penpower Jr when the computer starts ...

Page 15: ...are Connection 1 Open the battery cover of the Presenter Pen hardware and put an AAA battery in 2 Pull the wireless receiver out from the Presenter Pen hardware and plug it to the USB port of your computer Tip If any signal interference you can connect the wireless receiver to an extension USB cable to avoid the interference equipment 2 4 Run Penpower Jr Handwriting System Run Start All Programs P...

Page 16: ... 4 Click on OK to finish the calibration Tip After calibration the new configura tion would take effect immediately You do not need reboot or reload Penpower Jr handwriting system 2 7 ID Code Matching After you connected the Presenter Pen and launched the Penpower Jr you should able to write right away If there is more than two Presenter Pens or wireless devices around you and interference your wr...

Page 17: ...click It the Presenter Pen twice quickly 5 The left and right buttons are act as the left and right buttons of the mouse 2 8 Mouse Mode Operation 1 Moving Put the pen on the Presenter Pen and then move it on the panel gently 2 Press the ID matching button on the back side of the Presenter Pen 3 An ID matching is successful window appears when the ID matching is done ...

Page 18: ...n Penpower Jr Handwriting System If you installed New Pen Mouse Mode and run Start All Programs Penpower Jr Pen power Jr you will see the window as following Note Please make sure that you have switched the Presenter Handwriting mode switch down to the Handwriting mode ...

Page 19: ...ng review and some function buttons such as AI learning tool phrase signature and on line translator When Penpower Jr is launched for the first time it will display the New Pen mode Left mouse click on the Menu button or right mouse click on the toolbar to open the options menu Select Penpower mouse mode to switch to the Penpower Mouse mode In the Penpower Mouse mode click on the Switch button to ...

Page 20: ...s Right click the mouse on the or click menu to open the menu Double click to close the New Pen mode toolbar tempo rarily Click and select Writing mode to open the New Pen mode toolbar Horizontal Swicth The New Pen mode provides vertical and horizontal layout of the toolbar Click but ton to select the layout of the toolbar Menu button Candidate words Menu button Symbol table ...

Page 21: ...de it means that the last word is finished and the next word start to write Free writing You can handwrite multiple characters before recognition at one time Forty one charac ters at most is allowed It permits left to right or top to bottom free writing order Remem ber to keep adequate distance between two contiguous words when you write It affects the result of character segmentation The candidat...

Page 22: ...strokes may be recognized as one word Wrong example 2 The two parts of one word are written far away from each other All the strokes may be segmented into two words Auto Phrase Correction The system automatically proofreads on your writing content to improve the recognition rate For example when you continuously write 天下太平 four characters but the char acter 天 is incorrectly written as 夫 so they be...

Page 23: ...senter Pen provides the same symbols You can also press the second function button on right side of the Presenter Pen to switch to the Penpower Mouse mode In the Penpower Mouse mode you can select the candi date word post related word phrase or symbol For example In New Pen mode the input 蒙恬科技 had the character 技 mis read as 投 You can press the second function button on right side of the Presenter...

Page 24: ...the AI button the homophone the pre related word the post related word or the phrase correction to correct your result Click the button to see the raw image of your strokes Click the button to open the tutor Click the button to input punctuation symbol Click the button to split one word Click the button to merge one word with next The is to activate the Chinese English translation function Details...

Page 25: ...utting an idiom such as 拔苗助長 and you are not sure of how to write the character 拔 you can write the character 一 instead to input 一苗助長 2 Hover your mouse over the character 一 and wait for a moment to display the Balloon toolbar Click the phrase correction button and the 一 char acter will be changed to 拔 3 If the phrase correction function came up with multiple candidate words these will be shown in...

Page 26: ...been learned 3 4 2 Artificial Intelligence When you use candidate word or AI button to correct result the system will modify its recognition database to adapt your personal writing style to improve the recognition rate 1 Write some words The result would be sent to your cursor location Tip You can also press the second func tion button on right side of the Pre senter Pen to switch to the Penpower ...

Page 27: ...ck button to separate 明 into 日 and 月 3 4 4 Merge When some strokes of one word are written far away from each other the system may recognized it as several words You can use merge function to combined them into one word 1 Write two words 棟樑 the recogni tion result will be sent to the cursor loca tion 2 If 木 and 東 is written far away from each other you may wrongly get three words of result 木東樑 3 H...

Page 28: ...mophone to get the word that you would like to input e g If you want to input the word 豫 1 Write any homophone of 豫 e g 玉 2 Hover your mouse over the word 玉 for a while to display the Balloon tool bar 3 Click button to open the window of homophone words 4 You can click button to toggle other Zhuyin homophone Cantonese homo phone Hanyu homophone 5 Click 豫 to replace 玉 ...

Page 29: ...ow of post related phrases If the correct phrase 科技 is in the list click it to update the result 6 You will see the wrong result 蒙恰料技 is already updated as 蒙恬科技 at last 3 4 6 Related word For any two contiguous words the first one is the pre related word of the second one The second one is the post related word of the first one e g 科技科 is the pre related word of 技 and 技 is the post related word ...

Page 30: ...tton for switch ing to the Penpower Mouse mode You can click Artificial Intelligence function to adapt your personal writing style Please refer to 3 4 2 for details 3 5 2 Learning String A string is represented by a single symbol You can write the symbol anytime and the rec ognition engine will recognize it as the entire string minimizing needless writing 1 In Penpower Mouse mode click the Learnin...

Page 31: ...4 Presenter Pen 3 Write your symbol twice according to the instructions 4 Click the Manage DB tag You can browse though the animated symbols for strings or any of the strings you have assigned a symbol to ...

Page 32: ...logue 2 Click Insert to open the Phrase Input dialog You can input a new phrase here e g If you want to insert 一不做二不休 as a phrase input 一不做二不休 You need to update the phonetics on the right side Click button to hear their pronunciation and check if the one you choose is right Note The maximum length of one phrase is 200 word In fact the phonetics is only for VoiceReader to read text with right soun...

Page 33: ...e As function to manage your phrase database yib Note Although you can create several phrase database you can only choose one at one time 6 Import file Click Import and select one phrase database yib or text file to import it into current database The text file format must follow this rule one phrase in each line You can edit it by any editor e g NotePad Note Every imported phrase would own phonet...

Page 34: ... will be shown 3 In signature mode the left button is defined to change color Select the color of inking Select the thickness of inking Select the pen style Clear all Undo one stroke Redo one stroke 4 Click button to cancel signature 5 Click button to insert your signature at the position of your cursor 6 Click button to overlap your transparent signature with MS Word or MS Excel document ...

Page 35: ...mode and press the Online Translator button to open the Online Translator function Press the button again to close the function When reading English or Chinese articles if you encounter unknown characters or phras es Hover your mouse over the characters and a translation window pops up to explain them for you When you move your mouse outside the interactive scope the window will disappear In the w...

Page 36: ...Chapter 3 New Pen Mouse Mode 3 19 The Online translator is used in the balloon interface When you want to look up a char acter s translation select button from the candidate window ...

Page 37: ...hrase e g If you want to input the phrase 一年四季 just write the first word 一 2 Press the second button on the right side of the Presenter Pen to swicth to the Penpower Mouse mode All the phrases beginning with this word 一 will be listed on the phrase area of the Penpower Mouse mode 3 Click the phrase or memorized word that you want to send it into the caret e g 一年四季 ...

Page 38: ... writing is not recognized incorrectly as Traditional Chinese Note Traditional to Simplified option is available only when you switch to simplified version 2 Traditional character All of the results are in Traditional Chinese 3 Traditional Simplified You will get traditional words while using traditional writing and you will get simplified words while using simplified writing 3 6 Settings In Penpo...

Page 39: ...turn on Unusual charac ter option Running Hand Select this option to recognize run on cursive Hongkong Character This recognition mode is available only when the Penpower Jr set to BIG5 or BIG5 HK You can connect to http www microsoft com hk hkscs default aspx to check the Hongkong characters list ...

Page 40: ... recognized as one byte ASCII code or double bytes code Auto load Start Penpower Jr when Windows starts Direction You can select the orientation of the Presenter Pen as Horizontal or Vertical The Hori zontal provides right handed and left handed choices Sound Pronounce the character in Mandarin or Cantonese immediately after recognition ...

Page 41: ...othness of color gradation when selecting Multiple Ink width Select the thickness of inking Ink sound Select the sound effect while writing Pen style Select the pen style Speed Select the writing speed The less the relative value is the shorter the timeout for recogni tion after you ve stopped writing ...

Page 42: ...k Penpower Junior options then click Version 2 For the Win2000 XP Vista operating systems for Traditional Chinese Traditional Chinese Hong Kong or Simplified Chinese the output of the handwriting recognition is always encoded using Unicode If after switching versions you cannot see the message displayed correctly at the bottom of the dialog box your Windows operating system may not support the ver...

Page 43: ... the BACKSPACE key 3 Enter simulate the ENTER key or 4 Space simulate the SPACE key 3 7 3 Mix Traditional and Simplified Writing No matter what characters you write just set the recognition engine to determine whether the output is shown as Traditional or Simplified Chinese See 4 6 1 for more details You can mix writing traditional and sim plified Chinese words For example you can write the two wo...

Page 44: ...e and Type You can switch between the input modes as you like Note If you can t activate the New Pen mode please visit the Microsoft website and in stall the necessary handwriting In the Handwrite mode you can adjust the font size and the font color When done you can write on the tablet and the words will appear in your selected font size and color If you want to clear the words you have written y...

Page 45: ...3 28 Presenter Pen set ink width set ink color set the rubber ...

Page 46: ...ms PenpowerJr Penpower Jr you will see the Traditional Handwriting window 4 2 Writing Mode There are two kinds of writing modes One is Full Screen mode the other one is Writ ing Pad mode You can click the button to toggle these two writing modes Note Please make sure that you have switched the Presenter Handwriting mode switch down to the Handwriting mode ...

Page 47: ...ils 4 3 Full Screen Handwriting 4 3 1 Balloon UI This unique user interface let you edit recognition result freely in any application The visual user interface is hidden transparently When you want to correct some word just move the cursor position on this word for a while The function tool bar will be popped up there where the cursor is Please refer to Chapter 3 4 for more details ...

Page 48: ... the next candidate word It lets you correct the result quickly without switching to mouse mode Click the second button on the right side of the Presenter Pen or click on the writing area again to switch into mouse mode The color of writing area will change from yellow into gray Tip The writing pad adopts shrink expand user interface It would expand into normal size when the cursor move on it Othe...

Page 49: ...onetic input tool of Zhu yin Cantonese Han pin or others 2 Click the phonetic button one by one in order 3 The converted candidate character would be listed in the text buffer 4 4 3 Keyboard Input Tool Keyboard Simulated software keyboard Inner Code For example the inner code of in hexidecimal is A1EE Click A 1 E E button one by one in order and then get 4 4 4 Dictionary Input Tool Query by radica...

Page 50: ... Mode 4 5 4 4 5 Symbol Input Tool The special symbols are grouped into multiple pages of table Select the suitable table and click the symbol what you want to get It allows you to customize the symbol tables Query by stroke ...

Page 51: ... written right following this word 一 will be listed on the bottom 5 Click the phrase or memorized word that you want to send it into the caret e g 一方面 4 5 Phrase 4 5 1 Use Phurase to input words 1 In both the Full Screen and Writing Pad modes the Associations dictionary window will always be displayed Note In the Full Screen Handwriting mode if the Associations dictionary is closed select Open Re...

Page 52: ...nition It also allows you to customize the phrase database to meet your needs 1 Open the Penpower Jr main menu and select Open Related Phrase Then select Edit Phrase from the Phrase menu to open the Edit Phrase diolague to edit the dictionary 2 Click Insert to open the phrase input dialog You can input a new phrase here Please see Chapter 3 5 3 for more details ...

Page 53: ...ature Move the cursor to where the signature will be Then select Signature from the main menu to open the Signature window and enter to the signature mode Please refer to Chapter 3 4 4 for more details 4 6 3 On Line Translator Select Online Translator from the main menu to open the Online Translator function Select again to close the function Please refer to Chapter 3 5 5 for more details ...

Page 54: ...ured here Please switch to the General setting page and in the Display area you can choose whether to display the window title and the buffer area Title bar Show hide the caption of writing pad Buffer Show hide the text buffer of Writing pad If the buffer is displayed all the recognition result would be put here After the buffer is full the first word would be popped out into the caret You can als...

Page 55: ...ords Whatever you wrote choose different recognition engine to decide the results being traditional or simplified words Please see Chapter 3 7 3 for more details 4 6 8 Using Penpower Jr in MSN Messenger If you have installed MSN Messenger version 6 1 or higher and Penpower Jr you can use Presenter Pen to input or draw in the MSN Messenger Please refer to Chapter 3 7 4 for more details 4 6 5 Switch...

Page 56: ...tton to highlight the main points in your presentation with the red laser light 4 Mouse area When pull the stylus out you can use this area as a mouse pad to move your cursor click and double click the mouse area Note If you do not need to use the mouse function during the presentation please do not pull the stylus out to avoid activating the mouse in the dark 5 Timer setting button Let you set th...

Page 57: ...n for a while you can reset the timer 6 Black screen button During the presentation press the black screen button to display the black screen 7 Presenter Handwriting mode switch Switch upward to the the Presenter mode Switch downward to the the Handwriting mode ...

Page 58: ...hapter 6 Assistant Tools If you selected the Typical or Custom type during the installation you will find Pen power VoiceReader Penpower Translator and Penpower Input Tool In the Custom type you could select the functions to install ...

Page 59: ...r if there is no sound 6 1 Penpower Voice Reader The Penpower Voice Reader utilizes a state of the art text to speech technology it will read in fluent Mandarin or Cantonese of any articles You can use it as a tool for fast proof reading or in teaching the correct Mandarin Cantonese pronunciation 6 1 1 Use Penpower Voice Reader 1 Run Start All Programs Penpower Jr Penpower VoiceReader Note Before ...

Page 60: ...er 6 Assistant Tools 6 3 6 1 2 Reading Setting 1 Click select Setting the Setting window will appear Speech Speed Adjust speech speed Speech Pitch Adjust speech tone level Speech Volume Adjust speech volume ...

Page 61: ...wer Input Tools make sure the Penpower Jr has been started Otherwise you ll be asked to start the Penpower Jr first 6 2 1 English Words 1 Click the button En Ch on the left side of window 2 In the input field on the upper left corner enter an English word press Enter key to see the Chinese translation 3 Choose different tabs on the top of the translation field to look up the Define Variation Idiom...

Page 62: ... to look up is Traditional Chinese please select the Traditional Ch En translation option 6 2 3 English Chinese Sentence Translation 1 Click the Sentence En Ch button on the left side of the window 2 In the upper input frame input English sentences or an article click the button to translate The translation results are shown on the lower frame Tip When you translate a whole article make sure there...

Page 63: ...you use Sentence Translation click on the upper or lower frame and then clcik the button to hear pro nunciations of the whole sentences or the article Previous Next Look up the definitions for nearby words Cut Cut the selected content Only available when translating an entire sentence Copy Copy the selected content Paste Paste the cut or copied content Only available when translating an entire sen...

Page 64: ...ssistant Tools 6 7 Tip When typing a single word a list of possibe word will show up during the typing You can use the direction keys to select that word as the input and then press Enter key to look up that word ...

Page 65: ...l be asked to start the Penpower Jr first 6 3 1 Phonetic Input Tool There are three types of phonetic inputs provided by the Penpower Jr Zhu yin Yue Pin and Han pin You can also create your own phonetic input How to Use 1 Select a phonetic input Han pin Yue Pin or Zhu yin 2 Click the screen keyboard buttons one by one in order 3 The converted candidate character is listed in the text buffer Tip Th...

Page 66: ... input a character or symbol e g The inner code of in hexadecimal is A1B8 Click A 1 B 8 in that order in the screen to display 6 3 3 Dictionary Input Tool Query by radical Query by stroke 6 3 4 Symbol Input Tool Special symbols are displayed on several tables Select a table and click the desired symbol You can customize the symbol tables ...

Page 67: ...use Penpower Jr without reinstalling on each account For example to activate Fast User Switching from Windows XP click the Start button select Settings then click Control Panel Select User Accounts and then click Change the way users log on or off Select Use the Welcome screen and Use Fast User Switching and then click Apply Options The Penpower Jr will work now no matter which account is used to ...

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