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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1989
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A data converting apparatus for converting outline data including multiple sets of segment data representative of respective segments of an outline of a character, into dot data representative of the character. The data conversion is effected according to a conversion rule that each stroke of the character is constituted by picture elements which lie within an outline of the stroke so as to satisfy a predetermined requirement, when the character outline is superimposed on a coordinated pixel screen wherein the picture elements are defined by parallel x-axis and y-axis lines. The apparatus includes an ornamental end data converter operable without following the conversion rule, for processing ornamental end data comprising at least one of the multiple sets of segment data of the outline data which represents an ornamental end portion of an ornamented stroke of the character. The ornamental end data converter converts the ornamental end data into a predetermined block of dot data associated with the ornamental end portion of the ornamented stroke.