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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305617 | Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7233341 | Spacing objects within a constraint A system and method are described for spacing objects within a constraint. In one embodiment, data that defines the constraint and a set of spacing parameters that indicate how to space objects across the constraint are received. Further, a grid type from a pluralit... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7168037 | Text composition spacing amount setting device with icon indicators Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount for a DTP system. At least one inter-character-class spacing amount setting table, for use in line composition, groups similar characters, forms a plurality of character classes and sets inter-chara... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7069972 | Electronic tape dispenser An electrically powered tape dispenser device has a housing with a base and a top cover that opens to allow placement and removal of a tape roll supply within a tape well. Operation of a push button control actuates a motor and a pinch roller assembly to drivingly e... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7039862 | Text spacing adjustment Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for adjusting spacing between characters in a line of text. A plurality of character classes are specified based on user input. A character class from the plurality of chara... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6972945 | Modular computer device and computer keyboard for modular device A keyboard for a computer receptive to a modular or other device, and a modular touch screen device having at least one changeable virtual key, are described. The keyboard includes a connector receptive to a corresponding connector of a device such as a personal dig... | 12/06/2005 |
| 5883637 | Kerning method and a typographic apparatus utilizing same A kerning method for adjusting a position of an object character relative to an immediately preceding character acting as a reference character, in arranging at least two characters in a predetermined arranging direction based on character frames, i.e. im... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5803629 | Method and apparatus for automatic, shape-based character spacing Apparatus and methods for setting intercharacter spacing for display, rendering or other output of strings of adjacent characters utilize character shapes to set final spacing amounts. The invention stores specifications of characters to be rendered adjac... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5802532 | Kerning method and electronic typographic/editing apparatus A practical kerning method and electronic typo-graphic/editing apparatus which is capable of arranging characters such that two characters do not come too close to each other across a small character or sign included in a character string. In positioning ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5609427 | Kerning method and a typographic apparatus utilizing same A kerning method for adjusting a position of an object character relative to an adjacent reference character already fixed in place, in arranging characters of a character string in a predetermined direction based on rectangular character frames (imaginar... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5501538 | Apparatus and method for adjusting character spacing Disclosed is a system for automatic adjustment of character spacing suited to characters in innumerable combinations, such as in the case with Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana characters in the Japanese language. In character dot data of a plu... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5279222 | Method for preventing counterfeiting of sales and other records A method for preventing counterfeiting or theft of sales, bank checks and other important records and documents comprising alphanumeric characters including, the steps of printing different parts of at least come of the characters in a predetermined seque... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5257869 | Print carriage positioning with normal and precision modes In a typewriting apparatus in the invention, the carrier is driven by a stepping motor. Characters printed by this apparatus are divided into two groups, one for characters frequently used but requiring no higher printing position precision and the other ... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5205660 | Printer capable of generating reduced width bold characters A printer that includes a means for storing print data of a character; a first converter for converting print data to be read into a single dot pattern by performing the function of logical OR of a total of four dot patterns, assuming that a print head mo... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5037221 | Emphasized character dot-matrix printer having two groups of dot-forming elements A dot-matrix printer for printing characters in a matrix of dots wherein columns of dots each column consisting of a suitable number of dots and extending in a given direction are arranged at a predetermined printing pitch in a printing direction intersec... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5007748 | Printer for bar code using thin and thick bar code fonts An impact printing device for printing bar code patterns on an information carrier, the patterns including a combination of parallel thin and wide bars separated by spaces wherein the wide bars can have an imprint width which is a multiple of the thin bar... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4993853 | Matrix character modification information unique to a given font A matrix printer (1) or other imaging device in a memory (7) stores fonts of character data (11, 11') in defining bit maps for each character of the fonts. The memory also stores shift values for each font which vary with the nature of the font for double... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4818130 | Character erasable printing apparatus including selective erasing of variable length underline A character erasable printing apparatus is designed to erase a character or an underline in plural times of erasing action by moving the printing head, and to print a character by a single printing action. Therefore, when an underlined character is erased toge... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4762435 | Lettering apparatus having a printer-keyboard interface A lettering apparatus having an improved interface feature including a printer portion, a data input portion and an interface assembly for connecting the printer with the keyboard comprising an electrical interface, a font motor interface and an initial a... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4758102 | Pen-recording apparatus capable of erasing written characters A recording device capable of writing a character on a sheet of paper with a writing ball-point pen according to a set of character pattern data which is stored in a pattern memory, and erasing a written character with an erasing ball-point pen with relia... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4749289 | Printing device for attribute printing In a printer for printing an attributed character by printing a character part and an attribute part separately, the invented printer or typewriter is so constructed that only an attribute part, e.g., an underline part or a bold face part, is printed in c... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4729678 | Method and apparatus for producing characters in bold form A method and apparatus for printing characters in bold form in a typing system. As disclosed, characters entered through an input device such as a keyboard are printed on paper, placed in a display and stored in memory substantially as they are entered. A... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4692045 | Printing apparatus capable of correcting printed characters by offset prints There is disclosed a printing apparatus provided with a mechanism for erasing printed characters by actuating a type font through an erasing ribbon and a mechanism for selecting characters by rotating the type font, wherein the erasure of a printed charac... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4688956 | Carriage feed control method for bold and shadow printing Inaccurate duplication of the first and the secnd prints due to the inequality of the distance and arrangement therebetween occurs in a serial printer in which a carriage is moved parallel to a platen by a servo motor etc. The first printing in duplex pri... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4668963 | Pen recorder A pen recorder for writing characters and graphic patterns with recording pens on a sheet of recording paper by moving the recording pens in an X-axis direction and moving the sheet of recording paper in a Y-axis direction. When a desired key on a keyboar... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4624588 | Full field MICR encoder A check encoder (11) for printing of full field MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) codes on checks, includes a check guide (19) and means for sensing the position of the check (25,27) in the check guide (19). A pair of fixed roller assemblies (29,3... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4602880 | Dot printing device A dot printing device includes a head having a plurality of head pins, a dot driver for selectively energizing the head pins according to dot data, a character generator, and a data processing unit for causing N-bit dot data constituting designated charac... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4462708 | Automated tape lettering machine An improved dry lettering printing machine of the type having a printing station, a rotatable disc or type font having embossed characters on the disc and a means for causing the machine to execute a print cycle which includes providing a color carrying r... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4436441 | Typewriter accessory device for bold face typing Device for use with a typewriter having manual half back space lever to permit making bold face characters. When bold face typing is desired, the device is removably secured to the typewriter, adjacent to the half-space lever, to permit incremental adjust... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4405244 | Typewriter operating attachment providing for dead key operations A baseplate attachment (12) having actuator elements which extend into an electrical typewriter (13) to initiate operations in response to signals indicative of successive characters to be printed further provides for dead key print operations when desira... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4388005 | Method and apparatus for printing partially overlapping characters Plural imprints of a selected character on a record carrier medium, which imprints are close together, mutually offset and partially overlapping, are generated in an office machine printer equipped with a typing element, in order to correct misprints or p... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4383776 | Typewriter with carriage escape bar adjustment A business machine including a frame, a paper support mechanism and a printing mechanism for successive character printing on paper supported from the paper support mechanism is provided. One of the mechanisms is supported from the frame for guided increm... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4320980 | Machine for typing characters Characters are typed in reverse, i.e. light characters on a dark background by first typing all over the field of the character using an ink ribbon, back spacing and typing the character using a correcting ribbon. The first typing may be effected with a s... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4307971 | Sideshift erase apparatus and method for impact printers Erase apparatus for a typewriter utilizes a special double strike technique to permit quality erasures at normal character overstrike accuracies. The unwanted character is overstruck first slightly to one side and then slightly to the other side in the es... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4225249 | Variable character spacing matrix for proportional spacing printing systems The aesthetic characteristics of adjacent characters are used to enhance the quality of output in a proportional spacing printer and to provide right margin justification for composing. Spacing between characters is determined on the basis of the characte... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4195338 | Computer typesetting Apparatus and methods are disclosed for defining and controlling the relative positioning of symbols in a computer-based imaging system for generating images suitable for controlling a printing operation. Information describing the symbols is stored in a ... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4090187 | Television titling system for producing overlapping characters The invention is applicable to an apparatus which receives a sequence of character-representative signals and which generates stroke signals that are suitable for controlling a scanned display to present the sequence of characters on the display. This typ... | 05/16/1978 |
| 3946407 | Manually operated photocomposing apparatus A photocomposing apparatus is disclosed which makes use of a camera means, memory means and display means, which can select character from a character matrix and store all of the characters thus selected as an image signal in the memory means, which can d... | 03/23/1976 |
