TUAT Nakagawa Lab. HANDS-kuchibue_d-97-06-10
                    On-line Handwriting Database
              Application Form and Conditions of Use


[About the Database]
  The on-line handwriting database
TUAT Nakagawa Lab. HANDS-kuchibue_d-97-06-10 (hereafter, this database) is
a reduced version of an original collection HANDS-kuchibue_d-97-06
collected by Nakagawa Lab., Tokyo University of Agri. & Tech. (TUAT).
  This database consists of on-line handwritten character patterns from 10
writers out of 120 writers of the latter for a sample text excerpted from
Japanese newspapers, covering Japanese, Chinese, Latin/numeric characters,
and other symbols.  The database is available for research purpose
according to the conditions of use as given below.


[Application Form]

Name: (First)_______________ (Middle)______________ (Family)______________

Organization:_____________________________________________________________

Address:__________________________________________________________________

        __________________________________________________________________

Tel:___________________ Fax:___________________ E-mail:___________________

I have read and agreed to the conditions of use as below and hereby apply
for the database for research purpose.

Name:_______________________________ Title:_______________________________

Signature:__________________________ Date:________________________________


[Conditions of Use]
1. The database supplied by Nakagawa Lab., TUAT, under this agreement can
   only be used by the named applicants (an academic organization aiming
   to enhance the public interest).
2. The database can only be used for research purpose. It can not be used
   for commercial purposes whatsoever.
3. The sample text according to which handwritten patterns were collected
   can only be used for research purpose to recognize the handwritten
   patterns collected in this CD-ROM.
4. All usage of the database should be appropriately acknowledged. And in
   publications, the database should be referred to as "TUAT Nakagawa Lab.
   HANDS-kuchibue_d-97-06-10", or "HANDS-kuchibue_d-97-06-10" in brief.
5. In reporting the recognition result on this database, the way the
   database was used should be specified such as which sets are used for
   learning and which sets are used for evaluation.
6. Nakagawa lab., TUAT declines the responsibility for any direct,
   indirect, incidental and/or accidental damage caused by the use of this
   database and accompanying software.

*Nakagawa Lab., TUAT retains the copyright of the database under this
agreement except the sample text.
*The sample text is extracted form the database CD-HIASK *93 which stores
the news in the year 1993 by Asahi Shimbun (Newspaper) and it is used for
this on-line handwriting database under the permission of Asahi Shimbun.
Asahi Shimbun retains the copyright of the sample text.
*The access library to the contents of the database is a part of the
product of "Enhancing Handwriting-based User Interface" supported by the
Advanced Software Enrichment Project of Information-technology Promotion
Agency (IPA) under MITI and it is provided under the permission of all the
collaborators.  IPA and the collaborators: Hitachi Software Engineering
Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd, Nakagawa Lab., TUAT retain the
copyright of the access library.


[Contact Address]
Prof. Masaki Nakagawa
Dept. of Computer, Information and Communication Sciences
Tokyo Univ. of Agri. & Tech. 
Naka-cho 2-24-16, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8588, Japan
phone: +81-42-388-7144, fax: +81-42-387-4604
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~nakagawa/
E-mail: nakagawa@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Masaki Nakagawa Lab.
Dept. of Computer, Information and Communication Sciences
Tokyo Univ. of Agri. & Tech. All Rights Reserved.