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6697524 Information processing method and apparatus  
An information processing method and apparatus which uses a memory storing stroke data forming one character together with respective stroke order information to display each stroke data based on...
6693636 Information transfer system, a transmitter, a receiver and a record carrier for use in the system  
The application relates to an information transfer system, comprising a receiver ( 3 ) and a transmitter ( 1 ) for transferring an information signal to the receiver ( 3 ) via a transfer medium ( 2...
6661416 Apparatus and method for drawing character sequence using font data with any data structure  
A character sequence drawing apparatus which stores font data and font processing functions for executing processes for using the font data. The font processing functions are, for example a...
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...
6633292 Recording device and recording method  
A general-purpose system for enabling the user to easily enter characters whose contents are hard to understand at a glance, such as bar codes, by using a general-purpose application program such...
6624814 Optical justification of text  
Method and apparatus for justifying text rendered from a digital font at an output pointsize. The invention includes using a kerning value for a character pair including a space character and a...
6624815 System, method, and apparatus for creating character boxes for on screen displays  
A system, method, and apparatus for displaying a character on a television or monitor screen are presented. The contents from a first memory location are fetched to determine the character and...
6622239 Method, system and computer program product for optimization of single byte character processing employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme  
A method, system and computer program product for optimizing processing of single byte characters employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme in association with an underlying data...
6603478 System, method and a computer readable medium for improving character access  
A system, method and a computer readable medium for controlling character data access between a personal computer and server. This system allows a user to display large amounts of data required to...
6593948 Character information processor  
A character information processor including display means having a display area in which a limitation is imposed on an allowable number of lines of a character string to be displayed, including:...
6583788 Efficiently rendering line segments on a computer display  
A method for rendering a line segment extending in the positive-x direction and positive-y direction on a computer display given a starting point and an ending point, the starting point having the...
6577314 Character generation using data of plural types to which differing priorities are assigned  
For generating characters form data stored in a vector format, are provided two kinds of based skeleton data and data which depends on type style; from this a plurality of type styles are...
6577318 Integrated circuit device and display device with the same  
An integrated circuit device includes a first memory unit and a conversion part for converting the parallel data read from the first memory unit into serial data. The integrated circuit device also...
6573899 Morphing processing apparatus, method, storage medium, program transmission apparatus, and animation creation apparatus  
Morphing is performed without self-intersection in a vector space, for the outlines for various types and shapes of figures. The morphing is performed by apparatus containing an outline extractor,...
6559861 Displaying computer interfaces in multiple languages  
An apparatus and method for displaying a page of a user interface of computer system in multiple languages. The computer system includes a memory that contains a plurality of string values that...
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...
6552728 Method and system for providing substitute computer fonts  
A method and system for providing a substitute font that visually approximates a selected font that is unavailable in a computer system is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present...
6552727 Method for authoring hints for a font using a graphical user interface  
Authoring hints for a font using a graphical user interface. Graphical hints may be dragged and dropped on a displayed glyph using a graphical user interface. A graphical hint is specified by...
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...
6535214 Semiconductor device for display control  
A semiconductor device for display control includes an input section for receiving a display information including a character code, a display position information and a character size information,...
6529197 Method for rendering endpoints of segments during scan conversion of a glyph  
An improved scan converter to support the efficient and accurate display of character outlines by pixel-oriented display devices. To conserve the finite resource of memory, the improved scan...
6522330 Character processing system and method  
A character processing apparatus has a font storage area with at least fonts for representative characters stored therein, and a character information table with storage address for the fonts,...
6512531 Font navigation tool  
Methods and apparatus that enable a user to select a font from a collection of available fonts. The invention receives font data identifying each font in a collection of available fonts, identifies...
6504544 Processing layout of text graphical objects  
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....
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...
6501475 Glyph-based outline font generation independent of resolution  
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating a glyph-based outline font are provided, which allow for font communication between different devices having various (high and low)...
6498608 Method and apparatus for variable weight outline emboldening of scalable outline fonts  
An emboldened font is simulated from a regular font by moving the outline that describes the font along a vector normal to the direction of the outline a predetermined distance. A new emboldened...
6496191 Method and apparatus for character font generation within limitation of character output media and computer readable storage medium storing character font generation program  
A character font generation apparatus generates a font of a character for the output of the character to an output unit. First, whether the character specified through the operation of an input...
6483510 Integrated graphic and character mixing circuit for driving an LCD display  
An integrated graphic and character combining circuit for driving a display device, for example an LCD panel, allows for a configuration by which an external ROM is not necessary, reduces...
6480197 TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER AND/OR RECORD CARRIER FOR USE WITH AN INFORMATION SIGNAL INCLUDING A CODED TEXT LINE HAVING CHARACTER CODES AND CONTROL CODES FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF CHARACTERS DEFINED BY THE CHARACTER CODES  
An information transfer system which transmits and receives an information signal including a coded text line, and displays characters, defined by character codes included in the coded text line,...
6473006 Method and apparatus for zoomed display of characters entered from a telephone keypad  
A method and apparatus to provide users with enhanced visual feedback after entry of data. When a user activates a key or inputs a sequence of keystrokes, a corresponding data character or...
6459431 Method and apparatus for orientating a set of finite n-dimensional space curves  
An undirected graph is generated based on a set of finite n-dimensional space curves. One or more traversal modulations are selected and a directed graph is created by traversing the edges of the...
6438516 Method and apparatus for optimizing unicode composition and decomposition  
A method and apparatus for performing compositions and decompositions of Unicode combined character sequences utilizes a preprocessor to generate compositions and decompositions of Unicode...
6421032 Method of creating external characters in image forming apparatus  
An external character creating method is provided for an image forming apparatus having a display screen. The external character creating method includes the steps of displaying at least a portion...
6421059 Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory  
A system and method for rendering fonts into a memory is disclosed. The system and method comprises a data structure located within the memory. The data structure includes at least one font array....
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...
6411299 Processing text for display on medical images  
A graphic workstation receives digitized medical images and the user creates textual information that is to be displayed on the images. The text along with associated properties are packaged as a...
6404435 Method and apparatus for three-dimensional alphanumeric character animation  
A character is represented in a character generator as a set of polygons. The character may be manipulated using three-dimensional animation techniques. A code for a character may be used to access...
6400367 Character display device and displaying method thereof  
A character display device includes a memory for storing on-screen display (OSD) character data and wallpaper (background) character data, and shift registers for outputting the corresponding one...
6392650 Character line address counter clock signal generator for on screen displays  
A character line address counter clock signal generator for generating a character line address counter clock signal for an on screen display (OSD) circuit used to selectively display a character...
6386978 Video game with variable game space display reduction ratio  
A video game system has a controller including a CPU which functions as a controller action detecting unit, a skiing control unit, and a display control unit. The controller action detecting unit...
6384827 Method of and an apparatus for generating a display  
A method of generating a display to enable the user to be able to easily navigate a complex menu structure on a small display screen. The method of generating a display comprises the steps of...
6377261 Compiling glyphs into instructions for imaging for execution on a general purpose computer  
A method and apparatus for receiving glyph data, specifying glyphs according to a pixel map, and for automatically compiling the glyph data to form compiled glyph code for imaging the specified...
6377966 Graphical interface to select characters representing phonetic articulation and no articulation groups  
A system and method for implementing a user interface for use with Japanese characters includes a font-encoder compiler on a host computer for encoding selected text strings and creating custom...
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...
6366699 Scheme for extractions and recognitions of telop characters from video data  
A scheme for detecting telop character displaying frames in video image which is capable of suppressing erroneous detection of frames without telop characters due to instability of image features...
6356268 Method and system for providing multiple glyphs at a time from a font scaler sub-system  
A method and system for providing multiple typographic glyph data items to a requesting client from a font scaler sub-system. The method and system includes accepting a request from the client that...
6342890 Methods, apparatus, and data structures for accessing sub-pixel data having left side bearing information  
Techniques for accessing oversampled sub-pixels, also referred to as “source sub-pixels”, such that the blocks of source sub-pixels to be accessed are shifted to account for a left side bearing...
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)...
6329993 Character processing apparatus, character processing method and record medium recording character processing program  
To enable the speedup of processing for generating a document image and the reduction of an area for storing a character pattern without using processing requiring time if a character is output, a...