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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
May. 23, 2002
Yu-rong Wang, Beijing, CN;
You-shun Liu, Beijing, CN;
Zhi-guang Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Shan Xu, Beijing, CN;
Yu-Rong Wang, Beijing, CN;
You-Shun Liu, Beijing, CN;
Zhi-Guang Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Shan Xu, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The described arrangements and procedures anti-alias a character for display on a monitor such as an interlaced television monitor. In one implementation, an expanded character is generated by increasing a character's original dimensions. The expanded character includes multiple sub-blocks and each sub-block includes multiple pixels. The pixels of each sub-block are mapped to a single destination color that is based on specific numbers of foreground pixels in the sub-block and a particular number of gray levels used to represent the character. Subsequent to this mapping, the expanded character is scaled back to its original size.