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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070288844 | Automated context-compensated rendering of text in a graphical environment One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automates context-compensated rendering of text in a graphical environment. First, the system receives a specification of the graphical environment that includes text to be rendered in the graphical environm... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070226641 | Fonts with feelings Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the instructional nature of fonts and/or the ability to create instructional fonts. Font characters are modified based on user interaction to enhance the user's understanding and/or fluency of the word. The ... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070226611 | Character display device and character display method The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching unit ... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070220424 | Visual guides for word processing application styles A graphical user interface is disclosed for providing a visual and/or numeric aid facilitating the use formatting styles in word processing application programs and others. Visual and numeric indicators are assigned to all styles defined within the word processing appli... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070204220 | RE-LAYOUT OF NETWORK CONTENT Techniques for modifying network content layout to be presented by an application are disclosed. More specifically, the content layout or portions thereof can be altered to facilitate specific tasks including, but not limited to, enhancing readability. For example, cont... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070136664 | Selecting and formatting warped text Selecting and formatting warped text is disclosed. Text effects such as an underline effect and/or a strikethrough effect may be transformed along with rectangular text to form a warped text element. In such a situation, the text effects are warped with the characters o... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070130516 | Visually enhanced text and method of preparation A visually enhanced text and methods of production are described. The visually enhanced teaching text comprises a first text and at least one additional text. The first text is displayed in horizontal lines. The at least one additional text displayed interlinearly with ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070061714 | Quick styles for formatting of documents Users may quickly format their document in a natural way without having to understand the intricacies of how styles work. With quick formatting, the user can easily capture the look of an element, assign a name, and then have that element available in their document as ... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20060085743 | Semantic thumbnails A method is provided for displaying a page formed of discrete elements, such as a Web page, on different computing devices. The method converts the page into a semantic thumbnail, which preserves the overall appearance of the page and displays readable text segments tha... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20050240759 | Method and system for copy protection of displayed data content A method for altering text displayed in a formatted page, including locating a buffer of memory locations containing contents of a formatted page, locating a first text string between two markers within the buffer, the first string being an encrypted text including N ch... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050193337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting font size in an electronic program guide display A method and apparatus for adjusting font size in an electronic program guide display are provided. A multiple channel broadcasting system generates an electronic program guide identifying channels and corresponding programs in a broadcasting system. The broadcast syste... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050174587 | Print control apparatus, print control method, and program for print control A print control apparatus carrying out a print control processing for print data undergoing a print processing in a print apparatus, comprises a print data receiving unit that receives the print data; a print data processing unit that carries out image processing for th... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050166160 | User interfaces which display aggregations of records that include fields whose values can be set null or empty A method of providing a user interface for use with a data base, wherein the database includes plural records, each having plural data fields therein, wherein a data field contains information taken from the group of information types consisting of entered information, ... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050086595 | Page boundary detector A logical gate and a comparator are used to detect page boundaries in a data stream. A current address and a predetermined page size, that is an integer power of 2, are compared using a Boolean logic gate such as AND or XOR to detect a page boundary in a data stream. Th... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050039138 | Method and system for displaying comic books and graphic novels on all sizes of electronic display screens. A method and system for displaying comic books, and graphic novels on all sizes of electronic display screens. This method maximizes visual quality and text legibility by: displaying one panel, e.g., image at a time, and by generating and sizing the text balloons based ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050034073 | On screen displaying device supporting proportional font and method thereof An on-screen display device which supports a proportional font, and a method thereof. The method includes reading fonts which correspond to string characters, deciding a font width, deciding a shift parameter of a font based on the font width, combining a font shifted b... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050005236 | Method of displaying a document The present invention relates to methods of displaying a document in a graphical user interface wherein a redundancy of information comprised within overlapping views of the document is exploited to reduce a number of panes displayed. The present invention also provides... | 01/06/2005 |
