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:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Kuo-Young Cheng, Taichung Hsien, TW;
DynaLab Inc., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method for automatically converting an outline font character into a glyph-based font character using a set of predefined basic glyphs stored in a glyph database is provided. Each basic glyph is predefined as a program for rendering the basic glyph for output. Additionally, each basic glyph is associated with a glyph signature consisting of feature points, and script sentences that obtain key points and width values based on the feature points. According to the automatic font conversion method, first, an outline font character to be redefined is captured. Then, one glyph is selected from the captured character. Thereafter, feature points are identified along the outline of the selected glyph and stored in a glyph signature. Next, the glyph database is searched and a basic glyph that topographically matches the selected glyph is retrieved. Next, the script sentences associated with the retrieved basic glyph are used together with the identified feature points of the selected glyph to obtain key points and width values for the selected glyph. Thereafter, the selected glyph with its key points and width values is stored as a program for rendering the selected glyph for output. At this point, the selected glyph is fully defined. The process of defining a selected glyph is repeated for all glyphs included in the captured outline font character, i.e., until the outline font character is fully redefined based on its glyphs into a glyph-based font character. The glyph-based font is suited for font communication between different systems having different resolutions.