Patents by Inventor Tadaaki Matsumoto

Tadaaki Matsumoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Font management system
    Patent number: 7570269
    Abstract: A time for displaying bitmap data is shortened, and the volume of a font table is reduced. A table having all records from start 0000h to end FFFFh is used as a pointer table which imparts a start address of bitmap data. A start address of bitmap data is stored in each of the records. Thereby, the character code directly accesses a corresponding record, to thus acquire a start address. Further, the volume of a font table is diminished by means of combined use, as pointer tables, of a first pointer table from which unused character code areas are removed and a second pointer table which specifies an address positional relationship between the respective character code areas achieved before removal and the respective character codes achieved after removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tadaaki Matsumoto, Hideki Uematsu
  • FONT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20070075882
    Abstract: A time for displaying bitmap data is shortened, and the volume of a font table is reduced. A table having all records from start 0000h to end FFFFh is used as a pointer table which imparts a start address of bitmap data. A start address of bitmap data is stored in each of the records. Thereby, the character code directly accesses a corresponding record, to thus acquire a start address. Further, the volume of a font table is diminished by means of combined use, as pointer tables, of a first pointer table from which unused character code areas are removed and a second pointer table which specifies an address positional relationship between the respective character code areas achieved before removal and the respective character codes achieved after removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Tadaaki Matsumoto, Hideki Uematsu