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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenji Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Suetani, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Miwa Kanda, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhiko Unno, Suwa, JP;
Hiroshi Kobayashi, Suwa, JP;
Hideyuki Tsukuda, Suwa, JP;
Shigeyuki Kurebayashi, Suwa, JP;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
Abstract
The character display apparatus according to the present invention has a constitution including (1) character display means having at least a character segment in the shape of a character, and a background segment provided around the character segment and constituting a background of an outline character; and (2) display control means for performing on-off control of the character segment and the background segment, which constitute the character display means.