Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7752543 | Applying effects to a merged text path Effects are applied to a shape that is generated from a merged text path. The merged text path is created from text paths that are associated with a text run. Boolean operations may be used to create the merged text path. The merged text path removes any overlap and... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7289123 | Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A ch... | 10/30/2007 |
| 5982387 | Hint assignment method and font file construction method A method of assigning hints for outline-font creation includes a first step of dividing elements having similar outlines into classes, a second step of learning hint assignment by storing hint information which prevails when a hint is assigned by operator... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5805783 | Method and apparatus for creating storing and producing three-dimensional font characters and performing three-dimensional typesetting A system and method for creating three-dimensional or depth image font text characters using graphic three-dimensional object creation techniques and graphics processors. The text characters can be represented as set descriptions of the characters. The te... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5623593 | System and method for automatically spacing characters A system and method for automatically spacing characters by an output device, such as a printer or printing press onto a medium. The automatic spacing process utilizes kerning pairs and associated kerning values as input and results in an output of charac... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5577184 | Character pattern output apparatus A character output apparatus including a memory for storing a first type of character pattern definition having a bit map form and a second type of character pattern definition which can be output in bit map form by an arithmetic operating process. A sele... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5577170 | Generation of typefaces on high resolution output devices A technique is specified for the output of fonts on high resolution output devices, such as photosetters in particular. A processor unit optically scales a digitally stored font, by selecting a single master font in a digitized contour coding, in which th... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5526476 | Method and apparatus for generating character patterns expressed by coordinates of a coordinate system A character generating method and apparatus for producing a character from outline font data, wherein the font data stored in a font memory are converted into coordinate values of a coordinate system of a designated size in a character developing circuit,... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5319358 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typefaces A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each character and the relationship of the visual components of ea... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5304989 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typefaces-vertical adjustment A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each character and the relationship of the visual components of ea... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5291186 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typefaces-diagonal adjustment A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each character and the relationship of the visual components of ea... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5281959 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typeface--horizontal adjustment A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each character and the relationship of the visual components of ea... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5274365 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typefaces-character analysis A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each character and the relationship of the visual components of ea... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5255357 | Method for editing character bit maps at small sizes using connected runs A material of displaying a character on a raster device wherein the character is described by means of one or more paths. The crosses where a path intersects horizontal pixel midlines are identified and paired in scan line order as cross pairs. Runs of pi... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5241653 | Apparatus and method for adjusting and displaying scaled, rasterized characters An apparatus and method of modifying graphic character images to preserve aesthetic aspects of such images involves manipulation of fractional pixel errors resulting from the transformation of a character image from conformance with a matrix of a first re... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5185818 | Method of substituting fonts and displaying characters The invention describes a method for reconstructing characters in a document, which are expressed in one or more fonts, to convert the characters to a different font designed to closely match characters from a plurality of fonts in an aesthetically pleasi... | 02/09/1993 |
