1426 results about "Typeface" patented technology

The present invention facilitates the specification and distribution of templated content materials by a content provider over an information exchange network such as the Internet. The present invention incorporates a system for managing inventories of graphical elements and their relationships to pre-defined page templates. A database capable of keeping track of users and their corresponding access privileges within the system is employed to monitor user activity. Ultimately, through the use of a software component delivered over the Internet for use within standard web browsers, end-users are able to populate templates under the constraints imposed by the rules of the manufacturers at the time of template design. These population elements which “fill in the blanks” of the pre-defined templates may be either of type IMAGE or TEXT. Image regions are populated by choosing from a subset of the entire image inventory, while TEXT types can be completely free form, with specific rules guiding justification, point size, font, and leading, or “fill in the blank” form with the same constraint rules as free form. Once the end user has met all of the criteria for a fully populated template, the system provides sophisticated means for downloading a high resolution file (such as a print-ready file or other file representation of the composed publication) which encapsulates all resources needed (layout, images, fonts, and constraint geometries) to fulfill the requirements of the publication. The downloaded file may be printed or published by electronic transfer, e.g., to a publisher for printing of the actual publication.

At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method to identify top hits in search result based on learned user preferences. In one embodiment, an editor receives a user selection of a font to be used in a document when the user is composing the document using the editor. The editor invokes a font recommendation engine. Based on the font selected, the font recommendation engine automatically recommends a set of one or more fonts to the user according to a statistical model of font usage.

A user interface for parsing unstructured data using pattern recognition. The patterns used in parsing data are formed from regular expressions. The parsed data may be displayed in a first format and unmatched strings in the unstructured text may be displayed in a second format. A format may comprise a desired color, font or any other user interface parameter. In addition, the data that parses according to a pattern may be placed in a column associated with the pattern in a tabular user interface, for example a spreadsheet like Excel™. Associating a pattern with a position to display successful matches in allows for breaking unstructured text into pieces associated with a particular field or column. Modification of the patterns allows for more and more of the unstructured text to match the patterns and when the data has been parsed to the desired level, the data may be imported into a database.

Optical character recognition (OCR) for images such as a street scene image is generally a difficult problem because of the variety of fonts, styles, colors, sizes, orientations, occlusions and partial occlusions that can be observed in the textual content of such scenes. However, a database query can provide useful information that can assist the OCR process. For instance, a query to a digital mapping database can provide information such as one or more businesses in a vicinity, the street name, and a range of possible addresses. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, this mapping information is used as prior information or constraints for an OCR engine that is interpreting the corresponding street scene image, resulting in much greater accuracy of the digital map data provided to the user.

A method is provided for displaying a page formed of discrete elements, such as a Web page, on different computing devices. The method converts the page into a semantic thumbnail, which preserves the overall appearance of the page and displays readable text segments that enable a user to identify main areas of the page. The semantic thumbnail is adaptable to different screen sizes and target font sizes. The method enlarges unreadable text segments in a miniature version of the page. The method also trims the enlarged text segments to fit the width of the semantic thumbnail by summarizing or cropping text in the enlarged text segments.

A method and system for publishing a plurality of books for user access includes selecting a plurality of books, converting each book from a layout or publication digital data form, by providing and applying a tool to detect characteristic features (such as layout, typeface, and hierarchical or organizational features such as chapter headings, captions, drawings and tables), and extracting text or data information of the book tagged with the features. This produces a searchable publishing database indexed by book structure such that a user may remotely, access the database, search desired text data, and view an image of a portion of the book with the desired data. A search engine may score search results based on their position in the hierarchy or other factors, determining degree of relevance of text or data information located by the search engine.

A method is provided for managing fonts in a radio communication terminal, which can receive fonts in order to render contents on a screen. One such method involves the use of the following elements in the terminal, namely: a font database that lists all of the fonts or font portions stored by the terminal and matches at least one management parameter with each of the fonts; and set of font management commands including at least one command, which is applied to a font portion and which belongs to the group containing at least a command for transmitting a font portion for storage in the terminal, a command for updating a font portion stored in the terminal and a command for deleting a font portion stored in the terminal.

A “Character-Level Font Linker” provides character-level linking of fonts via Unicode code-point to font mapping. A lookup table is used to identify glyph-level support for runs of particular characters on a Unicode code-point basis for relative to a set of available fonts. This lookup table enables automatic selection of one or more specific fonts for rendering one or more runs of characters comprising a text string. The lookup table is constructed offline by automatically evaluating glyphs comprising a set of common or default fonts. The table is then used for automatically selecting fonts for rendering text strings. Alternately, the lookup table is generated (or updated) locally to include some or all locally installed fonts. Finally, in another embodiment, if no supporting font is identified in the table for a particular character, the system automatically downloads the necessary glyph from one or more remote servers.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting a plurality of options for selection. Each option is organized into either a category or a sub-category that is associated with a category. The association between categories and sub-categories is independent of time. Categories are displayed along one axis and sub-categories are displayed simultaneously along another orthogonal axis. The axis chosen for categories may depend on the direction that text associated with the categories is written. Categories and sub-categories are available for immediate selection, without first having to highlight or select any option. To account for a large number of options, categories and sub-categories may scroll as needed. The appearance of categories and sub-categories may be distinguished in some way, such as through colors, fonts, or borders.

Input texts, e.g., electronic text files containing a written work, are received by the invention. Selected visual characteristics of text, such as such as font case, font type, font size, font color, word spacing, and line spacing, are automatically applied to the text and are varied within the text to produce enhanced text. The variation may occur as frequently as character to character, or word to word, sentence to sentence, line to line, paragraph to paragraph, or some other frequency. The resulting enhanced text is visually different from the received text (provided the applied variations are not already present in the received text). The enhanced text is then visually displayed to a reader, as by providing it on a computer monitor or in printed form. The enhanced text, having more visible variety than the received text, is believed to result in greater reading speed, comprehension, and/or interest in people having certain types of reading deficiencies.

The object of the present invention is to render markup documents within the limits of resolutions smaller than the resolutions for which the documents were originally designed, in most cases without introducing horizontal scrolling, while keeping the original fonts, colors, design, and style. The object is achieved by finding and selecting only elements that are too big, shrinking them individually, and disallowing certain elements to grow table cells under specific circumstances.

Instead of accepting competing ads and using an arbitration function (e.g., an auction) to choose winning ads to be served with a document, sets of ads (perhaps having different characteristics) can be generated, and an arbitration function can be used to select the winning set of ads. Such arbitrations on sets of ads can consider how ads, search results, colors, positions, fonts, etc., all interact with each other and affect the usefulness of the sets of ads to advertisers, end users, document publishers, and/or an ad serving entity.

A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for applying a global formatting scheme to a chart in an electronic document. According to a system, a chart application program receives a selection of a chart object in the electronic document and a document theme. The document theme includes a combination of formatting schemes including a color scheme, a font scheme, and a style matrix. The chart application program then automatically applies the selected document theme to the selected chart object in the electronic document. In applying the selected document theme to the selected chart object, the chart application program automatically updates a number of properties of the chart object including color, font, line, effect, and fill. The chart application further enables a user to modify a selected chart style in the document theme by modifying the elements related to the selected chart style and saving the chart type of the selected chart object and the modified chart style as a custom chart template to a file. When a user opens the file, the chart application automatically updates an existing chart template gallery to include the custom chart template.

A user interface and method are provided for allowing text to be previewed in multiple fonts simultaneously. Text in fonts of different types and/or sizes may be previewed in a variety of formats in a single preview area. Formats include real time text entered by the user, paragraph, alphanumeric order and waterfall. The actual text in the paragraph, alphanumeric order and waterfall may be customized by the user.

The invention provides an identification method to identify Chinese printed formula, including analysis of typeface, character recognition and mathematical formula recognition three modules; typeface analysis module two-value pretreats BMP images, split out literal block, image block and list block using projection method combined with bottom-up typeface analysis algorithm, preserve image block and list block; Chinese character recognition module false merge rows against literal block, select segmentation parameters, extract characteristics and recognize Chinese characters, record the rejected results, combine adjacent rejected results in the same row in order to locate formula region; mathematical formula recognition is to extract,divide formula characters in the rejected character region, merger some characters and recognize; finally obtain the relationship between characters through structure analysis of formula characters, and output the final one-dimensional character strings. the identification effect of this invention is famous after test.

The invention relates to an inlaying method and device of digital watermarks in text documents. The method comprises the steps that electronic form text documents are converted to EMF documents, the converted initial EMF documents are opened, document header parameter information is used for setting up corresponding target EMF documents, all GDI functions and parameter information of the GDI functions in the initial EMF documents are all searched, whether the DGI functions are TEXTOUT is judged, if yes, all font information is read and watermark information is inlaid, and then the GDI functions are copied to the target EMF documents, if not, the DGI functions are directly copied to the target EMF documents, and after all the initial EMF documents are processed, all target EMF documents inlaid with the watermark information are subjected to the final output conversion operation. According to the method and device, the problem of watermark information inlaying of various electronic form text documents and paper text documents is solved, and safety monitoring and controlling, source tracing and content protection of important text documents are achieved.

A text formatting system parses text (15) and reformats it (30) to establish optimal spacing for readability and reader comprehension. It also reduces the incidence of rivers and therefore enhances the aesthetic quality of the formatted text. The formatting applied to the text by the present invention is based on structure rules that determine key parameters of page layout including for example column width, font, font size, color, leading and kerning.

Methods and computer programs for automatically creating a text layout in a markup language design for a product to be printed. A number of defined text elements are available for user text. The layout is based on the text elements having user text content. Text elements without text content are disregarded. Positioning of the text elements is determined based on the height of the text elements, defined text element spacing distances, and a defined positioning order. Creating a layout may include positioning design elements relative to the text elements. Font sizes and spacing distances are automatically reduced if necessary to create a suitable layout.

A method and an apparatus that search for font data associated with an electronic document in a system in response to a font request are described. A font search is automatically activated when a requested font is determined not yet registered in a system. As a result of the font search, a requested font may be registered into a system. If a font search cannot locate a requested font in local storages and remote systems, a replacement for the requested font is selected from registered fonts. A replacement font may be one of the registered fonts most similar to the requested font according to a similarity measurement based on font attributes.

This invention relates to one print Mongolia character identification method, which comprises the following steps: extracting the character integral types information and character information pre-sorting to determine the input characters type; then drawing the direction property of the strokes information; on this base adopting two steps for property optimization process; finally by use of MQDF to realize sort judgment of statistic sorter.

Automated font mapping is performed for one or more document fonts of a document to map the one or more document fonts to at least one replacement font. The font mapping is limited by at least one document-specific font mapping limitation. The document is rendered using the at least one replacement font. The automated font mapping may include performing a constrained optimization of an objective function measuring similarity of the one or more document fonts and the corresponding mapped at least one replacement font, the constrained optimization being constrained by at least one constraint embodying at least one document-specific font mapping limitation. The automated font mapping may include selecting a subset of the set of fonts available for the rendering based on the at least one document-specific font mapping limitation, and performing the optimization respective to the selected subset of the set of fonts available for the rendering.