| 7031002 |
System and method for using character set matching to enhance print quality |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A system and method of using character set matching to identify the matching or best-matching font to print text of indeterminate language are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native... |
| 6954898 |
Method of standardizing character information in electronic documents |
| Oct-11-2005 |
Character information is standardized in electronic documents. By comparing a font used in an electronic document and a font within a target font set to be provided as a replacement font, a font comparison... |
| 6954897 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting font size in an electronic program guide display |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A method and apparatus for adjusting font size in an electronic program guide display are provided. A multiple channel broadcasting system generates an electronic program guide identifying channels and... |
| 6950992 |
External-character font creation system and program recording medium therefor |
| Sep-27-2005 |
An external-character font creation system is provided which includes: a display unit displaying an external-character code registration screen which is used when a master code is registered in an external-character... |
| 6944823 |
Outline forming apparatus and method using inputted weight information |
| Sep-13-2005 |
An outline forming apparatus stores first information indicating positions of first outline points for forming an outline of a pattern having a predetermined weight. The apparatus also stores second information,... |
| 6922812 |
System and method for presenting text upon the display of a server that employs and X window graphical interface |
| Jul-26-2005 |
A system and method are disclosed for a Java X font server, capable of displaying high quality text images on a remote display over a network based on the X Window graphical interface. This system and... |
| 6892348 |
Reformatting a document using fuzzy matching |
| May-10-2005 |
Reformatting a previously formatted document. A unique interface allows preview and selection of both a color set and a font set. A color set comprises a plurality of colors defining a color scheme. The... |
| 6826728 |
Collectively designating and installing font types and unicode based languages |
| Nov-30-2004 |
It is an object that in case of installing a font of a unified character code, desired characters corresponding to a country or a region can be installed. To accomplish the above object, a type of a font... |
| 6813747 |
System and method for output of multipart documents |
| Nov-2-2004 |
A system and method of identifying the matching or best-matching font to output text having a sequence of indeterminate languages are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools... |
| 6810504 |
System and method for implementing a user interface for use with Japanese characters |
| Oct-26-2004 |
A system and method for implementing a user interface for use with Japanese characters includes a font-encoder compiler on a host computer for encoding selected text strings and creating custom fonts,... |
| 6760887 |
System and method for highlighting of multifont documents |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A system and method of highlighting and manipulating text of different languages or fonts which are matched to a best-matching font are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools... |
| 6754875 |
Applying a computer-implemented test to determine whether to replace adjacent characters in a word with a ligature glyph |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A computer determines whether to use a ligature glyph in place of adjacent non-ligature characters by identifying adjacent characters in a word that can be represented by a ligature glyph, applying a test... |
| 6728935 |
Apparatus for setting attributes to character strings and graphic objects |
| Apr-27-2004 |
An apparatus for setting desired attributes to character strings and graphic objects in a document. The apparatus has a storage area, as part of a document file or as a separate history file, to store... |
| 6718519 |
System and method for outputting character sets in best available fonts |
| Apr-6-2004 |
A system and method of identifying the matching or best-matching font to output text of indeterminate language are presented. Today's operating systems do not provide the native tools and functions to... |
| 6687879 |
Font retrieval apparatus and method using a font link table |
| Feb-3-2004 |
A font retrieval apparatus includes a storage device storing a relationship between a plurality of fonts and a plurality of modes of a text. A mode selecting device selects at least one of the modes stored... |
| 6678410 |
Generating a glyph |
| Jan-13-2004 |
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 characteristics.... |
| 6675358 |
Font access, registration, display and printing method and a method for processing electronic documents having variant fonts |
| Jan-6-2004 |
To provide a method for font access, a method for font registration, a method for font display, a method for font printing and a method for handling an electronic document in which a variant font is included,... |
| 6675357 |
Method and apparatus for matching system and device fonts |
| Jan-6-2004 |
A method and apparatus in a distributed data processing system for controlling printing. An interface is presented, wherein the interface allows for association of a logical font with a number of system... |
| 6665842 |
Adaptive font sizes for network browsing |
| Dec-16-2003 |
When retrieving documents over a network, such as the Internet, the font size imposed by default or by a style sheet is sometimes not the right size for comfortable viewing by a user. A database of font... |
| 6552728 |
Method and system for providing substitute computer fonts |
| Apr-22-2003 |
A method and system for providing a substitute font that visually approximates a selected font that is unavailable in a computer system is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention,... |
| 6512531 |
Font navigation tool |
| Jan-28-2003 |
Methods and apparatus that enable a user to select a font from a collection of available fonts. The invention receives font data identifying each font in a collection of available fonts, identifies a location... |
| 6498608 |
Method and apparatus for variable weight outline emboldening of scalable outline fonts |
| Dec-24-2002 |
An emboldened font is simulated from a regular font by moving the outline that describes the font along a vector normal to the direction of the outline a predetermined distance. A new emboldened location... |
| 6489936 |
Selection of image processing operation using network based acquisition of user inputs |
| Dec-3-2002 |
A technique for selecting a display related image processing operation by acquiring user preferences over a network is described. A set of related images is transmitted from a local processing system to... |
| 6456385 |
System for adding soft fonts to a printer data stream |
| Sep-24-2002 |
A system and corresponding method for use when an application prints a document and a corresponding envelope is printed by an independent process, unknown to the application, using soft fonts (dynamic... |
| 6446133 |
Multi-language domain name service |
| Sep-3-2002 |
A multilingual Domain Name System allows users to use Domain Names in non-Unicode or ASCII encodings. An international DNS server (or iDNS server) receives multilingual DNS requests and converts them to... |
| 6421055 |
Method and apparatus for system enhancement to device backup font support |
| Jul-16-2002 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus in a data processing system for printing characters. Data received include glyphs for output on an output device, wherein the glyphs are to be output... |
| 6377966 |
Graphical interface to select characters representing phonetic articulation and no articulation groups |
| Apr-23-2002 |
A system and method for implementing a user interface for use with Japanese characters includes a font-encoder compiler on a host computer for encoding selected text strings and creating custom fonts,... |
| 6330577 |
Apparatus and method for displaying font information by using preview window |
| Dec-11-2001 |
An apparatus and method for displaying font information by using a preview window, when the user makes up a document, the sample of the desirable font is promptly shown to the user through the preview... |
| 6323865 |
Automatic font management within an operating system environment |
| Nov-27-2001 |
A system and methods automatically provide access and management of installed and noninstalled fonts in a computer system. Installed fonts are resident in computer memory, whereas the noninstalled fonts... |
| 6314469 |
Multi-language domain name service |
| Nov-6-2001 |
A multilingual Domain Name System allows users to use Domain Names in non-Unicode or ASCII encodings. An international DNS server (or iDNS server) receives multilingual DNS requests and converts them to... |
| 6243704 |
Business nonstandard character processing apparatus and system, and computer readable storage medium |
| Jun-5-2001 |
A business nonstandard character processing apparatus includes a plurality of work processing parts for carrying out processes using nonstandard character data registered in a system nonstandard character... |
| 6144389 |
Intelligent terminal device having capability of displaying transmitted data |
| Nov-7-2000 |
An intelligent terminal device capable of displaying message information to be transmitted/received by using a font having a predetermined size depending upon the amount of the information and of changing... |
| 6131103 |
Method for changing font size of widget in base station manager of cellular telephone system |
| Oct-10-2000 |
A base station manager for use in a cellular telephone system includes fonts having different sizes. The base station manager detects a change in a size of a widget, measures the size of the size-changed... |
| 6073148 |
Displaying electronic documents with substitute fonts |
| Jun-6-2000 |
Methods and apparatus for displaying an electronic document on a display device coupled to a computer. The document includes text specified to be drawn using a desired font that is not on the computer.... |
| 6073147 |
System for distributing font resources over a computer network |
| Jun-6-2000 |
A network system includes a font resource server that is accessible to all devices that communicate via the network. The font server contains the necessary information pertaining to the various types of... |
| 6065008 |
System and method for secure font subset distribution |
| May-16-2000 |
This invention concerns a system and method for securely distributing subsetted fonts from a distributor to a client. The system includes a signing module to construct an authentication tree having leaves... |
| 6038575 |
Method of sharing glyphs between computers having graphical user interfaces |
| Mar-14-2000 |
A method of sharing glyphs between a source computer and a destination computer having graphical user interfaces includes the step of receiving a first request to display a specified glyph at a first position... |
| 5990907 |
Automatic font management within an operating system environment |
| Nov-23-1999 |
A system and methods automatically provide access and management of installed and noninstalled fonts in a computer system. Installed fonts are resident in computer memory, whereas the noninstalled fonts... |
| 5890184 |
External character management apparatus |
| Mar-30-1999 |
An external character management apparatus is provided for collectively managing external characters in a distributed system which is constituted by multiple platforms using different code systems. A desired... |
| 5877776 |
Method and system for supporting multiple font formats by a font scaler sub-system |
| Mar-2-1999 |
A method and system for allowing scalers to support multiple font formats in a graphics system that processes data having a specified font format. The method and system includes actively registering each... |
| 5859648 |
Method and system for providing substitute computer fonts |
| Jan-12-1999 |
A method and system for providing a substitute font that visually approximates a selected font that is unavailable in a computer system is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention,... |
| 5802539 |
Method and apparatus for managing text objects for providing text to be interpreted across computer operating systems using different human languages |
| Sep-1-1998 |
Text objects having a primary data portion in which is stored text characters and associated encoding information, and an annotation portion in which is stored attribute information such as style and language... |
| 5802538 |
System for enhanced utility of custom characters including dividing the custom characters into custom character groups and adapting the custom character groups to each other |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A system for enhanced utility of custom characters in a distributed data processing system allows document data to be distributed from a source system fully capable of handling many custom character codes... |
| 5802257 |
Information processing apparatus, method and memory medium that control a bold process in accordance with the setting of a facsimile mode |
| Sep-1-1998 |
An information processing apparatus is constructed by a judging unit for judging a set mode and a control unit for performing a bold process to an object in a document and outputting the document to another... |
| 5793381 |
Unicode converter |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A character code conversion system that provides round trip fidelity, while ensuring that the resulting character codes are interchangeable with other platforms. The code conversion system is able to map... |
| 5790854 |
Efficient stack utilization for compiling and executing nested if-else constructs in a vector data processing system |
| Aug-4-1998 |
A computer-implemented method is provided for compiling software code that performs nested conditional constructs in vector data processors (10). A vector bit stack (128) to record which processing elements... |
| 5784071 |
Context-based code convertor |
| Jul-21-1998 |
A code conversion system that takes context into consideration when converting characters from a source character encoding to a target character encoding. The code conversion system is able to map a single... |
| 5784069 |
Bidirectional code converter |
| Jul-21-1998 |
A code conversion system that takes direction into consideration when converting characters from a source character encoding to a target character encoding is disclosed. The code conversion system is able... |
| 5742744 |
Output apparatus and method for establishing a using right for plural data processing units |
| Apr-21-1998 |
An output apparatus and method controls a combination of a plurality of font data stores and a plurality of conversion methods for converting font data to dot pattern data in accordance with a condition... |
| 5740462 |
Output apparatus permitting font selection based on resolutions |
| Apr-14-1998 |
An output apparatus includes a storage device for storing font information; a unit for generating a predetermined pattern in accordance with the font information stored in the storage device; a unit for... |
