Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1995-03-10
1998-09-08
Feild, Joseph H.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
395119, 395948, 355 22, 396324, G06F 1721
Patent
active
058057838
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for creating three-dimensional or depth image font text characters using graphic three-dimensional object creation techniques and graphics processors. The text characters can be represented as set descriptions of the characters. The text characters can also be represented as a three-dimensional geometric model including polygons constructed from vertices defined by three-dimensional coordinates. The representations are stored in a font storage and when a user specifies the text characters to be used in a depth image along with the font to be used for the text characters, the geometric representations of the characters are retrieved. If stored as a set, the set is converted into a geometric plot. Appropriate scaling and surface texturing operations are performed as designated by the user to create three-dimensional text character graphic objects. These text character graphic objects are transferred to a graphics processor to be manipulated as desired by the and used to produce an image that can be further processed.
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Ellson Richard N.
Ray Lawrence A.
Dugas Edward
Eastman Kodak Company
Feild Joseph H.
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