Text Rendering Within Symbol Boundaries

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for rendering symbols with text often result in text overlapping the symbol boundaries or requiring abbreviations due to size limitations, with prior solutions inadequately handling text that exceeds the symbol's capacity.

Innovation Solution

The method involves selecting a symbol from a repository, combining text with it by inserting it within a defined text box or automatically determining a text box to ensure the text fits within the symbol's boundaries, using a processor and memory with instructions to render the symbol with as many lines of text as possible and minimal line breaks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If text is rendered without size restriction, then text completeness is improved, but text overlaps the boundaries of the symbol

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetext completenessVSAvoidtext positioning accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the text rendering process into multiple lines, with each line contained within the symbol boundaries. The text is segmented into lines that fit within the available vertical space, ensuring complete text display without overlapping the symbol boundaries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from single-line horizontal text display to multi-line vertical text display. By utilizing the vertical dimension within the symbol boundaries, the system can accommodate longer text content while maintaining boundary constraints and improving text completeness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Manufacturing precision

If line breaks are automatically performed to fit text within symbol, then text boundary compliance is improved, but text readability deteriorates due to excessive line breaks

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetext boundary complianceVSAvoidtext readability

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent dynamically adjusts text rendering parameters including font size, line height, and character spacing to maximize text capacity within the symbol boundaries. By optimizing these parameters, the system reduces the number of line breaks needed while maintaining complete text display and boundary compliance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If text size is limited to fit within symbol, then text boundary compliance is improved, but text information capacity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetext boundary complianceVSAvoidtext information capacity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic text rendering that adjusts font size and line spacing based on the available symbol dimensions and text content length. This dynamic adjustment allows maximum text information capacity to be displayed within the fixed symbol boundaries without requiring abbreviations or truncation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS7787708B2Systems and methods for rendering text within symbols

Publication Date: 2010.08.31 SAG ARIS GMBH

AI summary

Systems and methods are provided for rendering symbols with text. In one implementation, the method may comprise selecting a symbol from a repository, selecting text to be combined with symbol, and combining the text with the symbol. To combine the text with the symbol, the method may further comprise combining the text with the symbol according to at least one of inserting text within an defined text box in the symbol, and automatically determining a text box within the symbol to insert the text.