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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4799172 | Apparatus and method for automatic layout of sign text An apparatus and method for laying out a sign containing a plurality of lines of text performs and comprises the steps of entering into a computer information defining the sign text and the heights of the lines of text, providing a spatial factor which co... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4755955 | Document creating apparatus A document creating apparatus allows the insertion of strings of characters within a display area of a boundary figure to have good balance. The display area of the strings of characters is compared with that of the boundary figure. The strings of charact... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4689764 | Method and apparatus for formatting a line of text containing a complex character prior to text justification A word or text processing system has a bidirectional printer with formatting capability. A line of text is printed in one direction, and the printer is backspaced to form complex characters by adding overstrikes, such as underlining or accent marks. The f... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4604653 | Document filing system Items of identification data corresponding to the groups of items of image information which are stored in an optical disk are stored in a floppy disk. Before any group of items of image information is retrieved from the optical disk, the identification d... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4573138 | Justifying with printer level data stream which accommodates footers and headers In order to avoid the problem of the last line of the body text not being justified when it is not the end of a paragraph but is followed by a footer, a converter/processor (13) is provided to modify the print data stream produced by another converter/pro... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4517578 | Electronic apparatus with printer An electronic apparatus includes a printer for graph printing, in which the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the printed graph can be modified by a device for modifying the scales of the graph.... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4467525 | Automated sign generator An automated sign generator produces large scale text on sheet material by means of a cutting tool which is guided relative to the material in accordance with preprogrammed data. The sheet material is supported for movement in one coordinate direction rel... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4437167 | Multiple half-line spacing on a miniature page A technique for displaying a representation of a full page on less than an entire CRT screen in a word processing system. The full page representation uses character indicators to enable the word processing system user to appreciate format and spatial rel... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4054948 | Proportional spacing and electronic typographic apparatus An electronic typographic apparatus includes a multiline display, the top of the display being justified and the lower line constituting a data entry line. Coded typographic data is stored in a character memory, the dot format for the display of character... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3949377 | Data storage and processing apparatus including processing of spacer characters Data storage and processing apparatus for storing and processing data for use by a video display monitor. The data storage and processing apparatus includes a random access memory having a general storage section arranged to store data including display c... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3939458 | Method for the tabulator-like illustration of symbols A method and apparatus for effecting the display of symbols, in tabulated form, on the screen of a data-video device, utilizing a data source, an image repetition store and a symbol generator, in which data is fed by the data source identifying the area o... | 02/17/1976 |
