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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. 19, 1998
Filed:
May. 16, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Allan W Ristow, Salem, NH (US);
Thomas B Hawkins, Groton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Agfa Division, Bayer Corporation, Wilimington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345469 ; 345472 ;
Abstract
A method for construction of a scaleable font database comprised of data stored in a compact form for retrieval in one of several usable forms common in digital typography. The method comprises the steps, for each text character of a font collection of: generating a digital representation of the character and identifying it with respect to character code and typeface design, determining segment endpoints and associations within a model of the character, measuring actual dimensions for the associations, and determining segment descriptors for each contour segment comprising the complete outline of the character.