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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. 17, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
William H Paxton, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Stephen N Schiller, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
Q09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340735 ; 340731 ;
Abstract
An improved method for displaying a character on a raster device at relatively low resolution by identifying regions of the character that improperly touch other regions of the character, and then modifying the display of that character to move or delete pixels which decrease legibility of the character, by (1) enumerating the pixels in an order determined by the path topology, (2) searching for sequences of pixels corresponding to a pointed feature in the character that undesirably touches other parts of the character, and (3) editing the bitmap to remove such contacts.