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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Robert Waverly Zehner, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Nadim Awad, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Michael Dylewski, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ronald Joseph Fernandez, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jonathan Ian McCormack, Los Altos, CA (US);

Hannah Rebecca Lewbel, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/22 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for utilizing different versions of a same font when rendering subsequent portions of a content item. For instance, envision that a user requests to open an electronic book. In response to this request, a display controller may display the first page of the electronic book using a flashing update and, therefore, may display the text using a regular weight of a particular font. However, when the user subsequently requests to turn to the second page of the electronic book, the display controller (utilizing a non-flashing update) may update the display using a version of the same font having a lesser weight. Given that some level of bleeding with likely occur when using the non-flashing update, the lesser weight coupled with the bleeding may result in text that approximates the weight of the text of the first page of the electronic book.


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