| 7039862 |
Text spacing adjustment |
| May-2-2006 |
Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for adjusting spacing between characters in a line of text. A plurality of character classes are specified based... |
| 7028258 |
Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a document |
| Apr-11-2006 |
Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of... |
| 7028256 |
Adding white space to a document generating adjusted page sizing |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method, a computer system and a computer-readable medium having instructions for a processor stored thereon are provided for growing a page on a display. Input indicating a first position or designation... |
| 7009723 |
Method and apparatus for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles |
| Mar-7-2006 |
A method is provided for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles in order to reduce wasted space when printing the orders in multiple column's. A plurality of orders for at least one printed... |
| 6948119 |
Automated paragraph layout |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A technique for automated paragraph layout identifies possible lines within a paragraph in a top-down pass through the paragraph, selects a combination of the possible lines in a bottom-up pass through... |
| 6940528 |
Display-service providing system and image display apparatus |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention provides a display-service providing system in which an image display apparatus, such as a projector, simultaneously displays a plurality of image data on a display section and the display... |
| 6928611 |
Setting text composition spacing amount |
| Aug-9-2005 |
Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount in a DTP system. An inter-character class spacing amount setting table for use in line composition groups similar characters, forms a... |
| 6925613 |
Strobe reading technology and device |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A method and device for displaying electronic text on a screen is disclosed, comprising presenting text as a single word display of a particular duration plus a non-text gap, and continuing this single... |
| 6915484 |
Text reflow in a structured document |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A method and computer program product for reflowing a PDL page without using the original application used to create the PDL page. The method and computer program product include receive a page represented... |
| 6816268 |
Printed matter of text data and method and apparatus for printing the same |
| Nov-9-2004 |
A printed matter comprising: a multiplicity of character strings such as words or sentences being printed on a single printing plane according to a ranking of the character strings determined based on... |
| 6807676 |
Methods of formatting data to maximize the readability and the amount of song identification information displayed on a limited number of lines |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A method of formatting data to maximize the readability of song identification (ID) information displayed on a monitor screen and a method of formatting data to maximize the amount of song ID information... |
| 6708177 |
Method of formatting values in a fixed number of spaces using the java programming language |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A computer implemented method of and apparatus for printing values in a fixed number of column spaces using Java is described. A value desired to be formatted to a predetermined length string and an indexed... |
| 6678070 |
System for producing photo layouts to match existing mattes using distance information in only one axis |
| Jan-13-2004 |
The present invention is a system that coordinates the printing of a page of photos that match the layout of a pre-existing matte. The matte layout can be created from a physical matte. When creating an... |
| 6654009 |
Method and apparatus for arranging entities in a two-dimensional lattice |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A method for arranging entities in a two-dimensional lattice including the steps of determining all applicable two-dimensional lattice forms from a predetermined group of lattice forms for a predetermined... |
| 6620206 |
White space equalization around features placed on a page |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A method for the equalization of white space around multiple placements of photographs or other placement items with optional, associated captions on a medium such as a page or a computer screen. The method... |
| 6547830 |
Methods and apparatuses for display and traversing of links in page character array |
| Apr-15-2003 |
A device, such as a cellular telephone, having a software program for maximizing the amount of text displayed is provided. The software program converts a markup language page, such as a hypertext markup... |
| 6373591 |
System for producing photo layouts to match existing mattes |
| Apr-16-2002 |
The present invention is a system that coordinates the printing of a page of photos that match the layout of a pre-existing matte. The matte layout can be created from a physical matte. When creating an... |
| 6252607 |
Method and system for character spacing in graphics terminal emulation |
| Jun-26-2001 |
A method and system are provided for positioning characters within an arbitrarily sized graphics window in order to maximize the distribution of unused space. The method and system are particularly adapted... |
| 6208744 |
Document image processor and method for setting a document format conforming to a document image |
| Mar-27-2001 |
A document image processor reads data on the image of an original document and automatically sets a format for the document in a document processor such as a word processor or personal computer. First,... |
| 6115024 |
Image display device |
| Sep-5-2000 |
There is provided an image display device which is capable of clearly displaying the use of each fixed format for forming an image and the image formed according to the fixed format on a small-sized display... |
| 6038567 |
Method and system for propagating object properties in a desktop publishing program |
| Mar-14-2000 |
A desktop publishing software program configured to propagate object content-defining and format-defining object properties so that user-defined object properties automatically propagate to other objects... |
| 5937420 |
Pointsize-variable character spacing |
| Aug-10-1999 |
A computer-implemented method for spacing characters rendered from a digital font at an output pointsize. The font has first spacing metrics for a small pointsize and for a different large pointsize. The... |
| 5873110 |
Character information processing device equipped with a layout display function |
| Feb-16-1999 |
Tape printing device 1 is provided with the second and third screen modes M1 and M2, in which the input document and its layout can be simultaneously displayed on the same screen. These modes can be switched... |
| 5835921 |
Data processing apparatus for creating and storing a text file from input data |
| Nov-10-1998 |
A data processing apparatus for inputting character data and for creating and storing a text file includes an input unit for inputting characters, a discriminating unit for discriminating an attribute... |
| 5768490 |
Method for producing visually evenly spaced typographic characters |
| Jun-16-1998 |
Methods are proposed for visually evenly spacing of two successive characters taking into account outline shape modifications induced by character grid-fitting. Visually even spacing of characters is obtained... |
| 5754685 |
Image processing apparatus with blank character and line space recognition capabilities |
| May-19-1998 |
An image processing apparatus comprises: a blank discriminating circuit to discriminate a blank from image information; a line discriminating circuit to discriminate line information from information of... |
| 5740456 |
Methods and system for controlling intercharacter spacing as font size and resolution of output device vary |
| Apr-14-1998 |
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 characters... |
| 5444833 |
Graphic editing apparatus with grid size selection |
| Aug-22-1995 |
In a graphic editor, a graphic pattern is entered by a pointer with the aid of grid points. The size of the grid points is varied over the entire display image or over a portion of the display image according... |
| 5416898 |
Apparatus and method for generating textual lines layouts |
| May-16-1995 |
A computer system for rendering text is provided. A keyboard is used to enter characters into the computer system. A character code corresponding to each entered character is generated. A particular font... |
| 5299303 |
Document processing apparatus and method for arranging each line of item information in response to instructing the arranging of the item information stored in a memory |
| Mar-29-1994 |
A document processing apparatus and method includes a designating device, a memory, an instruction device, an arranger, a margin setter, and an expander. The designating device designates the partition... |
| 5293474 |
System for raster imaging with automatic centering and image compression |
| Mar-8-1994 |
The system provides for vertical or horizontal centering, or both, without the use of a memory frame buffer, of raster image data whose start time and duration cannot be controlled. The centering is accomplished... |
| 5224039 |
Method of enabling the translation of machine readable information |
| Jun-29-1993 |
Disclosed is a method of enabling the translation of machine readable information from a first national language to a second national language. The method includes the steps of forming a table of rules... |
| 5068809 |
Formatting system |
| Nov-26-1991 |
Desktop publishing system for preparing and managing documents in accordance with a model defined by graphic properties by using input document information and commands. This model is specified by a number... |
| 5040129 |
Data processor for generating character image |
| Aug-13-1991 |
A data processor for generating character images in a bit map memory according to character code data obtained from an external host computer. The data processor transforms the orthogonal positional data... |
| 4841478 |
Document processor |
| Jun-20-1989 |
A document processor comprising a memory for storing a document input by a keyboard and a display for displaying the document in the memory and a sign indicative of the position of a character. The document... |
| 4799172 |
Apparatus and method for automatic layout of sign text |
| Jan-17-1989 |
An apparatus and method for laying out a sign containing a plurality of lines of text performs and comprises the steps of entering into a computer information defining the sign text and the heights of... |
| 4689764 |
Method and apparatus for formatting a line of text containing a complex character prior to text justification |
| Aug-25-1987 |
A word or text processing system has a bidirectional printer with formatting capability. A line of text is printed in one direction, and the printer is backspaced to form complex characters by adding overstrikes,... |
| 4604653 |
Document filing system |
| Aug-5-1986 |
Items of identification data corresponding to the groups of items of image information which are stored in an optical disk are stored in a floppy disk. Before any group of items of image information is... |
| 4573138 |
Justifying with printer level data stream which accommodates footers and headers |
| Feb-25-1986 |
In order to avoid the problem of the last line of the body text not being justified when it is not the end of a paragraph but is followed by a footer, a converter/processor (13) is provided to modify the... |
| 4517578 |
Electronic apparatus with printer |
| May-14-1985 |
An electronic apparatus includes a printer for graph printing, in which the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the printed graph can be modified by a device for modifying the scales of the graph. |
| 4467525 |
Automated sign generator |
| Aug-28-1984 |
An automated sign generator produces large scale text on sheet material by means of a cutting tool which is guided relative to the material in accordance with preprogrammed data. The sheet material is... |
| 4437167 |
Multiple half-line spacing on a miniature page |
| Mar-13-1984 |
A technique for displaying a representation of a full page on less than an entire CRT screen in a word processing system. The full page representation uses character indicators to enable the word processing... |
| 4054948 |
Proportional spacing and electronic typographic apparatus |
| Oct-18-1977 |
An electronic typographic apparatus includes a multiline display, the top of the display being justified and the lower line constituting a data entry line. Coded typographic data is stored in a character... |
| 3949377 |
Data storage and processing apparatus including processing of spacer characters |
| Apr-6-1976 |
Data storage and processing apparatus for storing and processing data for use by a video display monitor. The data storage and processing apparatus includes a random access memory having a general storage... |
| 3939458 |
Method for the tabulator-like illustration of symbols |
| Feb-17-1976 |
A method and apparatus for effecting the display of symbols, in tabulated form, on the screen of a data-video device, utilizing a data source, an image repetition store and a symbol generator, in which... |
