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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...