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7046241 |
Oriented three-dimensional editing glyphs
One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for indicating available modifications to a geometric object in a computer drawing program....
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7042458 |
Methods for generating an adaptively sampled distance field of an object with specialized cells
A method generates a distance field for a region of a shape descriptor representing an object. The distance field includes a set of cells for which cell types are defined. A configuration of a set...
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7034830 |
Method for generating a two-dimensional distance field within a cell associated with a corner of a two-dimensional object
A method generates a two-dimensional distance field within a cell associated with a corner of a two-dimensional object. A set of boundary descriptors for the two-dimensional object is determined. A...
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7030881 |
Method for converting two-dimensional objects to distance fields
A method converts a two-dimensional object to a two-dimensional distance field. The object is represented as a set of boundary descriptors and a fill rule. The set of boundary descriptors is...
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7027034 |
Method of moving objects on TV monitor, the computer and recording medium for executing the method
The movement of an object due to the continuous pushing of a simple ON/OFF switch is made an easier-to-use interface for users by a method of moving an object displayed on a screen of a TV monitor...
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7012605 |
Method for generating fonts from very small data sets
A character that includes a character element is represented and/or displayed by receiving a character element code that specifies the character element and skeleton point data that represent a...
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7012619 |
Display apparatus, display method, display controller, letter image creating device, and computer-readable recording medium in which letter image generation program is recorded
A display apparatus includes a display section having plural display elements for displaying a display object with N (natural number larger than one) display elements per pixel, and a display...
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7009611 |
Generating three dimensional text
A method and apparatus are provided for generating three-dimensional text 1403 within images 1601 composited in real time, by means of generating three-dimensional text 1403 from one or a...
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7009617 |
On-screen display device
An on-screen display device that can effectively utilize a video RAM area. This on-screen display device includes a video RAM that holds character data of desired characters that are to be...
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7009612 |
Apparatus and method for font generation, and computer-readable storage medium recording program for the same
A font generation apparatus includes: a basic font storage section storing a font character of a basic font for generating a font character; a feature parameter storage section storing a feature...
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7006095 |
Method for typesetting a set glyphs represented as a set of two dimensional distance fields
A method typesets a set of glyphs. A current glyph is selected from the set of glyphs and a current position of the current glyph is selected. A next position of a next glyph is determined, where...
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7002581 |
Character information processing apparatus, character information processing method and storage medium
A character information processing apparatus outputs a character pattern corresponding to an input data. The character information processing apparatus includes a logic code acquiring unit which...
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6999082 |
Character code converting system in multi-platform environment, and computer readable recording medium having recorded character code converting program
A character code converting system capable of lightening the burden imposed on the management of a code converting library and mapping information on the side of users and of easily and surely...
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6992671 |
Method and apparatus for compressing Bezier descriptions of letterforms in outline fonts using vector quantization techniques
Vector quantization provides font contour data reduction. Characters are defined in a font collection using segmented outline forms and common references stored to curve segments for similar...
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6985146 |
Composite font editing device and computer program
Methods and apparatus for composite font editing in a DTP system. A font file stores multiple different fonts. A composite font editor can select two or more different fonts to create a composite...
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6985147 |
Information access method, system and storage medium
The present invention provides effective information search means, and/or effective acquired information submission means, without overtly expressing an intent (e.g., through the depression of a...
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6980213 |
Terminal device for mobile communication
In a mobile communication terminal device that obtains data including text or an image from an external server through a digital network, a display displays display data DD generated based on data...
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6972764 |
Method and apparatus for transforming a set of closed curves
The preferred method transforms a set of closed curves, such as a typeface, font, or character. The method projects a pattern of continuous curves over the closed curves ( 502 ). The method then...
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6967655 |
Character-string information output apparatus, character-string information output system, character-string information output method, character-string information input apparatus, character-string information input system, character-string information input method, storage medium and character-string information recording apparatus
There is provided a character-string information output apparatus that can avoid any confusion due to a difference between character string commands, and that can improve its expandability. An...
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6967689 |
System and method for providing a variable character size in an on-screen display application
The invention provides a system and method for providing a variable character size in an on-screen display application. The system includes logic means and a font memory means adapted to store a...
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6967656 |
Growing degree unit meter and method
A method for determining the growing degree units (GDUs) accumulated at a particular farm site throughout the growing season, the amount that such accumulation is above or below the average...
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6958755 |
Personalized computer fonts
A system and method for creating a personalized font allow a user to write characters as they should appear when used within a word processing document. A sheet having a grid is printed. The grid...
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6956574 |
Methods and apparatus for supporting and implementing computer based animation
The present invention provides a method for hierarchically decomposing a visual or audio object within an animation into plurality of objects which can be individually edited to achieve particular...
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6937239 |
Method and apparatus for orientating a character stroke
Disclosed is a method of orientating a space curve having two endpoints. The method comprises selecting a desired direction and then generating a first vector having a direction which is same as...
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6934767 |
Automatically expanding abbreviated character substrings
A server machine receives an input string of characters from a client machine, and the string includes at least one abbreviated substring preceded and followed by word delimiters. Each abbreviated...
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6927774 |
Character display device and character display method
A character display device and method therefor are adapted to obtain a proximal reference point of each character comprising a character series and calculate display coordinates of each character...
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6927773 |
Font processing device, terminal device, font processing method, and font processing program
The invention provides a font processing device. In font enlargement, a target font to be enlarged or reduced is divided into columns or rows, and a cost is calculated based on the pixel pattern...
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6922812 |
System and method for presenting text upon the display of a server that employs and X window graphical interface
A system and method are disclosed for a Java X font server, capable of displaying high quality text images on a remote display over a network based on the X Window graphical interface. This system...
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6906707 |
Image processing apparatus and method
A character background color is rendered based on a text command. In such case, if all text commands are rendered as text objects, the obtained background color does not often match other...
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6907131 |
Method and program for producing photographs with autographed messages written in customized character fonts
A novel and unique method and program for producing a photograph of a celebrity figure with personalized and autographed messages. The method includes the steps of collecting signatures and...
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6897870 |
Glyph rendering quantization for subpixel positioning
A Font Quantization Engine receives layout data including font, font matrix, glyphs and position data. This received position data includes non-integer positions for the glyphs to be rendered....
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6882344 |
Method for examining font files for corruption
A method for examining font files for corruption involves an font manager communicating with a remote font server which stores uncorrupted font files. A portion of the font file to be checked for...
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6870535 |
Font architecture and creation tool for producing richer text
A method of creating a series of font characters ( 101 ) on a computer system ( 150 ) is disclosed. A series of font outlines ( 111 ) and source artwork ( 112 ); a series of manipulation tools (...
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6868524 |
Method and apparatus for text layout across a region
The present invention displays text within a region by identifying text boxes within the region. To identify the text boxes, the invention uses scan lines that are spaced at intervals that are...
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6867787 |
Character generator and character generating method
A character generator and its method are suitably applied to such a video title generator for adding title images to a video program. Specifically, the character generator according to the present...
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6856316 |
Apparatus and method of varying font parameters
The present invention discloses a user interface system which enables the parameters (eg character infilling, character color, character opacity, color saturation, etc) of a character font (or...
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6850239 |
3-D character data generating device and a 3-D graphics data generating device
A form analyzing unit receives 2-D outline data stored in an outline data storing unit via an outline data obtaining unit, and judges from the received 2-D outline data whether an outline of a...
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6831645 |
System and method for performing font operations when background color is transparent
One embodiment of a method of performing a font operation involves receiving a set of font data identifying a font operation to be performed. If a first font data unit in the set indicates that a...
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6828971 |
Animation data generation apparatus, animation data generation method, animated video generation apparatus, and animated video generation method
An animation data generation apparatus that supplies a state where a character string can be read in a part of 3D character animation generated based on functions. The apparatus includes an...
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6822652 |
Method and apparatus for parametric variation of text
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and computer program product for positioning a plurality of sub-images such as spheres or circles within a bounded image (such as a character)....
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6803913 |
Warping text along a curved path
A system and method is described for manipulating text relative to a curved reference line in order to transform a character, rendered in a particular font, to generate a warped character with the...
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6803914 |
Method and system for character spacing in graphics terminal emulation
A method and system are provided for positioning characters within an arbitrarily sized graphics window in order to maximize the distribution of unused space. The method and system are particularly...
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6795073 |
Character reading circuit
When a character is present in a line adjacent to a concerned section, bordering is applied to a dot in the concerned section adjacent to that line. To avoid unnecessary bordering, when processing...
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6795074 |
Displaying characters on a dot-matrix display
Displaying characters on a dot-matrix display includes characters for display on a display device and an array of pixel boxes for displaying the characters, where each of the characters is...
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6791547 |
Auxiliary active region determination for line width generation in regionalized rasterizer displays
In one embodiment, selecting auxiliary screen regions to activate in rendering a straight line segment on a screen of a computer monitor, wherein the straight line segment comprises points defined...
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6771267 |
Merging digital fonts
A computer-implemented method of combining fonts. A first plurality of glyphs from a first font and a second plurality of glyphs from a second font are copied into a combined font, each glyph in...
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6766052 |
Character display device, character display method, and recording medium therefor
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 pixels includes a plurality of...
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6766179 |
Cross-shape layout of chinese stroke labels with lyric
A layout of five stroke shapes for inputting Chinese characters in a device is disclosed. The layout is Cross-shaped with relative positions of the five strokes being helpful to users knowledgeable...
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6727902 |
Process for coding characters and associated display attributes in a video system and device implementing this process
The process for coding characters and associated display attributes in a video system consists in: coding a first cue of character type in a first word; coding a second cue of display attribute...
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6717580 |
Method and apparatus using a list of quadruple to encode unicode characters in an upper/lowercase mapping
The invention provides basic 1-to-1 character case mapping information for Unicode characters while using only small amount of memory and at a reasonable speed. The presently preferred embodiment...
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