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7619627 Image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus having: a first screen processing section for performing a screen processing to image data; and an outline processing section for determining whether to output or not...
7609269 Assigning color values to pixels based on object structure  
Systems and methods are provided for assigning color values to pixels based on object structure. For example, when rendering a writing system symbol on an electronic display, a non-color...
7609268 Arrangement for the scaling of fonts  
The invention relates to a method for presenting a character by using a scalable vector font. In the method, for said scalable vector font, at least first and second scalable vector fonts are...
7602403 Combining raster and vector data in the presence of transparency  
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for preparing one or more vector data objects for rendering. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving an object that is a vector...
7602390 Edge detection based stroke adjustment  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for rendering a glyph to make it more readable. In an implementation, a glyph associated with a font to...
7598954 Adapting and rendering graphic effects  
Methods, systems, and computer program products adapt and render a graphic effect associated with text rendered via an output device. A method involves receiving a character associated with a...
7595804 Systems and methods for displaying individual processor usage in a multiprocessor system  
A display of CPU utilization in a multiprocessor system is provided. This feature illustrates processor utilization and application group assignments to CPUs and clusters of CPUs. Various graphic...
7587087 On-line handwriting recognition  
The invention relates to on-line handwriting recognition. At least one auxiliary line is displayed on a touch sensitive panel. Each of the auxiliary lines constitutes a portion of more than one...
7583397 Method for generating a display list  
A method and apparatus for generating a display list, for use in rendering a plurality of glyphs, is disclosed. The method creates a display list for storing representations of the glyphs and...
7583393 Multiple font management system and method  
A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need...
7583267 Stroke contrast in font hinting  
Stroke contrast is preserved for a range of font sizes and display resolutions using programmatic constraints or “hints”. One implementation of a “font hinting” approach enforces a...
7580039 Glyph outline adjustment while rendering  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that implement a method for adjusting a glyph outline while rendering. In one aspect a method includes receiving a glyph to be rendered...
7580038 System and method of caching glyphs for display by a remote terminal  
A method and system of operating a remote terminal by a terminal server caches representation data of glyphs to be displayed on the remote terminal to reduce the amount of glyph data that have to...
7573476 Font representations  
Methods for rendering font objects include: receiving input identifying an object to be rendered; selecting a data set for rendering the object from: (a) a first data set including font object data...
7570263 Map display device and navigation system therewith  
When an area corresponding to area information is determined to use a default font, an ECU displays characters by using the default font stored in a ROM. When an area corresponding to area...
7557806 Method to protect display text from eavesdropping  
A system and method for displaying a glyph on a graphical user interface to protect the displayed glyph against eavesdropping. The method comprises providing multiple frames of the glyph, each...
7552085 Method and apparatus for automated trading of equity securities using a real time data analysis  
A system and method for buying and selling securities based on volatility and liquidity rather than other fundamentals is demonstrated. The method involves: providing at least one decision model to...
7548240 Drawing apparatus, drawing program, recording medium and drawing method  
A drawing apparatus includes a management part managing data recorded in a recording part, a first obtaining part obtaining data for drawing, which is used in common by a plurality of programs,...
7538771 Mail data processing method, mail server, program for mail server, terminal device and program for terminal device  
A mail server extracts a character unregistered in a portable terminal from received mail data and affixes the font data of the character concerned to the mail data or inserts a reading tag...
7535471 Scale-adaptive fonts and graphics  
Scale-adaptive fonts and graphics are disclosed. In some embodiments, an indication of a desired overall size for the graphic is received. The graphic is scaled to the desired overall size. A shape...
7532216 Method of scaling a graphic character  
A graphic character that has a character matrix with a number of character units that are indivisible at least in either a horizontal direction or a vertical direction is scaled by dividing the...
7518610 Display apparatus, display control apparatus, display method, and computer-readable recording medium recording display control program  
A display apparatus is designed to make a display corresponding to one pixel through the use of a plurality of rectangular display elements. The apparatus comprises a multi-gradation character...
7505041 Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language  
The principles of the present invention relate to iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language. A computing system accesses a more complex constraint that can not be natively...
7505040 Composite characters font hinting  
An auto hinting module defines typographically relevant control points and relative offset constraints for use in composite character generation. Control points in one or more dimensions are...
7499055 Method of font generation for displaying the thickness of strokes of characters  
The present invention employs the notion of a Chinese writing brush in moving a geometric figure to produce a style of calligraphy, where the area of the geometric figure is large or small, then...
7492370 Management method and display method of on-screen display thereof and related display controlling device  
A OSD management method for writing OSD data into a memory, the management method includes: respectively writing a first partial data and a second partial data of the first OSD data into a first...
7492366 Method and system of character placement in opentype fonts  
A method and system for optimizing the horizontal spacing of superscripts and subscripts in open type font designs is disclosed. The system includes a module for vertically aligning and spacing...
7492365 Method and system for font building  
A method and system for font building by providing for the downloading of a subset of glyphs at a client device from a server. The subset can include one or more particular requested glyphs. The...
7492286 Reduced keyboard character selection system and method  
A system and method of selecting a character for display in a communication device having a display and a reduced-key keyboard is provided. One of the plurality of keys on the reduced-key keyboard...
7483570 Software and method for creating a dynamic handwriting font  
A machine-readable storage medium storing executable code is configured to cause a machine to randomly alter a shape of a character. A method for creating a dynamic handwriting font includes:...
7471295 Multi-variate data and related presentation and analysis  
A recursively partitioned/nested geometric structure is employed to graphically present and/or facilitate analysis of multi-variate data, including functions of multi-dimensional variables. Visual...
7468732 Character display apparatus and character display method, control program for controlling the character display method and recording medium recording the control program  
A character display apparatus is provided, which comprises a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, and a control section for controlling the display device. Each of the plurality of...
7461351 Interactive formatting interface  
An interactive formatting tool enables a user to analyze and modify the formatting properties that have been applied to a text string. A user can invoke the formatting tool by displaying an...
7453462 Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal  
Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes storing a set of European alphabet letters in a memory, inputting an...
7443399 Communication terminal apparatus and method for displaying characters on communication terminal apparatus  
A communication terminal apparatus that displays, on a display unit, character data included in e-mail messages, wherein the controlling unit ( 20 ) detects, among pieces of character data, pieces...
7429988 Methods and apparatus for convenient change of display characters on a handheld device  
A method and apparatus for convenient changing of a character display on a handheld device is disclosed. An example handheld device includes a screen to display an alphanumeric character, the...
7414627 Maximize data visibility using slated viewer  
A slanted viewer is provided to maximize data visibility. In the context of computer graphics and a rendering technique, the slanted viewer's use of three-dimensional rendering provides an instant...
7412360 Method and apparatus for shape deformation and placement  
A method for deforming a plurality of shapes is described wherein each of the shapes comprises a set of parametric curves. The method comprises: providing a parametric surface, and forming a...
7411589 Liquid crystal color display system and method  
Methods and apparatus are provided for a color liquid crystal display (CLCD). The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the CLCD for receiving a character code and a color code and translating...
7408555 Adjusted Stroke Rendering  
Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for rendering a stroke (e.g., a line or glyph). An initial adjustment value can be calculated for the stroke, and an offset amount calculated...
7403297 Printing system that manages font resources using system independent resource references  
A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the “resource access...
7391419 Information distribution system  
An information distribution system configured to deliver various types of content provided by an information distributor to information receivers through a network and transmitting the content to...
7388591 Size-based font smoothing  
Font smoothing technology is employed to enhance the readability of rendered text. Various font smoothing approaches can be used by an application to optimize the readability of text to be rendered.
7385606 International font measurement system and method  
A system and method automatically determines appropriate font characteristics for different display mediums and different readability parameters in any language. A method includes determining font...
7379075 Method and system for the representation of color and other attributes in bitmap fonts  
Colors are specified within the individual glyphs of a font by means of an indirect approach which employs multiple tables. The data values for individual pixels of a glyph identify entries in an...
7365889 System and method for transparency optimization  
One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if...
7355744 Image processing method for superimposing high-resolution character data on low-resolution image data  
600 dpi binary character shape data is created from 600 dpi character data inputted by a PC and written sequentially to a memory. The 600 dpi character data inputted from the PC and 300 dpi image...
7355654 Character display control circuit  
A character display control circuit comprises a selection circuit to select and output, as one of the RGB signals, one of a first voltage, a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and one or...
7345688 Semantic thumbnails  
A method is provided for displaying a page formed of discrete elements, such as a Web page, on different computing devices. The method converts the page into a semantic thumbnail, which preserves...
7342585 Use of an input overscaled bitmap to generate emboldened overscaled bitmap  
A computer-implemented simulated emboldening mechanism for emboldening an input overscaled bitmap to generate an emboldened overscaled bitmap. The simulated emboldening adjusts the number of...