Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yoshiko Imaki

Susumu Hasegawa

Minehiro Konya

Masayuki Fujisawa

Yutaka Shigi

Hajime Watanabe

Megumi Itou

Megumi Ito

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 and symbol pattern generator includes a skeleton data storage device for storing beforehand, for every skeleton pattern. Skeleton data includes coordinate data of each skeleton point at which changes occur at least in the stroke direction of skeleton pattern for forming characters and symbols, two thickness data which represent lengths of two thickness segments of a stroke on the start and end points of the skeleton pattern, and two angle data which represent angles of the two thickness segments with respect to the stroke direction or the horizontal direction. An input device is used to designate the kind and size of the character and symbol. A thickness data calculating device calculates thickness data of each skeleton point from the two thickness data of the start and end points and the coordinate data of each skeleton point. An angle data calculating device calculates angle data of the thickness segment of each skeleton point from the two angle data of the start and end points and the coordinate data of each skeleton point. An outline data generating device generates outline data from the skeleton data and from the thickness data and the angle data of each skeleton point calculated by the calculating devices respectively. A character and symbol pattern synthesizing device synthesizes character and symbol patterns based on the outline data. An output device outputs the character and symbol patterns.

Character and symbol pattern generator based on skeleton data including

A character pattern generating apparatus includes a memory and a CPU. The memory stores, in advance, character skeleton data representing the skeleton shapes of characters and element outline data representing the outline shapes of the elements constituting the characters for each character style. The CPU obtains outline shape data corresponding to one constituent element in character skeleton data from the element outline data, extracts therefrom element skeleton data for the constituent element, transforms the extracted element skeleton data based on the character skeleton data, and modifies the outline shape data in accordance with the transformation so as to generate a character pattern by using the modified outline data. The character pattern generating apparatus of the present invention generates multiple kinds of high quality fonts involving no design restrictions in a smaller number of steps.

Character generation with extracted and transformed skeleton data

A character generation device that easily implements a multiple-font system without increasing the data amount is provided. Character data of a basic font is stored in a character data storage while paste component data is stored in a paste component data storage. A shape recognizer determines a length and an angle of a process-target element as well as an angle of a stroke to which the process-target element belongs, by referring to a font attribute storage based on a font code and character number specified from a keyboard. A paste component data modifier performs scaling up/down processing and rotation processing with the selected paste component data by referring to the font attribute storage. A data synthesizer generates character data that paste components, subjected to the scaling up/down process and the rotation process, are applied onto the process-target element. Thus, by applying paste components to the process-target element in the basic font, a multiple-font system can be implemented with small amounts of data.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiko Imaki