Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Character generating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-03
2007-07-03
Tung, Kee M. (Department: 2628)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Character generating
C345S469100, C345S470000, C345S471000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10007991
ABSTRACT:
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 outline font dictionary that stores the outline data of an outline font, preparing element structures and constructing a graphic path; determining whether or not the element structures constitute another graphic path; determining whether or not, within the graphic path, there is another graphic path that is completely contained and has the same cyclic direction as the graphic path, if there is, then, deleting the other graphic path; and moving the element structures that constitute the graphic path by a predetermined distance to the direction of character width based on the character width of the outline font, thereby to output a plurality of line segments which effectively eliminates the character width of the outline font.
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Futakuchi Shunsuke
Ito Masatoshi
Good-Johnson Motilewa
Haynes and Boone LLP
Rise Kabushikikaisha
Tung Kee M.
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