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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070250770 | Document editing device, program, and storage medium A document editing device includes: a data set storage unit that stores a plurality of data sets, each including a character string, an attribute of the character string, and a font size for the attribute; a threshold value storage unit that stores a threshold value ind... | 10/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 20070226615 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 20070094591 | System and method for text legibility enhancement In alternative embodiments, the invention comprises an apparatus, article, and method for modifying the properties of a style sheet having at least one rule associated with a document rendered by a display program on an output device, comprising: determining if the rule... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070061718 | Method for selecting character interpretation mode This invention relates to a method for selecting an interpretation for a character sequence between different interpretation modes. In the solution a character input is received, at least part of the character input is analysed, an interpretation mode is selected based ... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070055934 | Allowing operating system access to non-standard fonts in a network document When a browsing computer navigates to a network document, such as a web page, the corresponding server also downloads computer readable formatting information necessary for the operating system of the browsing computer to render non-standard characters within the networ... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070016874 | Method and apparatus for determining font attributes Methods and apparatuses for text formatting. In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method to determine a font attribute includes: determining a first number and a second number; receiving input resulting from a sliding (or other repositioning method) o... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20070006076 | System and method for providing Asian Web font documents A system and method are provided for browsing Web page documents containing Asian characters with multiple font faces which were not recognizable by a browser in the prior art. The system and method permit a computer user to view the Web page documents containing Asian ... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060265649 | Method and apparatus for layout of text and image documents A mixed text and image layout algorithm capable of supporting Unicode text and arbitrary content definitions for geometric layout with worst case two-pass layout placement procedure. Layout of Unicode text requires a number of distinct processing steps commencing with c... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060242577 | Locale and Operating Platform Independent Font Selection A method, system and apparatus for locale and operating platform independent font selection. In an operating platform having an operating platform configuration and an associated locale, a locale and operating platform independent font selection method can include parsi... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060150098 | Method and apparatus for providing foreign language text display when encoding is not available A method and apparatus include referencing a phonetic language database that includes double-byte font entries and associated phonetic representations of the double-byte font entries. At least one of the double byte font entries is used to obtain a phonetic representati... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060129632 | Remote content rendering for mobile viewing Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with remote content rendering for mobile viewing are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an identifying logic that identifies content elements for which a rendering request is to be made to ... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060090126 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing instant text character identification Embodiments include a method, system, and storage medium for providing instant text character identification. The method includes querying a code page for a character selected for identification, the querying implemented in response to a request for the identification b... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060075341 | MULTI-LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUICKLY SELECTING FONT FILE CORRESPONDING TO CHARACTER FROM FONT DATABASE A multi-language system for quickly selecting a font file corresponding to a character includes a font database and a code allocation table. The font database contains at least one character code range and at least one font-storage unit. Each font-storage unit is for st... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060069992 | Method of managing the printing of characters and a printing device employing method In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by double-byte words and at least a second font file storing glyph data corres... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060026518 | Apparatus and method for processing text data according to script attribute A method of and an apparatus for processing text data recorded on an information storage medium according to an attribute of the text data. One of a plurality of script categories classified according to a language attribute of the text data is extracted; and the text d... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20060015813 | Apparatus and method for reproducing interactive contents by controlling font according to aspect ratio conversion An apparatus and method to reproduce interactive content with control of a font according to an aspect ratio conversion are provided. The apparatus reproduces an interactive content from an information storage medium. The interactive content includes AV data including a... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050273711 | System and method for preparing distributable multimedia presentations The present invention provides a method for providing a multimedia presentation that includes defining a first multimedia presentation comprising text and audio components, wherein the first presentation has a first file size and is viewable using a first presentation s... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050257144 | Driver of image forming apparatus capable of printing selected objects of document, and image forming system for and method of printing selected objects of document A driver of an image forming apparatus capable of printing only selected objects of a document, and an image forming system for and a method of printing selected objects of a document are disclosed. The image forming system capable of printing selected objects of a docu... | 11/17/2005 |
| 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 |
| 20050193336 | Font data processing system and method A method of facilitating the processing of font data for electronic data transfers to client devices includes storing a list of client font capabilities associated with one or more client devices, accessing font data in an electronic data transfer addressed to at least ... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050179932 | Print control method and image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, an inconvenient image expressing format in which it is possible to presume that it occurs in a reconstructed image is predicted and set as a format to be excluded, and this format is transmitted to the image forming apparatus. A feature of... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050177787 | Method and apparatus for font processing In one application, a method according to an embodiment of the invention is used to enable a display of proportionally spaced characters using a fixed-font display controller. ... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050172222 | Automatically laying out dialogs and control panels depending on screen size The present invention allows windows, defined without any explicit resizing parameters, to be resized appropriately to the types of controls contained within them. The approach is to “walk-through” the dimensional definitions for the controls, their sizes and positi... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050134883 | Image forming apparatus having a graphic-LCD and a method thereof Disclosed is an image forming apparatus having a graphic-LCD, comprising a printer module for storing a binary font for an inkjet printer, and converting the inkjet printer binary font which corresponds to an inputted data to an image data to print out, and a graphic-LC... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050138575 | Information processing apparatus with display An information processing apparatus comprises a display which is capable of displaying a display area thereon, and the display area is associated with a running program and is either active or inactive. The information processing apparatus also comprises a first user in... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050108661 | User interface apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating viewing of display indiciaon a user display by a visually-impaired user User interface apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating viewing of display indicia by a user of reduced visual acuity. A user display is divided into a first part and a second part. A screen manager operates to cause display at the first part of the user di... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050097460 | GUI operating method using graphic ID information and apparatus thereof A user graphic interface (GUI) operating apparatus and method using a graphic identification (ID) information, includes a text database for storing therein all text data for display on a screen under corresponding graphic ID information, a pre-processor for selecting da... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050086599 | Method and system for maintaining font sizes on different platforms The invention is directed to a system and method for automatically enabling the font size for text in a web page to be maintained as intended across different types of platforms and without disabling the native controls for adjusting font sizes. If a web page that emplo... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050039122 | Methodology and system for rendering dynamic images Problems inherent to this field of endeavor are 1) once a document is created, it cannot be presented in different fonts, colors, and/or languages, unless a copy of it is made, the desired changes in fonts, colors, and/or languages are applied to the copy, and the copy ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 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 |
