Abstract: A medical support system includes a patient-side system including patient shooting devices for photographing a patient's body and forming respective images displaying respective parts of the patient's body; a medical-side system located at a position spaced away from the patient-side system and including an image synthesizer for splicing together, at boundary portions, respective adjacent images of the patient's body to produce a composite image displaying an area of the patient's body extending across the respective images, and a display for displaying the composite image produced by the image synthesizer; and a communication link for transmitting information between the medical-side system and the patient-side system and for transferring the images produced by the patient shooting devices to the medical-side system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a font of a character or a symbol including inputting a plurality of coordinate data lying on a contour of a stroke specifying a dash of the character or the symbol, preparing data of the stroke including a plurality of input coordinate data, having one of the input coordinate data as coordinate data specifying the beginning point of the stroke or as coordinate data specifying the end point of the stroke, and forming a font of the character or the symbol including the data of one or more of the strokes. The invention also includes a method of determining whether a portion of the font of the character or symbol is blurred or bled, and alters the font of the character or symbol accordingly. The determination of blurring or bleeding may be made based upon at least one of ink quantity, writing speed, paper construction, or other appropriate factors.

Abstract: Paper fiber structure data simulating the paper fiber structure required for drawing a bled figure, and a method and apparatus for drawing, based upon the paper fiber structure data, a bled figure which gives an impression as if the figure were actually drawn on a paper sheet with ink. Specifically, the paper fiber structure is modelled to form paper fiber structure data set for correspondence with respective pixels in a figure. The ink flow through the paper fiber interstices is modelled for forming picture data representing a bled figure based upon the paper fiber structure data. Based on the picture data, the picture of the bled figure is displayed on a display device.