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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7453463 | Enlargement of font characters A character within a font is enlarged to a desired size by first determining whether the font contains existing or predefined variants of the character having the desired size. If no appropriately sized variant exists, the enlarged character is assembled from a plur... | 11/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7348991 | Video/graphics text mode enhancement method for digitally processed data A text enhancement unit is introduced in order to alleviate the degradation of text characters on computer or television displays. The text enhancement unit uses an enhancement process to regain uniformity and intensity that may be lost during image processing. The ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348983 | Method and apparatus for text image stretching A method and apparatus for horizontally expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character display image to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. Cell lines for each character are remapped to provide expanded cell lines. The flat panel apparatus includ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7307647 | Computer system, display control apparatus, display apparatus, display control method, recording medium, and program transmission apparatus To allow for switching between a normal display and a zoom display by a simple operation, thereby providing both of a large amount of information by high resolution and high visibility of the display. In a computer system having a display apparatus as output unit, a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305242 | System, apparatus, and method for facilitating link selection on electronic devices A system, apparatus, and method for facilitating selection of selectable links presented on a display using an enhanced hovering technique. At least one snap area associated with a link is defined, where the snap area includes a region extending beyond the boundarie... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305617 | Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7242404 | Enlargement of font characters A character within a font is enlarged to a desired size by first determining whether the font contains existing or predefined variants of the character having the desired size. If no appropriately sized variant exists, the enlarged character is assembled from a plur... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7201493 | Illumination system and display device A backlight illumination system for illuminating a large area with light of a uniform color has a set of a pre-determined number of light emitters arranged along a straight line. The set is divided in a plurality of subsets, each subset including at least two light ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7154512 | System and method for image warping A system for generating a target pixel in a target grid from a plurality of source pixels in a source grid, said system comprising, a filter controller for determining a first distance between said target pixel and a source pixel to the left of said target pixel, an... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149369 | Method and system for image scaling A method for image scaling. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for image scaling that begins by selecting an input pixel from a first image. An input edge characteristic is determined from an input window associated with the inp... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7057617 | Font memory and font data reading method Font data for each resolution level is stored in a font memory (10). Character specifying addresses A0 to Ax and font resolution levels L0 to Lz are input to output the optimum font data that match the resolution of... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7015920 | Method and system for providing useable images on a high resolution display when a 2D graphics window is utilized with a 3D graphics window A graphics pipeline for use with a high resolution display is disclosed. The graphics pipeline comprises a frame buffer configuration. The frame buffer configuration includes a first mode area and a second mode area. The graphics pipeline further includes a display ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995749 | Auto font magnification mechanism According to one embodiment, a handheld device is disclosed. The handheld device includes a housing, a display mounted within the housing, and a font magnification mechanism. The font magnification mechanism automatically magnifies a font being displayed on the disp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6967689 | System and method for providing a variable character size in an on-screen display application The invention provides a system and method for providing a variable character size in an on-screen display application. The system includes logic means and a font memory means adapted to store a plurality of bitmaps corresponding to a plurality of characters. A mapp... | 11/22/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6876397 | Menu display apparatus A menu display apparatus including a selection unit for inputting data for selecting an arbitrary one of a plurality of menu items respectively assigned with numbers which are displayed on a screen of a display unit, and a display control unit for displaying on the ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6836271 | Boldfaced character-displaying method and display equipment employing the boldfaced character-displaying method Character data to be displayed is obtained. The obtained character data is boldfaced by increasing a character line width of the obtained character data in a first direction by an amount corresponding to at least a width of a light-emitting element. A boldfaced char... | 12/28/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6606094 | Method and apparatus for text image stretching A method and apparatus for horizontally expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character display image to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. Cell lines for each character are remapped to provide expanded cell lines. The flat panel appar... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6606103 | Infinite resolution scheme for graphical user interface object A method and system for creating a controllable, shaped, and scalable graphical user interface ("GUI") object for use in an application program displayed on a computer. An infinite resolution scheme according to the present invention may display a GUI in ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6392660 | Apparatus and method for displaying zoomed version of stored image by displaying and shifting based on pixel overlap A method of displaying a zoomed version of stored image on a display, where the stored image is defined by a set of data entries mapped to respective pixels of the display. The stored image is first scaled relative to the display in accordance with the de... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6384828 | Digital processing apparatus and method for use in enlarging the size of an image displayed on a 2D fixed-pixel screen Apparatus comprising a logic member and a shear member incorporating an upsampler are used to enlarge the number of pixels in at least one image dimension by a factor F=N/M, where N is a first given-valued integer, M is a second given-valued integer and 1... | 05/07/2002 |
| 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 |
| 5521614 | Method and apparatus for expanding and centering VGA text and graphics A method and apparatus for expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. The present invention stores binary information representing a horizontal row of character text. A prescribed bit in the b... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519412 | Pattern processing method A pattern processing apparatus comprises: a first memory which has character pattern data as coordinate array points and stores data indicating whether the coordinate points are the points constructing an outline of a character pattern or not; a second me... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5122789 | Video display controller for enlarging visual images depending upon display unit A video display controller supplies a raster address signal to a video memory for sequentially reading out a series of video data codes, and comprises a first data register for memorizing a control data code indicative of a bit length to be circulated in ... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5016000 | CRT character display apparatus employing double height algorithm A data display arrangement in which each of a number of different characters displayed on a CRT is defined by selected dots of a dot matrix. The stored character information from which character generating signals are produced is in the form of correspond... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4962465 | Character processor provided with dot pattern correcting function A character processor for reading a source character from a character generator and outputting it to an output unit after editing. It is provided with a dot pattern correcting function, which includes generating a magnified thick character by magnifying t... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4682161 | Variable size character display without loss of obscured character positions A data display arrangement in which selected characters arranged in rows of characters which are displayed on the screen of a CRT can be enlarged selectively at the expense of obscuring other characters, or of preventing other characters from being displa... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4644319 | Addresser designation character pattern generation apparatus for facsimile transmission Scan lines of characters designating the name and address of a facsimile transmitting station or the like are stored in a read only memory (54). The scan lines are read out of the memory (54) and transmitted by a microcomputer (41) prior to facsimile tran... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4573199 | Kanji/Chinese font generation by scaling A method of data compression which allows an enlarged font of complex characters to be produced by scaling from data representing a stored font of complex characters is disclosed. The scaling procedure involves the insertion of horizontal and vertical lin... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4321596 | Method of aligning videotex characters and device for carrying out such a method A method of aligning videotex characters on the screen of a television set, said characters being arranged in horizontal rows each occupying a number of scanning lines, wherein the vertical dimension of the characters and therefore of the rows may be doub... | 03/23/1982 |
