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| 8159495 | Remoting sub-pixel resolved characters Remoting sub-pixel defined text. Text is remoted at sub-pixel precision in a computing environment including a terminal server and a terminal client. At a terminal server text definitions are generated. The text definitions include character definitions defining cha... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154551 | Coordination operation method and communication terminal When a character input is necessary during an execution of an engine application 39k in an engine section, a character input processing request section 65 of the engine section issues a character input processing request FRQ depending on a r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8139066 | Error metrics for characters Generating an error from an error metric quantifying differences between reference objects representing characters and representations of the reference objects. One embodiment includes a method which includes accessing a reference object representing a character. On... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8106908 | Image generating apparatus and method, and image display apparatus and method To solve the problem that when a space with a set width is inserted after each character to regularize the spaces between characters the overall character spacing is widened, making text less easy to read, there are provided a character control code storage unit ( | 01/31/2012 |
| 8081188 | Image delivering apparatus and image delivery method A determining unit determines a vector conversion method for a character image based on the character image and model information of a terminal device that receives the character image. A processing unit performs a vector conversion on the character image by the vec... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059126 | System and method for indicating special characters to be interpreted literally In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to perform a task using a special character. The method further includes receiving from a user an indication specifying an interpretation of the special character and storing the indication. The method further... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044961 | Automatic synthesis of font tables for character layout Data tables that are required for the proper processing of font glyphs are automatically synthesized if they do not form part of an original font definition. The synthesized tables are stored in an annex file that is associated with the font, rather than being incor... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044960 | Character display apparatus A character display apparatus searches through a cache means for vector font data which match character attributes of a character to be displayed to acquire the vector font data, and, when no vector font data which match the character attributes of the character to ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031196 | Display, electronic device, data transmitting method, information terminal, host apparatus, program, recording medium A display device comprises a display section, a pattern specifying code input section which receives a pattern specifying code externally, a pattern storage section which stores therein an image of a predetermined pattern, and a pattern display processing section wh... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018461 | Device and method for generating a text object A device and a method for generating a text object, in particular, for a geographic map illustration. The text object comprises a multitude of letters and serves for identifying, for example, a geographic characteristic on the map illustration. The text object compr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013860 | Adaptive contextual filtering based on observer colorblindness characteristics Selectively applying graphical filtering to characters can include the identification of observer characteristics and characteristics associated with different portions of the character. Corresponding filters can then be identified and selectively applied to the cha... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982737 | System and method for independent font substitution of string characters Various embodiments of a system and method for independent font substitution of string characters are described. The system and method for independent font substitution may include a font substitution component configured to receive a descriptor item that may includ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973792 | Image forming device and electronic medium and image processing program for image forming device A method for an image forming device, an electronic medium, and an image processing program, which enables external output of image data and font data for the image data with ease. The image forming device includes an input unit, a font data memory unit, a font data... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969441 | Adaptive contextual filtering based on typographical characteristics Selectively applying graphical filtering to a portion of an object can include accessing an object to be rendered and identifying at least one characteristic of a portion of the object. A corresponding filter is then selectively applied to the at least one determine... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965293 | Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program for reconstructing data Device, method and computer program capable of obtaining from image data document data readable and effectively adherable in a region of definite form without waste. According to the device, method and computer program, a document block containing a specific image s... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961191 | Outline font brightness value correction system, method and program Having an outline font data readout unit read a correction subject pixel and surrounding pixels thereof, referring to the already stored pre-correction and post-correction brightness value pattern data that are related to the read correction subject pixel and surrou... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948494 | Character rendering device, display device, and printer A character rendering device includes: a first drawing unit that divides a shape of a character represented by character shape data into partial areas, and renders the shape of the character area by area; a second drawing unit that renders the character on the basis... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940272 | System and method for displaying text A system and method for displaying text are described. According to embodiments of the invention, the system and methods describe operations for displaying text, where the text does not include hints. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940273 | Determination of unicode points from glyph elements Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for determining Unicode points from glyph elements are provided. The tools may receive indications of commands that relate to text containing glyphs. Responding to the commands, the tools may convert the glyphs to co... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7872651 | Error metrics for characters Generating an error from an error metric quantifying differences between reference objects representing characters and representations of the reference objects. One embodiment includes a method which includes accessing a reference object representing a character. On... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7834877 | System-wide content-sensitive text stylization and replacement System-wide content-based text stylization by establishing an array of predefined stylization criteria, intercepting text output generated by an operating system to a graphics device driver, rasterizing the text according to the predefined stylization criteria and p... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7786994 | Determination of unicode points from glyph elements Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for determining Unicode points from glyph elements are provided. The tools may receive indications of commands that relate to text containing glyphs. Responding to the commands, the tools may convert the glyphs to co... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782323 | System and method for adding on-screen display information into a video signal The disclosed embodiments relate to a system (100) that is adapted to process digital video data. An exemplary embodiment of the system (100) comprises a processor (110) that produces a digital video data stream (112), and a character gen... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773089 | Displaying character strings based on font information To provide a display device for enabling preferable Japanese hyphenation while suppressing restriction due to a character code system. A font data memory unit stores font data which contains a plurality of font records each containing font information for displaying... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768513 | Method of rendering text on an output device A method of rendering text on an output device using a pre-developed image of a custom font. An image file defines an image of a custom developed character set. The custom character set may be developed off-line using graphics development tools. Associated character... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7742048 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers based upon semantically labeled strings A method, system, and apparatus are provided for converting numbers to text and to digit shapes expressed in different languages. When a string of text is entered into an application program, the string is analyzed to determine whether the string of text includes a ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742049 | Method and apparatus for displaying characters on a screen A method and apparatus for displaying characters on a TV screen in an electronic appliance such as a DVD player is disclosed. Vertically compressed character fonts are stored. When it is requested to display a character, the stored character font is read and display... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7719535 | Method for displaying character strings A system and method for translating character strings into another national language and displaying the translated character strings without updating any source code. The character strings are displayed on GUI environment upon the execution of the object computer pr... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719536 | Glyph adjustment in high resolution raster while rendering Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that implement a method for glyph adjustment in high resolution raster while rendering. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a glyph for display at a size on a raster output device; rec... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7719537 | Method for reducing size and increasing speed for font generation of instructions A method for compressing font instruction data. The method includes analyzing a set of pixel-per-em values and fractional pixel shifts contained in font instruction for each glyph in a font data set to construct a database of values. The pixel-per-em values and frac... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714868 | Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes storing a set of European alphabet letters in a memory, inputting an alphabet letter to be converted in a European alphabet letter, determining... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710422 | Font representations Methods for rendering font objects include: receiving input identifying an object to be rendered; selecting a data set for rendering the object from: (a) a first data set including font object data in a first format (e.g., trajectory data), and (b) a second data set... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7696999 | Information transfer system, a transmitter, a receiver and a record carrier for use in the system An information transfer system includes a transmitter for transferring to a receiver an information signal having main data and sub data. The sub data includes coded text lines having a plurality of character codes. The receiver is provided with a character display ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697002 | Varying hand-drawn line width for display The present invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art with a system for varying hand-drawn line width as a function of geometric or temporal properties such as curvature or time of the strokes as the user draws them. In one embodiment, the system of the ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697000 | Method and apparatus for typographic glyph construction including a glyph server A system for typographic glyph construction includes a graphics system, a glyph server coupled to the graphics system, and an operating system coupled to the glyph server. An apparatus for typographic glyph construction of input text in a graphics system running on ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7697001 | Personalized ink font Aspects of the present invention relate to the creation of an ink font. Based on characteristics of handwritten characters, the collection of characters may be scaled so as to adjust the size of the font to match predefined size values or relationships. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692656 | Automatic synthesis of font tables for character layout Data tables that are required for the proper processing of font glyphs are automatically synthesized if they do not form part of an original font definition. The synthesized tables are stored in an annex file that is associated with the font, rather than being incor... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7643031 | Image-processing device and program An information-processing device (such as an image-processing device) executes a boldface character generating process when it is judged that a character should be expressed in boldface type based on a drawing instruction inputted from outside and there exists no bo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639257 | Glyphlets Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing and constructing an electronic text document. An electronic document is provided that includes a string having one or more references. The string is parsed t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7629976 | Display device, control method for the same, and information storage medium To provide a display device for enabling preferable Japanese hyphenation while suppressing restriction due to a character code system. A font data memory unit (50) stores font data which contains a plurality of font records each containing font informa... | 12/08/2009 |
