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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:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
May. 30, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
James A Green, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
Eltra Corporation, Morristown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340731 ; 340723 ; 340789 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for displaying reduced and expanded size characters in a photocomposition device encodes each of a set of normalized characters in a series of overlapping strokes each stroke being encoded by start point coordinates and a first and second dimension of said shape, encodes a set of instructions describing the display placement and size of the characters, determines the display locations coextensive with each stroke and storing the locations, and accesses the stored locations for display of the strokes and the characters.