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5675718 Method and apparatus for dynamic font availability  
Unused space in a storage medium such as a read only memory is used to store additional fonts in an apparatus, thereby increasing the total number of fonts stored in the apparatus. The number of...
5673371 Method of modifying the fatness of characters to be output on a raster output device  
Font data which defines the shape of each character as an outline consisting of straight and curved line segments is transformed into bitmap representations of the individual characters such that...
5671246 Method and apparatus for adaptive adjustment of cache allocation for storage of font data  
A computer downloads rasterized font characters to a connected printer and employs a method which enables a rendering of large character sets by the printer, even though the printer is not designed...
5668933 Image transformation apparatus for producing an image collapsing effect  
In an image transformation apparatus for performing image transformation process to a video signal. A sequential read address is transformed based on the function of which a first differential...
5668935 Character output device  
A character output device comprises a storage section for storing typeface property data consisting of quantitative and qualitative information of the specific parts of specific characters that are...
5668934 Interface to sophisticated printers  
A method is disclosed that enables changing of print commands for traditional line printers to character highlighting capabilities offered by modern non-impact type printers. The disclosed method...
5666478 Method and apparatus for processing characters based on previously- used scalable font data  
Character processing uses character pattern information generated from a previously-used scalable font when outputting image information for subsequent characters. Attribute information for the...
5664070 Outputting method and apparatus  
An outputting apparatus comprises: a changing circuit to change a bit map font in accordance with a resolution of an outputting mechanism in the case where a resolution of the bit map font to be...
5649024 Method for color highlighting of black and white fonts  
Printing reproductions of a black and white only original document on a digital printer capable of color printing, with selected black and white text portions of the original being printed in a...
5647056 Method and apparatus for managing access to a networked peripheral  
Method and apparatus for interfacing a peripheral to a local area network with an interactive network board connected to the peripheral via a bi-directional peripheral interface and connectable to...
5644684 High-efficiency compression suitable for use in character generation  
There is disclosed an output apparatus comprising a storage having a submatrix obtained by means of dividing a character set where one character being formed of bit patterns of M rows by N columns...
5638495 Printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus includes a printer for performing printing on the basis of position information and size information, and a size changing unit for changing the size of a space on the basis of...
5633991 Method and device for generating a character line of uniform width through character size conversion  
A method and device for generating a character line of uniform width throughout character size conversion includes predetermining an offset value corresponding to a target line width; adjusting a...
5630031 High-speed dot matrix output apparatus  
An output apparatus having a dot matrix memory and a non-dot-matrix memory, and a method applicable to such an apparatus, in which the dot matrix memory stores an externally entered download font...
5630028 Method of representing graphic data using text  
A method of printing graphic data on a print system having associated data memory, at least one processor and a printer mechanism, using a plurality of fonts comprised of n predefined text...
5623584 Output method and apparatus  
An output apparatus for outputting a character or the like by using an outline font comprises: an outline information memory to store outline information which expresses a character by points on...
5617130 Image smoothing method and apparatus  
An image smoothing apparatus which forms dot images on a matrix array and smooths images of curvatures or diagonals included in the dot images. The apparatus includes a shifting unit which shifts a...
5615310 Circuit for resolution matching  
A circuit for matching resolutions of a data transmitted from a host computer and an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including engine unit for printing the data on paper and...
5613017 Apparatus for processing image data among media having different image output sizes  
From input document data there are detected the features of the document, such as the top, bottom, left and right margins, the character space, the line space, the word space, the column space, the...
5606649 Method of encoding a document with text characters, and method of sending a document with text characters from a transmitting computer system to a receiving computer system  
A method of encoding a document with text characters includes the steps of providing a font memory with a first memory region for storing a plurality of basic unit information and a second memory...
5592593 Printing in data processing systems  
Fonts for use in printing documents are dynamically generated as they are required for printing. Preferably only those characters from the font which have been used in the document are dynamically...
5592594 Method and apparatus for allocating cache memory space for font data  
Font character data is maintained in a cache memory in bit map form. Each character is identified a unique identifier (ID) value. The printer searches the cache memory only by ID value to determine...
5590247 Character string outputting method and apparatus capable of varying sizes of characters  
In a character string outputting apparatus, a character frame is produced by substituting a numeral sequence indicative of an arranging position of each character contained in a desirable character...
5586226 Control method and device for a unicolor printer  
A printer control apparatus includes a color-assigned font determining device for determining whether or not a color-assigned font is included in a print font pattern to be downloaded in a...
5586225 Output apparatus and method for outputting a character using a run-length compressed font  
Data is converted by a prediction function. The converted data is run length compressed and the resultant compressed font data is stored into an ROM. When outputting, the compressive data is sent...
5579448 Printing apparatus for printing of quarter em-size  
According to a printing apparatus of the invention, for a printing operation of print data of special size which is transmitted from a host computer, when any quarter em-size letter is contained in...
5579449 Method for downloading and printing bitmapped graphics  
The invention is a method whereby soft font data and graphic images which are stored on a host computer in a variety of formats are converted to a bitmap graphics format comprised of a group of...
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...
5572631 Common font rasterizer available to multiple printer personalities  
A printer that allows a plurality of personalities access to a common rasterizer. The printer is constructed of an operating system, a scaleable font and a personality interface. The scaleable font...
5570459 Delivering and fetching font information  
An output device is enabled to obtain character descriptions for use in raster scanning characters which belong to a common character font. Character descriptions are stored in an external device...
5566276 Character modifying method  
A character compressing method is disclosed wherein a character is separately grouped at a predetermined pitch in the horizontal direction (row direction) or vertical direction (column direction),...
5564117 Computer system including a page printer controller including a single chip supercalar microprocessor with graphical functional units  
A VLSIC page printer controller includes an instruction processor which responds to a host computer and a printer video processor for accessing data from memory under the control of the instruction...
5559934 Label printing apparatus and wordprocessor  
A label printing apparatus includes a liquid crystal display unit for displaying an input character string and a message corresponding to each operation stage, a printing unit for printing a...
5557708 Method and apparatus for outputting a binary bit data message from bytes representing strings of contiguous bits of equal value  
A method and apparatus for transmitting print data signals serially to a printing device is disclosed. Print data for printing dots selectively line by line is stored as a plurality of bytes in...
5555348 Print device for printing code data in association with code numbers  
By selecting a desired code table on an operation panel and depressing a print key, a series of code numbers each of which is divided into a first-digit code and a second-digit code and characters...
5550958 Printer with extension memory capacity that provides instructions regarding memory installation  
According to this printer, effective extension conditions for extending extension memories to plural memory-installing slots are preliminarily stored in a ROM table. The presence or absence of the...
5548701 Character processing method and apparatus  
The invention relates to a character processing method and apparatus having a function to convert data of a vector form into data of a dot form. The apparatus converts data of vector form into data...
5542050 Font information transfer system  
A font information transfer system in a network system including a network, a workstation, and a printer connected to the workstation through the network. In the font information transfer system,...
5540507 Tape printing apparatus  
When a character key is operated, the apparatus reads display character size data for the inputted character, which corresponds to a selected print character size, in S40. Display dot pattern data...
5533174 Network font server  
A font server communicates with workstations and printers, i.e., clients, on a network and provides them with font-specific information that allow them to select a licensed font and to specify how...
5526469 System for printing image data in a versatile print server  
A system for operatively connecting a source of a quantity of digital data having an image data format associated therewith, and an output device to create a print of the original image based on...
5524182 System and method for compressing and decompressing fonts based upon font stroke regularities  
A method for compressing a typographic font and recovering the original font from the compressed font, first extracts the outline of each glyph in the font in turn, and analyzes the outline to find...
5522028 Output apparatus  
An output apparatus for receiving code data from a data source of a host computer and developing it into pattern data and outputting the data. The apparatus includes a pattern generator to generate...
5517601 High speed apparatus and method for rasterization of font glyphs  
An apparatus derives data to enable a fill action during operation of a print device along a scan line. The apparatus includes a processor which determines, for each of a sequence of contours of a...
5513012 Image forming apparatus having density correction for image formation  
An image forming apparatus for adjusting image density includes an input device for inputting a plurality of image type information and a discriminating device for discriminating the image type...
5506941 Pattern generation method and pattern generation apparatus  
In a pattern generation method, corresponding binary bit map data is generated based on a desired one of vector font data, an area of the binary bit map data on a memory is divided to judge a...
5506942 Apparatus of outputting a train of characters  
A train of characters as the output target is designated by a key operation section and an area lying between two lines is designed as a character train layout range. A character frame generator...
5506940 Font resolution method for a data processing system to a convert a first font definition to a second font definition  
An improved font resolution method is disclosed for a data processing system, which enables the translation of an originally defined font for a document, into available fonts in a local data...
5504669 Information processing device and accessory control device  
A system has an electronic device, such as a printer, and an accessory control device, such as a cartridge, that couples physically and electrically to the electronic device. The electronic device...
5500922 Printer apparatus for enlarging or reducing the size of characters  
A printer apparatus comprises: a holding circuit to hold a pattern of a character, a figure, or the like in a form such that it can be enlarged or reduced into an arbitrary size; a converter to...
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