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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. 13, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terence S. Dowling, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeremy A. Hall, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/24 ; G09G 5/00 ; G06T 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/24 ; G09G 5/00 ; G06T 1/100 ;
Abstract
A method for creating anti-aliased characters on a computer output device includes the steps of generating a call from a client process for a character to be rendered, selecting a best alignment grid from a set of alignment grids associated with the device grid, rendering the character at a high resolution, and aligning stems of the character with an alignment grid corresponding to the resolution of an output device. The step of aligning the high resolution rendered stems to the alignment grid provides for an anti-aliased output with balanced stems.