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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1985
Masaki Nishiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display apparatus for displaying a dot pattern comprises a memory in which a plurality of character patterns are stored, a second memory in which second character patterns different from predetermined character patterns among the character patterns stored in the memory are stored, and a display device which can display both the character pattern stored in the memory and the second character pattern stored in the second memory. The second character pattern may be a bold, underlined, superscript, or subscript character pattern. When a desired character is displayed as a bold character, for example, the bold character is formed either by reading out the bold character from the second memory in which the bold character has preliminarily been stored or by changing the desired character to the bold character by a character pattern changing circuit.