Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Megumi Itou

Susumu Hasegawa

Yutaka Shigi

Hajime Watanabe

Yoshiko Imaki

An information processing apparatus provided with an auxiliary memory device for storing type skeletal shape information indicating skeletal shapes of characters, including symbols and pictorial symbols, and element shape information indicating an outline shape and a skeletal shape of each of constituent elements constituting the characters in advance, and a pattern generator for generating a pattern by changing the element shape information according to the type skeletal shape information, drawing the constituent elements according to a predetermined design corresponding to the changed element shape information, and combining the constituent elements thus drawn. This information processing apparatus is capable of easily generating high-quality patterns, which are colored in various ways according to typeface, by reducing the number of data producing steps and data volume necessary for generating patterns by putting a plurality of colors into each stroke of characters including symbols and pictorial symbols.

Information processing apparatus and recording medium with pattern generation programs recorded thereon

An information processing device includes an element deforming section for transfer-deforming at least one of divided plurality of elements of a graphic character; and an output section for alternately outputting first display data of the element after being transfer-deformed by the element deforming section and second display data of the element before being transfer-deformed by the element deforming section by switching the first display data and the second display data. According to the described arrangement, a dynamic image of the graphic character can be displayed on a screen in such a manner that only a portion as desired of the element which constitutes the graphic character can be displayed on the screen. As a result, a dynamic image of the character or drawing can be displayed in a manner as desired by the user with ease without requiring a complicated process.

Information processing device

A character forming apparatus includes (1) a character data storage unit for storing character data of each character pattern, the character data including a character code and the like, (2) a radical pattern data storage unit for storing a radical pattern and the like, (3) an input device for inputting the character code and a character size, (4) character data retrieving unit for retrieving character data corresponding to the inputted character code, (5) a character data coordinate changing unit for changing coordinates in accordance with the inputted character size, (6) a radical restoring unit for restoring a radical pattern, (7) a figure pattern restoring unit for changing the figure pattern and restoring it, (8) a developing unit for developing the restored character data into a dot pattern, and (9) an output device for outputting the dot pattern.

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Nara, Japan

Megumi Itou