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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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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...
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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...
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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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7567732 |
Image resolution conversion
Methods to convert the resolution of digital images have been achieved. The methods invented support the decrease or the increase of the resolution of digital images, even enlargement in one...
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7552398 |
Systems and methods for semantically zooming information
Techniques are presented to semantically zoom information to fit within a bounded display space. A bounded display space optionally constrained by size or shape is determined. Semantically coherent...
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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...
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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...
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7515306 |
Document display method and apparatus
A document display method includes a determination step of determining, in a case that a display magnification of document data to be displayed is reduced, whether or not the display magnification...
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7511723 |
Method for requesting and viewing an attachment image on a portable electronic device
A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original...
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7508374 |
Electronic appliance having magnifying-glass display function, display controlling method, and display control program
In a portable telephone, a sensor constructed of, for example, a 3-axial acceleration sensor is built in the vicinity of a display unit which is provided on a main body of the portable telephone....
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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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7492376 |
Graphics resampling system and method for use thereof
A resampling circuit and method where input sample values for samples arranged along a row of a source image are received by a row resampling circuit. The row resampling circuit calculates row...
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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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7477263 |
Relayout of all or part of a graph in association with a change in state of a graph element
A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer program product for adjusting a graph. A modification to a first object in the graph is determined in which the first object has a position...
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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...
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7460140 |
Method and apparatus for displaying information and program and medium used therefor
A content processing routine divides a thumbnail-area according to data size and generates the same number of pixels values as the number of divided thumbnail-areas. The content processing routine...
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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...
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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...
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7417619 |
Determining a minimum size of presentation data
The system, method and program of the invention enables a presentation authoring tool, that is used to create presentation data for later projection, to determine a recommended font size for the...
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7411628 |
Method and system for scaling, filtering, scan conversion, panoramic scaling, YC adjustment, and color conversion in a display controller
Techniques for performing panoramic scaling are disclosed that reduce visible distortion in a panoramic image. Further, techniques for performing combined YC adjustment and color conversion are...
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7408590 |
Combined scaling, filtering, and scan conversion
Techniques for performing combined scaling, filtering, and/or scan conversion are disclosed that reduce that amount of line buffer space required in the overall design of a video processing system....
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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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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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7348983 |
Method and apparatus for text image stretching
A method and apparatus for horizontally expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character display image to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. Cell lines for each character are...
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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...
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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...
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7327367 |
Method and apparatus for font processing
In one application, a method according to an embodiment of the invention is used to enable a display of proportionally spaced characters using a fixed-font display controller.
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7327350 |
Input device for control of computer software designed to assist persons of reduced visual acuity
An input device designed to allow persons of reduced visual acuity to manipulate computer software providing magnification is disclosed. The device attaches to a personal computer via standard...
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7307647 |
Computer system, display control apparatus, display apparatus, display control method, recording medium, and program transmission apparatus
To allow for switching between a normal display and a zoom display by a simple operation, thereby providing both of a large amount of information by high resolution and high visibility of the...
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7307632 |
Font emulation
A method and apparatus for Font Emulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises stripping a first portion from a first font to emulate a second font upon request for such a second...
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7286720 |
Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external...
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7274833 |
Image processing device for scaling image frame
An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a control unit, a first storing zone, a frame buffer register, a first buffering zone and a first image processor. The...
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7242405 |
Shape and animation methods and systems using examples
Systems and methods for shape animation are described. In one aspect, a degree of freedom is linearly approximated. The degree of freedom is associated with a new form or motion for rendering based...
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7242404 |
Enlargement of font characters
A character within a font is enlarged to a desired size by first determining whether the font contains existing or predefined variants of the character having the desired size. If no appropriately...
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7236174 |
Adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simplify representative control data
The principles of the present invention relate to adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simply representative control data. A filtering module receives a set of control points...
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7212210 |
Method and apparatus for enlarging an output display on a display
A method and apparatus for enlarging an output display includes a message hook application capable of receiving a magnification event indicator, wherein the magnification event indicator includes a...
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7199797 |
Silhouette-oriented gray font generation
A method, computer graphical user interface tool, and computer-readable medium for generating a set of characters for display in gray scale are provided, wherein each character comprises one or...
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7196733 |
Apparatus for receiving broadcast data, method for displaying broadcast program, and computer program
A data broadcasting receiver apparatus includes a receiver for receiving image data of the image of an object and size information relating to the object, transmitted through data broadcasting, an...
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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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7148894 |
Image generation system and program
An object is to provide an image generation system and program which can realize a realistic, variable and natural representation of motion with less data. When the forearm ( 14 ) of an enemy...
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7117450 |
Method and apparatus for determining font attributes
A method to determine a font attribute includes: determining a first number and a second number; receiving input resulting from repositioning of a thumb of a slider to a position; and determining a...
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7113305 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method for processing document data having a plurality of objects different in attribution
Document data is constituted of a plurality of objects different in attribution, and layout information of the objects. Each object is associated with size information indicating a relation between...
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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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7095412 |
Methods and systems for hinting fonts
Methods and systems for hinting fonts are described. In one embodiment, a system for providing a hinted font is configured to define hints for a glyph of a first font. The hints are defined by one...
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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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7065263 |
Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external...
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7057617 |
Font memory and font data reading method
Font data for each resolution level is stored in a font memory ( 10 ). Character specifying addresses A 0 to A x and font resolution levels L 0 to L z are input to output the optimum font data...
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6996279 |
Compressed storage of data items
Storing of data items in a memory ( 31 ) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of...
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6995749 |
Auto font magnification mechanism
According to one embodiment, a handheld device is disclosed. The handheld device includes a housing, a display mounted within the housing, and a font magnification mechanism. The font magnification...
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