The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas T. Donahue, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Richard Sinn, Milpitas, CA (US);
Allan M. Young, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Guy Nicholas, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A typeface processing application accesses a character skeleton, which has control points and curves defined by control points, and a character outline surrounding the character skeleton. The typeface processing application computes, for a design parameter of a design application, a graphics control dataset based on a particular control point. Doing so involves identifying a pair of control point positions and a pair of expansions of the character outline, where each position or expansion pair corresponds to a pair of design parameter values. The typeface processing application generates the graphics control dataset, which includes intermediate positions of the control point between the pair of positions and intermediate expansions of the character outline between the pair of expansions. The typeface processing application outputs the graphics control dataset to the design application, which can display, responsive to a selection of a design parameter value, modified character designs generated using the graphics control dataset.