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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7417619 | Determining a minimum size of presentation data The system, method and program of the invention enables a presentation authoring tool, that is used to create presentation data for later projection, to determine a recommended font size for the created presentation data displayed on a display screen of a computer e... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408555 | Adjusted Stroke Rendering Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for rendering a stroke (e.g., a line or glyph). An initial adjustment value can be calculated for the stroke, and an offset amount calculated based on the initial adjustment value, such that a minimum number of... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7317833 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method There are provided an image processing apparatus and image processing method which can increase the processing efficiency upon obtaining data which allows re-use and re-editing of a document such as a paper document. While image data is input, and pieces of characte... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7307632 | Font emulation A method and apparatus for Font Emulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises stripping a first portion from a first font to emulate a second font upon request for such a second font. In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus comprises a process... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7170528 | Fast glyph rendering for vector based fonts A method of rendering a glyph of a vector-based font comprises the steps of: generating a MIP map for a glyph, where the MIP map comprises at least one level having a plurality of pixels and where each level is generated from original vector data for the glyph; and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168039 | Method and system for reducing the horizontal space required for displaying a column containing text data A method and system for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of columns on a display screen is disclosed. The at least one column of the plurality of columns has at least one entry containing text data. The method and system in... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6992671 | Method and apparatus for compressing Bezier descriptions of letterforms in outline fonts using vector quantization techniques Vector quantization provides font contour data reduction. Characters are defined in a font collection using segmented outline forms and common references stored to curve segments for similar segments in different characters of the font collection. Compressing the fo... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967657 | Light source system for a color flat panel display A system for operating a color flat panel display (FPD) is provided that includes a color FPD, a rear light source, and a display processing device. The color FPD has an adjustable color depth and is configured to reflect ambient light. The light source transmits li... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6927773 | Font processing device, terminal device, font processing method, and font processing program The invention provides a font processing device. In font enlargement, a target font to be enlarged or reduced is divided into columns or rows, and a cost is calculated based on the pixel pattern formation for each column and row. In enlargement processing, a cost re... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6816170 | System and method for robust and efficient resizing of simple polygons A system and method are disclosed that enable robust resizing of a simple polygon in a computationally inexpensive manner. A preferred embodiment is operable to handle various resizing events that may be encountered when resizing a simple polygon, such as self-inter... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6657626 | Font controlling method and apparatus A font controlling method and apparatus in a so-called on-screen display (OSD), in which, when displaying letters or the like of different languages, well-balanced high-quality display that is easy and comfortable to see is enabled without abbreviating a ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6556204 | Image processing devices and methods An image processor is composed of a game device body, an operation panel and a display. The game device body is composed of a data processor 12 and a memory 12. The data processor realizes a hit determining circuit 112, an enemy control circuit 112, an en... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6525734 | Display control apparatus, display control method and computer program product A display control apparatus controls attributes of characters to be displayed on a display unit. The display control apparatus includes a storage storing predetermined attributes, and a converter for converting attributes of each of characters making up a... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6377262 | Rendering sub-pixel precision characters having widths compatible with pixel precision characters Image data processing and image rendering methods and systems whereby images are displayed on display devices having pixels with separately controllable pixel sub-components. Images, such as text characters, are displayed on a display device with at least... | 04/23/2002 |
| 5625375 | Method and apparatus for a multiple font display A method and apparatus for displaying more than one font on a limited dot matrix display device are disclosed. In addition to displaying characters in a standard font based on using all pixels in a five by seven pixel matrix, a custom font set based on a ... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5519824 | System and method for storing and displaying font data representing fixed-width and compressed characters A system and method for storing and retrieving fixed-width and compressed characters of at least one font, which includes memory having a plurality of memory addresses for storing instructions and encoded character font data representing fixed-width and c... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5450096 | Character generating method and apparatus In a character generating method and apparatus for producing a bit map image of a designated character size from outline data, a character developing circuit calculates a shearing factor of a target stroke when a conversion scaling factor is smaller than ... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5404436 | Computer method and apparatus for converting compressed characters for display in full size The invention method and apparatus employs font metrics data related to font bitmaps for characters of a desired font. Position offsets of pieces in composite characters are read from the font metrics data and are converted to the appropriate pixel offset... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5221921 | High speed character generator In a high speed character generator of the type employing reduced font characters, the improvement wherein font parameters are contained in a random access memory that is addressed by a master processor and supplies the font parameters directly to a bit m... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5206931 | Picture file system A picture file system including a recording medium having a picture zone and a reduced picture zone divided therein. In a picture recording mode, a full-size picture data is recorded in the picture zone and a reduced picture of a predetermined data size c... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4829453 | Apparatus for cataloging and retrieving image data An apparatus for cataloging and retrieving image data is programmed to store not only image data obtained by scanning each original but also reduced image data obtained by thinning these image data and search data used for the convenience in search operat... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4686649 | Word processor with alternative formatted and unformatted display modes A word processor supports an unformatted mode which includes display of a partial page and supports a formatted mode which includes display of the displaying format of an entire page of text. Both modes impose minimal burden on the display allowing use, f... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4586156 | Word processing system for displaying information in full character and layout mode A word processing system operates either in a normal display mode or in a layout display mode. In the normal display mode, characters are displayed on a display screen in a size suited for recognizing the contents. In the layout display mode, a full page ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4555191 | Method of reducing character font A method of reducing the size of a character font in a word processor or an office computer. Digitized font data representative of a character font is constructed in a dot matrix consisting of a plurality of rows in an X direction and a plurality of colum... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4517604 | Method for reducing line width variations in bilevel video images For use in a teleconference system, a method of reducing line width variations, which are assumed to be the result of undersampling of the original image. Bilevel data received at a remote site is written into a pair of two-dimensional storage arrays. Dat... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4511267 | Method for changing the supply of characters in an ideographic typewriter by combining and storing individual characters Method for altering the supply of characters which are represented by data stored in the character generator of an ideographic typewriter and which can be displayed, under control of the character generator, in at least one standard character area of a di... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4486857 | Display system for the suppression and regeneration of characters in a series of fields in a stored record A microprocessor having a limited display capability is programmed to display a series of data fields from a record in which certain characters are selectively suppressed so that the whole or a selected portion of a record is represented. Upon actuation a... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4476464 | Arrangement for reducing the display size of characters stored in a character store An alpha-numeric character generator arrangement having a character store (ROM) in which characters are stored in a character format contained within a co-ordinate character matrix of 10×6 discrete character elements. For television interlaced display us... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4455554 | Proportionality in minature displays In a word processing system having a keyboard display for data entry and modification, and a printer with a choice of pitch, the technique is presented for displaying on less than the entire CRT screen a representation of a full page of text being process... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4412252 | Image reduction system A system is provided for reducing the total information contained in an image in order to reduce the size of the image. In an image comprising a number of lines, each line including a plurality of dots, first reduction means deletes data representing a pr... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4373194 | Full page representation through dynamic mode switching There is described a technique for use in a word processing system for displaying a representation of the full page of text on less than an entire CRT screen where the full page representation is proportional to the hard copy output which eventually resul... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4168489 | Full page mode system for certain word processing devices An electronic system for reducing a full page of text to fit onto the visual display screen of a partial page display word processing device for purposes of reviewing the format and page layout of the text. The text is not always legible in this condensed... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4156238 | Display apparatus having variable text row formating A circuit is described for selectively increasing the number of text rows on the display screen of a CRT. The number of scan lines in each text row is reduced by one in response to a display format selection signal. The scan lines so saved are utilized to... | 05/22/1979 |
| 3999167 | Method and apparatus for generating character patterns Apparatus for generating a character pattern where the character pattern comprises a plurality of dots where certain ones of the dots fall within the character outline and others of the dots fall outside of the character outline, the apparatus comprising ... | 12/21/1976 |
