Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yoshimi Asai

Noriyuki Koyama

Satoshi Okada

Susumu Hasegawa

Yuka Yabuuchi

Kenji Kimura

Yutaka Shigi

Hajime Watanabe

Tomoko Watanabe

Shiro Suzuki

Tetsuko Komma

The size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics is modified while the size of each of the plurality of virtual areas included in the display area is maintained, so that the visual recognizability (ease of reading, or ease of recognition through reading) of characters or graphics is improved without changing the layout thereof. A character/graphic display apparatus of the present invention includes a display device including a display area for displaying a plurality of characters or graphics; and a control section for controlling the display device. The display area includes a plurality of virtual areas. The control section modifies the size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics while maintaining the size of each virtual area included in the display area; and controls the display device to display each of the plurality of characters or graphics having the modified size in the respective virtual area.

Character/graphic display apparatus, character/graphic display method, program, and recording medium

A display apparatus () comprises a display device () and a control section () for displaying characters by using sub-pixel rendering. Each character is displayed in a frame having a predetermined size. The control section () has a skeleton portion shifting section () which shifts a center of a skeleton portion of a character toward a center of the frame using sub-pixel precision.

Display apparatus, information display method, information display program, readable recording medium, and information apparatus

A graphic display apparatus for displaying a graphic which is represented by binary bit map data includes: a display device including a plurality of sub-pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels form a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of groups includes a predetermined plural number of sub-pixels, and the control section assigns each of bits included in the bit map data to one of the plurality of groups and displays the graphic by controlling sub-pixels included in the one of the plurality of groups based on information about bits located in the vicinity of the bit assigned to the one of the plurality of groups.

Graphic display apparatus, character display apparatus, display method, recording medium, and program

Character display apparatus includes a display device and a control section. The control section controls the display device such that: a color element level of at least one first sub-pixel, which corresponds to a basic portion of a first character, is set to a predetermined color element level; and a color element level of a first vicinal sub-pixel located in the vicinity of the at least one first sub-pixel is set to a color element level different from the predetermined color element level, whereby the first character is displayed on a display plane, the basic portion of the first character is included in a first frame having a predetermined size, the at least one first sub-pixel is included in a first region on the display plane which corresponds to the first frame, and at least one of the at least one first vicinal sub-pixel is out of the first region.

Character display apparatus, character display method, character display program, and recording medium therefor

A character display apparatus includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein: each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction; a corresponding one of a plurality of color elements is pre-assigned to each of the sub-pixels; an intensity of each of the color elements is represented stepwise through a plurality of color element levels; the control section executes tasks of: setting each of the sub-pixels to one of the color element levels; according to a relationship between the plurality of color element levels and a plurality of brightness levels, converting the color element level for each of the sub-pixels to a corresponding brightness level among the plurality of brightness levels; and changing the relationship according to at least one of character color information which defines a color of a character to be displayed on the display device and background color information which defines a background color of the character.

Character display device, character display method, and recording medium therefor

An image display apparatus including: a 3D display device and a control section for controlling the 3D display device, wherein the control section obtains a drawing pattern corresponding to 2D image data, and displays the drawing pattern on the 3D display device. The drawing pattern is constructed in such a manner that when the drawing pattern is displayed on the 3D display device, the drawing pattern exhibits a pseudo color which is identical to a color which would be exhibited when the 2D image data is displayed by a 2D display device.

Image display apparatus, image displaying method and recording medium

A character display apparatus of the present invention includes: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device. Each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction. A corresponding one of a plurality of color elements is pre-assigned to each of the sub-pixels. The control section displays a character on the display device by independently controlling the color elements respectively corresponding to the sub-pixels.

Character display apparatus, character display method, and recording medium

A character font generation apparatus generates a font of a character for the output of the character to an output unit. First, whether the character specified through the operation of an input unit can be output in a desired font based on a predetermined resolution of the output unit or not is determined. If the result of the determination is no, a stroke of the character is omitted to reduce the size of the character, to allow the correct output according to the predetermined resolution. The stroke omission is performed with reference to contents of a memory storing various information necessary for the character font generation and a priority determination rule indicating various information for determining the priority of stroke omission, so as to maintain the balance and to preserve the shape (contour) of the character.

Method and apparatus for character font generation within limitation of character output media and computer readable storage medium storing character font generation program

A character pattern generator includes: an input section for inputting an input information that contains a character code, a character style, and a character size of a character pattern to be generated; a character information storing section for storing, for each character code, a character information containing a stroke configuration information composed of skeleton coordinate data of strokes constituting the character pattern; a bit map font generating section for reading, from the character information storing section, the stroke configuration information contained in the character information based on the input information input by the input section and for generating a bit map font based on the skeleton coordinate data of the stroke configuration information that has been read; and an output section for outputting, as a character pattern, the bit map font generated by the bit map font generating section.

Character pattern generator, character generating method, and storage medium therefor

A character pattern generating apparatus includes a CPU and a memory for pre-storing character shape skeleton data, element skeleton shape data, element skeleton shape data, and element outline shape data. The CPU determines whether a thickness of a character is to be altered or not from a standard thickness, and determines whether the process of altering the thickness of each constituent element in the element outline shape data is to be performed by calculation, or by replacing the element with an alternative element in the case where character thickness is to be altered. The CPU then alters the thickness in the element outline shape data according to the determination and deforms the element skeleton shape data based on the character shape skeleton data. Associated therewith, the CPU alters the element outline shape data based on the altered element skeleton shape data and generates a character pattern from the altered element outline shape data.

Character pattern generating apparatus

Depth information generating section generates depth image information representing the class of the depth of each pixel in two-dimensional image information outputted from an image input section, according to depth information outputted from an input section. A stereoscopic image information generating section generates stereoscopic image information, based on the depth image information and the two-dimensional image information. Thereafter, an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye read by an image information output section are alternately displayed on the screen of an image display section under the control of a gate. In synchronization with the change-over operation of alternately displaying the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye, the stereoscopic section controls the opening and closing of liquid crystal shutters of liquid crystal shutter glasses. A stereoscopic image information correcting section corrects stereoscopic image information in response to image drawing information transmitted from the input section. Thus, a stereoscopic image can be easily generated based on the two-dimensional image information.

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Yoshimi Asai