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7613341 |
Gap detection in a drawing
A technique for searching for a gap in a drawing is disclosed. The technique includes sweeping an evaluation line across at least a portion of the drawing, detecting on the evaluation line an...
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7612897 |
Method of managing the printing of characters and a printing device employing method
In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by...
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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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7598955 |
Hinted stem placement on high-resolution pixel grid
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for rendering a hinted character for display in grayscale on a grayscale output device in accordance with a hinted stem placement policy. In one...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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7425970 |
Controllable pixel border for a negative mode passive matrix display device
A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. In particular, the border can be several...
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7425960 |
Device dependent rendering
Method and apparatus, implementing and using techniques for processing a character for display on a raster output device having a resolution defined by a set of output pixel positions. A stem of...
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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...
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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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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...
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7379076 |
Using pixel homogeneity to improve the clarity of images
The present invention provides for improving image clarity through sub-pixel positioning of the image in a grid space based on pixel homogeneity scores. The pixel homogeneity scores indicating the...
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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...
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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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7304482 |
Characterization of the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection with continuous user refinement
A method for measuring and characterizing the nonlinearities of a display device by adaptive bisection using human perception for measurement. This method makes no assumptions about a display...
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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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7289123 |
Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility
Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and...
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7277732 |
Language input system for mobile devices
A language system facilitates entry of an input string into a mobile device using discrete keys on a keypad, such as a 10-key keypad. The numeric keys have associated letters of an alphabet. The...
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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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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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7239318 |
Method and computer software program product for processing characters based on outline font
A method and computer software product for processing outline fonts is described to skeletonize character fonts based on their outline data. The method may comprise: reading font data from an...
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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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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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7176933 |
Texture based method and system for the anti-aliasing of lines and characters
A method for generating anti-aliased lines and characters is disclosed. The method comprises generating a texture map based on a distribution and applying the texture map to a polygonal region. In...
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7148893 |
Automatic optimization of the position of stems of text characters
Automatically positioning of typographical features, such as vertical stems or horizontal segments of a character, on high contrast pixel sub-component boundaries as part of a rendering process...
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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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7129948 |
Methods and systems for hinting fonts
Methods and systems for automatically hinting fonts, particularly TrueType fonts, by transferring hints from one font to another are described. In one embodiment, a character or glyph (i.e. 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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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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7095411 |
Methods and systems for hinting fonts
In one embodiment, a system for providing a hinted TrueType font is configured to provide a source character from a fully hinted TrueType font from which hints are to be transferred. The source...
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7084873 |
System, method and computer program product for displaying and/or compressing digital data
The invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for compressing and/or displaying digital data. The system includes a storage medium for storing a plurality of instruction...
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7081903 |
Efficient movement of fragment stamp
A method and apparatus for visiting all productive stamp positions for a two-dimensional convex polygonal object. The object is visited with a stamp that has a stamp rectangle, and one or more...
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7071941 |
Method for calculating CJK emboxes in fonts
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for typesetting a text line of characters with different fonts or different sizes without the presence...
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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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7064759 |
Methods and apparatus for displaying a frame with contrasting text
An area within a frame is defined in which text or an image is to be generated. The text or image may also include an optional border surrounding and adjacent to the text or image. In accordance...
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7064757 |
Automatic synthesis of font tables for character layout
Data tables that are required for the proper processing of font glyphs are automatically synthesized if they do not form part of an original font definition. The synthesized tables are stored in an...
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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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