Class 345/472 - Scaling

Subclass of Class 345 - Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Definition: Subject matter wherein a size of displayed font is modified.
No. of applications: 22
Last issue date: 10/13/2011

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20110249013	PLUG-IN ARCHITECTURE FOR DYNAMIC FONT RENDERING ENABLEMENT A computer system provides a plug-in architecture for creation of a dynamic font. The computer system can incorporate a new filter function into a filtering layer of a font program. The filtering layer includes pre-defined filter functions to transform a base font into ...	10/13/2011
20110219335	Accommodating Very Large Fonts on Memory-Constrained Electronic Devices Accommodation of large fonts on a memory-constrained electronic device is provided by storing a first set of font bitmaps on the electronic device in various faces, styles and sizes and storing a second set of font bitmaps in one size and style. When a command is receiv...	09/08/2011
20100079490	INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD An information display method displays a plurality of display frames arranged in a table on a display screen. Each of the display frames enables display of a plurality of information pieces, and a selected display frame is enlargeable, while non-selected display frames ...	04/01/2010
20090256847	PICTURE DISPLAY DEVICE A picture display device including a display unit which displays a picture in accordance with a picture signal included in a broadcast signal. A display control unit displays a picture for an electronic program guide including characters on the display unit in accordanc...	10/15/2009
20090225086	INFORMATION OUTPUT APPARATUS AND INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM The most-frequently-used font size on a Web page acquired from a server unit is determined. The font size is changed so that the font of the most-frequently-used font size (Sdominant) may take a preset optimum font size (Sopt). At the same time, the fonts of the remaini...	09/10/2009
20090015665	Medical diagnostic ultrasound video timing control Video signals are controlled in an ultrasound imaging. The line synchronization and/or frame rate may be set for any desired purpose, such as to match an acoustic scan rate. The pixel clock rate is set based on the line synchronization or frame rate. Since the line sync...	01/15/2009
20080218522	SCALABLE STROKE FONT SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as unique e...	09/11/2008
20080150947	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM FOR MAKING COMPUTER EXECUTE THE METHOD In an apparatus and method for processing information, the font sizes of characters in display content are changed in different magnifications for each of the font sizes so as to display the content in a legible size when the size of the display area is changed. A progr...	06/26/2008
20080079753	METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION Methods and systems are disclosed for presenting information for viewing by a driver of, e.g., a vehicle, of a train, a captain of a ship, a pilot of an airplane, or by any other person who has to gaze in a certain direction, especially for observing or monitoring the e...	04/03/2008
20080082913	Digital numeric display with adaptive character width A technique is disclosed for dynamically adjusting dimensions of characters, such as digits, displayed on a configurable display, such as in a human-machine interface. The height of the characters is fixed and the width is altered depending upon the number of characters...	04/03/2008
20080068385	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING A SCREEN IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL An apparatus and method for changing a screen size in a portable terminal are provided. In the apparatus and method, an input portion provides a request for a change to one of a specific font, a specific font size, and a specific screen size. A font adjuster changes a c...	03/20/2008
20080068384	Method and Apparatus for Preserving Font Structure A method of preserving the structure of a font character being scaled comprises analyzing the font character to determine if the font character is complex. If the font character is complex, information concerning the strokes forming the font character is extracted. The ...	03/20/2008
20080024502	Document editing device, program, and storage medium [OBJECT] To create a document including an object (or objects) having a beautiful well-balanced layout even if a volume of the object (objects) changes [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING THE OBJECT] The present invention provides a document edit device i...	01/31/2008
20070262993	SCALABLE STROKE FONT SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as unique e...	11/15/2007
20070153003	Font-size changing and printing method, and host and printer therefor A font-size changing and printing method and a host and a printer therefor are provided. The present invention receives a before-change font size in a unit of font size generally used in software applications and an after-change font size in a unit which a user is famil...	07/05/2007
20070139415	Stroke contrast in font hinting Stroke contrast is preserved for a range of font sizes and display resolutions using programmatic constraints or “hints”. One implementation of a “font hinting” approach enforces a regularization of stroke weights such that stroke contrast is preserved for font ...	06/21/2007
20060209074	Methods and portable apparatuses for displaying characters A method for character display receives a request comprising information regarding a character to be displayed on an area corresponding to a first coordinate on a screen, acquires a bitmap image corresponding to the character, determines at least one second coordinate n...	09/21/2006
20060209075	METHOD FOR GENERATING A DOT-BASED IMAGE OF A CHARACTER BY SCALING STROKES OF THE CHARACTER A method generates a dot-based image of a character (such as a Chinese character) by establishing a monochrome or gray-scale stroke data set, selecting a plurality of strokes from the stroke data set, scaling the selected strokes, and combining and adjusting the strokes...	09/21/2006
20060146054	Use of an input overscaled bitmap to generate emboldened overscaled bitmap A computer-implemented simulated emboldening mechanism for emboldening an input overscaled bitmap to generate an emboldened overscaled bitmap. The simulated emboldening adjusts the number of subpixels to turn on in the direction of emboldening taking into account contex...	07/06/2006
20050179705	Navigation within a large computer file Disclosed herein is a method and graphical user interface (GUI) for navigating within the contents of a computer file, and specifically within a large non-paginated graphical file. A first portion of the file is displayed at a first magnification. Thereafter, an option ...	08/18/2005
20050162430	Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants The principles of the present invention relate to using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants. A computing system accesses a scaled font that has been scaled for rendering at a target size and a target resolution....	07/28/2005
20050078113	Management of presentation time in a digital media presentation system with variable rate presentation capability Techniques are provided for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In one embodiment, Presentation Time is converted to Data...	04/14/2005

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