Method for displaying bitmap derived text at a display having limited pixel-to-pixel spacing resolution
US5910805A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 11, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 8, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T11/001
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An image font file is created containing compressed bitmap representations of the characters of one or more fonts utilized for a given text. These compressed bitmap representations are derived as character image templates corresponding with a font of an enlarged size. Upon being conveyed to client software, the individual characters of the image font file are accessed, and while remaining in a compressed format are selectively shifted in accordance with typesetting specification error values, then scaled and filtered to produce a display character in anti-aliased, sub-pixel position format.
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