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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098250 | Adaptive and dynamic text filtering A device sensor determines an external state of a device. Text to be displayed on a display screen of the device is dynamically filtered based on the external state of the device. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7580039 | Glyph outline adjustment while rendering Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that implement a method for adjusting a glyph outline while rendering. In one aspect a method includes receiving a glyph to be rendered at a size; generating from the glyph an outline of line segments, each... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7492366 | Method and system of character placement in opentype fonts A method and system for optimizing the horizontal spacing of superscripts and subscripts in open type font designs is disclosed. The system includes a module for vertically aligning and spacing characters and a module for horizontally aligning characters having diff... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7425970 | Controllable pixel border for a negative mode passive matrix display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. In particular, the border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 09/16/2008 |
| 7411589 | Liquid crystal color display system and method Methods and apparatus are provided for a color liquid crystal display (CLCD). The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the CLCD for receiving a character code and a color code and translating them into character and color pixel arrays that are overlaid and summ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7379076 | Using pixel homogeneity to improve the clarity of images The present invention provides for improving image clarity through sub-pixel positioning of the image in a grid space based on pixel homogeneity scores. The pixel homogeneity scores indicating the uniformity of state for sub-pixels produced from an over-sampling of ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7355744 | Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data 600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image data are stored as 300 dpi 8-bit graphics data. Next, 600 dpi 8-bit mu... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7292249 | Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points. A computer system identifies a point of junction between a first and second feature of the outline. The computer s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7271805 | 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. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262774 | Character image generating apparatus, character image generating method, display control apparatus, display control method and computer-readable recording medium recorded character image generation program or display control program thereon The present invention relates to a character image generating apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of types of partial base line generating units, a vector font data storing unit, a partial base line length calculating unit for calculating a line length of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7239318 | Method and computer software program product for processing characters based on outline font A method and computer software product for processing outline fonts is described to skeletonize character fonts based on their outline data. The method may comprise: reading font data from an outline font dictionary that stores the outline data of an outline font, p... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224489 | Font characteristic driven halftoning Characteristics of text or text components or features are considered when selecting halftoning screens. For example, an italic slant angle of text is recognized and used to select or generate a compatible halftone screen oriented at the same angle. A screen frequen... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7176933 | Texture based method and system for the anti-aliasing of lines and characters A method for generating anti-aliased lines and characters is disclosed. The method comprises generating a texture map based on a distribution and applying the texture map to a polygonal region. In one aspect of this embodiment, the step of generating a texture map b... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158148 | Display equipment, display method, and recording medium for recording display control program A three-times magnified pattern of a central target pixel and horizontally contiguously adjacent sub-pixel patterns next thereto are determined on the basis of a reference pattern that has a rectangular profile and further that consist of eight-neighboring pixel abo... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152211 | Resolution independent theming Several systems and associated methodologies are provided for rendering a themed image while mitigating pixelation and/or the disproportionate appearance thereof when the image is sized and/or scaled. The systems include at least one sizing module adapted to size co... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7086010 | Three-dimensional graphical icon appearance in displays of electronic devices A strong three-dimensional icon is created for low-resolution displays such as used in portable communication devices by alternating light and dark stripes, with some stripes changing from light to dark and back to light to indicate a shadow, and other stripes from ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7064759 | Methods and apparatus for displaying a frame with contrasting text An area within a frame is defined in which text or an image is to be generated. The text or image may also include an optional border surrounding and adjacent to the text or image. In accordance with one embodiment, in order to increase the contrast between the text... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7023439 | Activating a filling of a graphical object A method is disclosed for activating the filling of a graphical object. The method generates, for a current scanline, a plurality of edge records associated with an edge of the object from a previously generated edge record for a previous scanline. One of these edge... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006096 | Character display apparatus, character display method, and recording medium A character display apparatus includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels, one of a plurality of color elements being pr... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6954216 | Device-specific color intensity settings and sub-pixel geometry A method for determining device-specific information for pixels to obtain an optimal display of fine structure monochrome images on an output display device, the method comprising determining a set of device-specific pixel input values that will cause the display sy... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6831662 | Apparatus and methods to achieve a variable color pixel border on a negative mode screen with a passive matrix drive A display unit is constituted by a passive matrix of independently controllable pixels characterized by an active area of n rows and m columns of discrete pixels and a pixel border. The pixel border has a predetermined width, in one embodiment two pixels. The border... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6798906 | Image processing apparatus and method including line segment data extraction The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method that enables extraction of line segments of an arbitrary width from multi-valued images not uniform in background. To extract line segment data constituting a line segment, image data is scanned... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6753862 | Outline smoothing method and system There is provided an method for a character-outputting apparatus which is capable of storing a character image defined by a character font, as bitmap data in the form of a dot matrix, and printing or displaying the character image. The bitmap data is converted tempo... | 06/22/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6614940 | System, method and computer program product for generic outline font compression A system, method and computer program product are provided for compression of characters. Upon receipt of a plurality of characters, at least one test is performed on the characters to determine if an outline of the characters is capable of being approxim... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6597360 | Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text characters The present invention provides for automatic placement of typographical features such as vertical stems or horizontal segments of a character on high contrast pixel sub-component boundaries as part of a rendering process that uses separately controllable ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6563502 | Device dependent rendering A method for creating anti-aliased characters on a computer output device includes the steps of generating a call from a client process for a character to be rendered, selecting a best alignment grid from a set of alignment grids associated with the devic... | 05/13/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6542157 | Font decoration by automatic mesh fitting A method of creation of artistic effects in object outlines is disclosed including the steps of generating a mesh over the internal area of the outline; forming a series of areas from the mesh; for each of the series of areas, warping one of a predetermin... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535213 | Curve edition system, curve-loop detecting system, curve-loop removing system Two curves indicating the border of an object in an image are simply edited and loops formed owing to edition of the curves indicating the border of an object in an image are detected and removed. A curve edition apparatus according to the present inventi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6504543 | Polygon drawing method and polygon drawing apparatus A polygon drawing apparatus for drawing a polygon which is colored inside its outline by using outline data indicating the outline of the polygon, the apparatus comprising: an outline data generation unit for generating outline data indicating the outline... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6421054 | Methods and apparatus for performing grid fitting and hinting operations Methods and apparatus for utilizing pixel sub-components which form a pixel element of an LCD display, e.g., as separate luminous intensity elements, are described. Each pixel of a color LCD display is comprised of three non-overlapping red, green and blu... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6380940 | Processing graphical objects having origins defined with elasticity To process the layout of graphical objects, elastics data structures are established for the graphical objects to define minimum and preferred sizes, stretch properties and compression properties. Composite graphical objects include elastics properties co... | 04/30/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6339426 | Methods, apparatus and data structures for overscaling or oversampling character feature information in a system for rendering text on horizontally striped displays The resolution of text rendered on a display device having sub-pixel elements, such as an RGB LCD for example, and in particular, on a display device having horizontal striping is enhanced by (i) overscaling (or oversampling) character outline information... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6249273 | Method of and device for displaying characters with a border It is often desirable to display characters with a border. This border is generated on-line in accordance with the invention in that for each instantaneous raster line preceding and succeeding raster lines are read and column-wise combined in conformity w... | 06/19/2001 |
