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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2006
Yoshiaki Okuno, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Someya, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Yamanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To solve the problem that when a space with a set width is inserted after each character to regularize the spaces between characters the overall character spacing is widened, making text less easy to read, there are provided a character control code storage unit () for storing, for each character display position, a character control code (CTD) including a character code (CC) and character width data (CW), and a positional control unit () for reading the character control code (CTD) for the present character display position from the character control code storage unit (), and controlling the occurrence interval of the present character display position according to the character width data (CW) in the character control code () that was read and the previous character display position.