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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1988
Tetsuzou Uehara, Tokyo, JP;
Motohide Kokunishi, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Shimoi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Hideko Kagimasa, Hachiouji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A line thickening method and system therefor, which holds skeleton line data of characters consisting of the kinds of lines relative to the types of shapes of lines comprising a character and sequence of coordinates of a plurality of points providing the end positions of the skeleton lines, the thickening process utilizes the kinds of lines of the end positions of the skeleton lines inside a character box for each character, and whenever necessary, one of a plurality of processes is selected for thickening, wherein thickening width data are previously stored for the right and left sides of the direction of each skeleton line viewing from one of the end positions of the skeleton line.