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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7558428 |
Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit
The systems and methods described herein are directed at accelerating video encoding using a graphics processing unit. In one aspect, a video encoding system uses both a central processing unit...
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7523025 |
Host terminal emulator
Disclosed is a host terminal emulator installed in a client computer to detect a coordinate at which a non-protecting attribute is set from coordinates in CUI screen data when it is received from a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7450763 |
Reshaping freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document
The invention improves the appearance of freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document by first recognizing freehand drawn lines and shapes and generating a line made up of sequential...
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7408556 |
System and method for using device dependent fonts in a graphical display interface
An improved system and method for using a device-dependent font in a graphical display interface is provided. A font resource may be included among components provided for executable software code...
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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...
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7369128 |
Method and computer program for constructing complex structure graphic
A general complex structure graph constructing method and the associated computer program is described. The generators and initiators selected by the user are used as the geometrical graphing...
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7348991 |
Video/graphics text mode enhancement method for digitally processed data
A text enhancement unit is introduced in order to alleviate the degradation of text characters on computer or television displays. The text enhancement unit uses an enhancement process to regain...
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7292249 |
Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points
The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points. A computer system identifies a point of...
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7292247 |
Dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects
The principles of the present invention relate to dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects such as text. A computing system identifies a...
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7286121 |
Sub-component based rendering of objects having spatial frequency dominance parallel to the striping direction of the display
Mechanisms for rendering an object on a portion of a display that includes pixel sub-components for each pixel. The pixel sub-components are striped along a certain direction (e.g., vertically or...
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7271805 |
System and method for displaying text
A system and method for displaying text are described. According to embodiments of the invention, the system and methods describe operations for displaying text, where the text does not include hints.
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7263228 |
Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern
A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image...
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7262774 |
Character image generating apparatus, character image generating method, display control apparatus, display control method and computer-readable recording medium recorded character image generation program or display control program thereon
The present invention relates to a character image generating apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of types of partial base line generating units, a vector font data storing unit, a...
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7224364 |
Optimal initial rasterization starting point
A frame buffer is divided into tiles of, for example, 32 by 32 pixels. Triangles (and portions thereof) that are within a given tile are rasterized one triangle at a time into the tile location....
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7188313 |
Context sensitive font generation
Programs, methods and apparatus for context sensitive font generation, especially handwriting fonts. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program product contains instructions to identify a...
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7184046 |
Method and apparatus for font storage reduction
The present invention is aimed at three specific data areas of font compression, each of whose size has become significant as other data areas have been compressed. The three data areas include...
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7176924 |
Computer method and apparatus for creating visible graphics by using a graph algebra
A computer method, apparatus and storage medium is provided for creating quantitative aesthetic graphics from data. The invention utilizes a graph algebra to construct graphs and visually or...
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7170528 |
Fast glyph rendering for vector based fonts
A method of rendering a glyph of a vector-based font comprises the steps of: generating a MIP map for a glyph, where the MIP map comprises at least one level having a plurality of pixels and where...
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7167178 |
Method of fast typing twin special characters
A method for inputting characters pairs in an electronic device having a user input device, a display for displaying characters input through the user input device, and a memory for storing...
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7161598 |
Method of rendering text on an output device
A method of rendering text on an output device using a pre-developed image of a custom font. An image file defines an image of a custom developed character set. The custom character set may be...
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7136067 |
Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants
The principles of the present invention relate to using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants. A computing system accesses a scaled font...
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7119807 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
The present invention concerns an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, in which an edge coordinates extraction circuit is used to extract edge coordinates information for an...
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7106332 |
Method for converting two-dimensional pen strokes to distance fields
A method generates a two-dimensional distance field from a pen stroke. A pen state is sampled during the pen stroke to generate an ordered list of pen states along the pen stroke. The pen state...
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7106330 |
Drawing comparison apparatus
After thinning an input image (drawing), a primitive is extracted. First, a rough primitive is extracted, and then the rough primitive becomes a primitive in a merge-split process according to a...
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7104890 |
Program, recording medium, game character rendering method, and game apparatus
A program which can dynamically and realistically express an impact which a game character rendered by motion data receives is provided. In bullet ball-related processing (S 114 ), determination is...
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7068276 |
Methods and systems for hinting fonts
In one embodiment, a font-hinting system is configured to select a first TrueType font that has been hinted with hints that define constraints between control points associated with individual...
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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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7034831 |
System and method for generating a low discrepancy curve in a region
A system and method for generating a curve in a region, e.g., a Low Discrepancy Curve. The method may generate an unbounded Low Discrepancy Point (LDP); apply one or more boundary conditions to the...
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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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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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6961684 |
Extensible framework for capturing feature information in a neutral format
Flexible framework within a CAD application program is described that serves as a neutral format for feature information relating to modeling data for a solid body. The framework is hierarchical in...
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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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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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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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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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6829748 |
Automatic kerning of text
The kerning of text modified in various ways is disclosed. The text can be modified by distortion or perturbation. In one way no unmodified text character pair kerning distance is stored. The...
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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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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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6798906 |
Image processing apparatus and method including line segment data extraction
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method that enables extraction of line segments of an arbitrary width from multi-valued images not uniform in background. To extract...
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6760029 |
Generating a glyph
A computer-implemented method of generating a glyph in which a plurality of design characteristics are extracted from a target font and a source glyph program is generated using the design...
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