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6151032 Stroke-based glyph-outline font generation in low/high resolution space  
A method, computer system and computer-readable medium for generating an outline font of Asian language characters. The Asian language characters are defined by basic strokes. The basic strokes are...
6134567 High resolution alphanumeric character generation  
A printer device driver system includes a relatively simplistic kernel mode device driver, KM - - DRIVER. KM - - DRIVER supplies limited functionality for basic Device Driver Interface, DDI,...
6126342 Output device capable of high quality output of characters over a large range of sizes  
An output device has storage means for storing a compressed font, representing characters by compressed data corresponding to dot patterns, a first generation unit for generating dot patterns based...
6115498 Character image generating apparatus and method therefor  
A character generating apparatus for generating a character image representing a character and a method therefor, which are capable of preventing a flicker phenomenon, which occurs in the...
6016155 Character processing apparatus, character processing method, and memory  
It is an object of the invention to reduce an amount of data which is supplied to a character outputting process and to execute the character outputting process at a high speed. On the basis of...
5982387 Hint assignment method and font file construction method  
A method of assigning hints for outline-font creation includes a first step of dividing elements having similar outlines into classes, a second step of learning hint assignment by storing hint...
5977949 Character forming apparatus  
A character forming apparatus includes (1) a character data storage unit for storing character data of each character pattern, the character data including a character code and the like, (2) a...
5966473 Method and apparatus for recognizing a quadrilateral object contained in an input bitmap image  
Described is an image processing system which is operative to automatically determine a quadrilateral object such as a character frame, page mark, or position correction mark only with a mouse...
5959635 Character pattern generator  
A character pattern generator includes a ROM for storing font data and attribute information of each point of each stroke forming the font data, and a CPU for recognizing a portion to be...
5936637 Image processing system having outline font data input  
An image processing system has bit map figure data of a plurality of sizes and edits a document on the basis of this data. This system comprises an input device to input a figure by a polygon...
5930408 Character pattern generation  
A character processing apparatus for recognizing coordinate information expressing a character, an exterior outline, an interior outline, a horizontal line and a vertical line; classifying the...
5909221 Gray scaled data generating device which balances width and shade of strokes by repositioning their center line to a predetermined distance from pixel border  
A gray scaled data generation device which generates characters and figures of a size which is a fixed number of pixels as gray scaled data, based on outline data which includes outline information...
5867172 Thickened and thinned character generating device including elements for removing undesirably formed outline portions  
A character generating device which is capable of creating a clear thickened or thinned (wider or narrower) character by eliminating an improper portion of an outline of a character. According to a...
5859647 Data processing apparatus and method and output device  
It is an object to convert to outline font data that is closer to an actual character outline. A check is made to see if the data read out from a memory is which one of straight line data and curve...
5857067 Intelligent font rendering co-processor  
A method and apparatus convert font outlines to rasterized bitmaps. The method accesses stored outline data representing an object in a first coordinate space and transforms the outline data to...
5852448 Stroke-based font generation independent of resolution  
A method and apparatus for producing a stroked-based font defined by a stroke representation displayable on high or low-resolution output device. The stroke representation includes defining a basic...
5825999 Minimum character region determining apparatus and method, character string generating apparatus for generating a character string according to the minimum character region determining method  
A squared character region for a letter is partitioned into three partitive regions arranged in a longitudinal direction to partition the letter. Thereafter, a right fit position of a portion of...
5812113 Picture forming device  
There is provided a picture-forming device which is capable of easily drawing an arrow having a desired shape on a display screen of a display device, such as a CRT. The picture-forming device is...
5796409 Method for producing contrast-controlled grayscale characters  
The invention teaches grayscale specific character outline modification techniques for synthesizing contrast controlled grayscale pixmap characters of improved appearance at any resolution and...
5797139 Method, memory and apparatus for designating a file's type by building unique icon borders  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system to display files using a type identifiers and parent identifiers. The method includes the first computer-implemented step of...
5784301 Method and apparatus for producing paper fiber structure data, and method and apparatus for drawing bled figure  
Paper fiber structure data simulating the paper fiber structure required for drawing a bled figure, and a method and apparatus for drawing, based upon the paper fiber structure data, a bled figure...
5777627 Outline character drawing apparatus with stem width adjustment according to user specified bit-map development rules  
An outline character drawing apparatus comprising a font dictionary, a path forming unit, a rule storage unit and a bit map developing unit. The font dictionary stores a plurality of outline data...
5754187 Method for data compression of digital data to produce a scaleable font database  
A method for construction of a scaleable font database comprised of data stored in a compact form for retrieval in one of several usable forms common in digital typography. The method comprises the...
5740456 Methods and system for controlling intercharacter spacing as font size and resolution of output device vary  
A method of controlling the intercharacter spacing between adjacent characters in automatic typography systems. The method ensures that the autohinter creates even spacing between two adjacent...
5734388 Method and apparatus for data compression of digital data to produce a scaleable font database  
A method and apparatus for storing scaleable font data in a compact form and retrieving it in one of several usable forms common in digital typography. The retrieval process can be influenced by...
5724497 Programmable graphics processor having pixel to character conversion hardware for use in a video game system or the like  
057244972 A fully programmable, graphics microprocessor is embodied in a removable external memory unit for connection with a host information processing system. In an exemplary embodiment, a video...
5714987 Method of equally adjusting line widths of outline font  
An apparatus for adjusting a line width of an outline font includes an original outline data storing device for storing attribute data in advance. The attribute data indicates whether a data point,...
5664081 Method for forming a symmetrical image  
A symmetrical image is generated from an entire object image having an approximately symmetrical shape. The object image has a plurality of control points. The object image may be a polygon having...
5642476 Computer generated variable line width of a vector graphic  
In a computer system, a method and an apparatus for varying contour widths of a vector graphic. The method including the steps of reading vector shape data having a contour, control points, a bulge...
5600772 Bit map character convertor using chain-codes for the character filling process  
A data converting apparatus and process for converting outline representations of a character into its bit mapped form using two buffers one being for the bit mapped form of the character symbol...
5598520 Methods and apparatus for hinting a font for controlling stem width as font size and resolution of output device vary  
A method of hinting a font to provide improved stem width and intercharacter spacing control in automatic typography systems. The method is adapted to make the transition smoothly and gradually...
5585820 Apparatus for and method of generating characters  
A shade pattern can be added characters or character strings by a simple arrangement. Count values of a vertical direction counter (2) and a horizontal direction counter (3) are supplied to an...
5577170 Generation of typefaces on high resolution output devices  
A technique is specified for the output of fonts on high resolution output devices, such as photosetters in particular. A processor unit optically scales a digitally stored font, by selecting a...
5519412 Pattern processing method  
A pattern processing apparatus comprises: a first memory which has character pattern data as coordinate array points and stores data indicating whether the coordinate points are the points...
5453938 Compression generation method for font data used in printers  
A font pattern to be stored is created by sequentially forming exclusive logical sums neighboring first bit patterns A1-A20 to form a plurality of second neighboring bit patterns B1-B20;...
5444460 Apparatus for displaying outlined characters in a video display system  
A circuit for reducing the number of times a character read-only memory (ROM) in a video display must be accessed in order to display outlined characters. For each pixel on a scan line in a...
5434959 System and method of generating variable width lines within a graphics system  
A video graphics system and method for creating variable width lines such that the lines may be easily edited. As a line image is created, a center point of that image along its length is...
5428728 Method and apparatus for outline font character generation in dot matrix devices  
Method and apparatus for outline font character generation in dot matrix devices including a point transform engine, a parametric equation generator, an adaptive forward differencing engine, a...
5426745 Apparatus including a pair of neural networks having disparate functions cooperating to perform instruction recognition  
There is provided a customized personal terminal device capable of operating in response to input data peculiar to the operator, comprising a speech recognition unit for recognizing inputted...
5414448 Character/pattern generator and information processing system  
An information processing system having a character/pattern generator, in which outline information of a character/pattern expressed in a vector form is subjected to any of at least two sorts of...
5325479 Method and apparatus for moving control points in displaying digital typeface on raster output devices  
A method for manipulating the control points of a symbol image represented by an outline font to improve the appearance of the font on raster output devices which are under control of a computer....
5319358 Method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of digital typefaces  
A method and apparatus for minimizing the visual degradation of a typeface wherein the need for the manual input of skilled technicians is eliminated and the important visual components of each...
5317679 Digital image processor including correction for undesirable edge emphasis in outline-demarcated fonts  
A digital image processor generates a digital signal responsive to an image signal representing a predetermined font demarcated by an outline, by which digital signal a digital image corresponding...
5309554 Apparatus for converting character outline data into dot data, having means for moving outline segments  
An apparatus having a dot data preparing device for converting original outline data representative of an outline of a character into dot data indicative of image dots to be formed at picture...
5309521 Method and apparatus for generating a character curve by dividing and developing a bezier curve  
A control computer, an error calculator, a Bezier curve divider and an output device are provided for generating a character curve. Coordinates of end points and control points of a Bezier curve...
5305433 Method and system for generating characters with compact character data  
A character generator and method which requires reduced storage memory space for a character memory by virtue of generating bit fill patterns that fill character borders. The borders are, in turn,...
5301348 Dynamic progress marking icon  
A dynamic progress marker icon is disclosed that dynamically changes to mark the progress of a task. In this manner, the user is kept informed of the status of a task being performed without...
5289169 Composite underlining functions for text processors  
Disclosed are text processing methods and text processing apparatus in an imaging system which images text characters and associated text functions, and specifically images text underline...
5289170 Method of and apparatus for forming outline character  
A method of and an apparatus for forming an outline character by making a character, numeral, mark, or the like black at the periphery thereof and white at the inner portions thereof. When the...
5280577 Character generation using graphical primitives  
A system and method stores fonts and generates characters. Instead of the fonts containing bit maps, the storage area (116) for each character contains the addresses (GPCR Addresses) of...
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