Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5930810 | Printing system with pre-defined user modifiable forms and local and remote printing A printing system operates on a computer system to enable creation of a variety of printed products. The printing system takes either a kiosk form or a personal system form. The printing system contains a variety of definitions of products in its storage ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5924106 | Tape printing device and method A data processing device and method permit improved display of data and characters on a display. When an enlargement display key is input after designating characters, a line or block, on the enlargement display flag signal is indicated. The device and me... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5903905 | Method for simultaneously constructing and displaying a dynamic preview of a document that provides an accurate customized document A method for simultaneously constructing and displaying a dynamic preview display of a document. The method provides an accurate representation of the preview of the document and of the customized document itself. An initial preview display of the documen... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5885012 | Printing apparatus The present invention relates to a label printer that has a plurality of keys for defining a label to be printed. Such keys include keys for defining the format of the label. The label printer also includes a display for displaying an image of the label, ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5857212 | System and method for horizontal alignment of tokens in a structural representation program editor An editor for structurally represented computer programs transforms user-entered text on-the-fly into a stream of tokens that constitute words of the program under edit. Each token is classified as one of group of extended lexemes, and based upon token st... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5819301 | Method and apparatus for reading multi-page electronic documents A method and apparatus for providing an optimized page-based electronic document file and downloading the optimized file. An optimized document file is created from a non-optimized electronic document. Page contents are contiguously written in the optimiz... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813019 | Token-based computer program editor with program comment management A user-friendly text editor for structurally represented computer programs is disclosed. The present editor combines advantages of text editors and structure editors by transforming, as the user types, the text stream entered by the user into a token stre... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5778403 | Method for displaying text on a rendering device to accurately represent the text as if displayed on a target device A method and system are disclosed for displaying text in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and faithful to a printed output. Characters of a document displayed by a visual display in a computerized text processing system are positioned accurately ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5754873 | Method and apparatus for scaling a selected block of text to a preferred absolute text height and scaling the remainder of the text proportionately The invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting the text height within a displayed image. A preferred absolute text height is input to the computer system by a user and is stored. When text images are displayed by the computer system, a sele... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5752058 | System and method for inter-token whitespace representation and textual editing behavior in a program editor A user-friendly editor for structurally represented computer programs is disclosed. The present editor combines advantages of text editors and structure editors by transforming, as the user types, the text stream entered by the user into a token stream, w... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5748975 | System and method for textual editing of structurally-represented computer programs with on-the-fly typographical display A user-friendly editor for structurally represented computer programs is disclosed. The present editor combines advantages of text editors and structure editors by transforming, as the user types, the event stream entered by the user into a token stream, ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5727223 | Document processing apparatus A document processing apparatus includes a display unit for visually displaying a character train, a generating unit for generating display position information on the display unit on the basis of visualization position information corresponding to a char... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5680629 | Method and system for previewing computer output A method and system for previewing computer output is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the computer output is previewed in a preview area. The computer output has several elements, or pages, arranged in rows and columns. A mag... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5659770 | Text/image processing apparatus determining synthesis format A text/image processing apparatus obtains image information by extracting resolution, tone, and hue to an extent that editing information such as image layout information associated with a document image can be sufficiently generated, the image informatio... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5652901 | Method and system for previewing computer output A method and system for previewing computer output that preserves the horizontal and vertical adjacency of the output. The computer output is previewed in a preview area. The computer output has several elements, or pages, arranged in rows and columns. A ... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5640580 | Method and system for previewing computer output A method and system for previewing computer output is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the computer output is previewed in a preview area. The computer output has several elements, or pages, arranged in rows and columns. A mag... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5630150 | Automatic editing device for an english letter In an automatic editing device for an English letter, text data of the English letter is input by operating character keys and a space key, and an automatic edit key is then operated. The input text data is displayed at a left end portion of a display, an... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5455898 | Analyzing an image showing a graphical representation of a layout Input image data define an input image set that shows a graphical representation of a layout with two or more segments. The graphical representation can be a sketch, and can include, for example, a rectangular boundary with lines parallel to its sides def... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5444828 | Document processing device and method A document processing device and method performs print position setting of an item content to be printed on a paper sheet, while ascertaining the appearance (layout) that the selected print position setting will produce if printed, by displaying the appea... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5295236 | Applying traps to a printed page specified in a page description language format A trapping technique which accepts a Postscript or other page description language (PDL) file and outputs a file in PDL format having the correct traps. The input page is first divided into sub-portions, or tiles, and the tiles are individually processed ... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5287445 | Layout displaying apparatus for a word processor A layout displaying apparatus has the capability to display a layout of a text in at least one layout display region of a display. The layout displaying apparatus includes a layout display control for displaying a single page of stored data in each layout... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5278952 | Document processing apparatus having layout display control system A document processing apparatus has a layout display control system including a current page identification display controller a current page changing device, and a document data display controller. A current page number indicating a current page can be c... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5251292 | Method and apparatus for an equation editor A method and apparatus carried out on a digital computer for creating and editing mathematical equations in a printed document is disclosed. This invention allows the user of a wordprocessing program to create and edit mathematical equations in an efficie... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5210824 | Encoding-format-desensitized methods and means for interchanging electronic document as appearances A database system is provided for interchanging visually faithful renderings of fully formatted electronic documents among computers having different hardware configurations and different software operating environments for representing such documents by ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5204959 | System for determining image size ratio of data for presentation of proper size on displays or printers from optical storage An image information processing apparatus for retrieving image information from an optical memory. This apparatus has a buffer memory for storing the retrieved image information, a size converting (enlarge/reduction) circuit for converting the size of the... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5079724 | Word processing apparatus having image-format control functions A word processing apparatus with a function of an image-format control includes an image data storage for storing image data imputted in a certain format, an reading unit for reading the image data from the image data storage, a display device for display... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4951233 | Document producing apparatus having in-document layout display A document producing apparatus comprises an input unit for inputting descriptive contents such as characters or figures which contstruct a document and a format which defines a sheet size of a paper sheet used, a sheet direction of portrait or landscape i... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4839829 | Automated printing control system A system for automated control of the printing of a work comprises a first terminal adapted for use by a printing requester for receiving from the requester a informaton concerning parameters for the printing of the work. A second terminal is adapted for ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4829455 | Graphics system for video and printed images A graphic system for producing printed images. The signals representing the image are produced as CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow) printing color component signals and transformed to RGB (red, green, blue) signals for display on a monitor. The transformation c... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4649513 | Apparatus and method for processing system printing data records on a page printer A method and a system for creating visual displays in a visual display device of data from an input data set. First, at least one of a plurality of stored sources of resource information is selected. Each of these sources is defined by and under the contr... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4648067 | Footnote management for display and printing A method of managing body and footnote text during preparation, review, editing, and printing of a document. Preparation can be accomplished in a one pass input keying operation without regard to (1) storage of the body and footnote text, and (2) numberin... | 03/03/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4503515 | Footnote assembly management A method of, and system for, managing assembly and formatting of footnotes and body text. Following preparation and separate storage of both body and footnote text, assembly of the footnote text with the body text can be accomplished in one pass for a rev... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4491933 | Word processor Word processor having a keyboard including standard typewriter keys and additional user keys including a plurality of function keys for implementing word processing. A CRT simulates and electronic sheet of paper with margins on four sides and an index sca... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4451900 | Method and apparatus for text editing display In a word processing system that includes a printer for printing text material and a display screen for viewing portions of the display material, a graphical representation of a page of text is displayed for editing purposes, the graphical representation ... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4410958 | Displaying a proportionally outlined miniature page There is disclosed a technique for displaying on a relatively small CRT display, using less than the entire screen, a representation of a full page of text. The full page is represented using character indicators rather than recognizable characters. The f... | 10/18/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4212077 | Text processing system for displaying and editing a line of text A text processing system comprises a keyboard, a printing unit, a display unit having the capacity of displaying up to a line of entered text and a control unit which updates the display unit upon each entry of a character from the keyboard, and enables t... | 07/08/1980 |
