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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:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1987
William L Hodges, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Patrick J Cheek, Shawnee Mission, KS (US);
Preco Industries, Inc., Lenexa, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and conversion system are provided for enabling a laser printer or the like to produce drawings including graphics and text from input supplied by a computer aided design (CAD) system which allows text font style to be selected as desired and which produces curved lines as smooth curves. The preferred apparatus and method convert entity descriptions supplied by the CAD system in vector notation into signal representative of entity descriptions in device notation whereby the output device uses the signals to create an entity image according to the type of entity such as an arc, text, or the like, and according to corresponding plotting data defining the parameters of the entity. The system and method also allow the user to enter signals representative of the desired font style of the text characters, gray scale levels, and reverse image if desired while also creating curved line images as smooth curves rather than as a series of straight short line segments.