The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 16, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1991
Carl B Frankel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abekas Video Systems, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for electronically generating colorized characters for display by an external video display device wherein a user can specify one or more characters to be displayed, one or more curves, and one or more colorization functions which specify the colors of a pixel of the character to be displayed at a distance defined by a distance function. The apparatus reads the character defining data for the character to be displayed and generates and outputs electronic colorization data for each pixel of the character by electronically calculating the colorization function as a function of the distance defined by the distance function for the specified curve or curves.