Patents by Inventor Chadwick C. Coffey

Chadwick C. Coffey 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).

  • Context sensitive font generation
    Patent number: 7188313
    Abstract: Programs, methods and apparatus for context sensitive font generation, especially handwriting fonts. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program product contains instructions to identify a character string including upper case, lower case, and/or symbolic characters; identify the first character in the string; identify a plurality of handwritten glyphs corresponding to the character; select one of the glyphs based upon an adjacent character in the string; and repeat the foregoing steps, thereby converting the character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert E. Hughes, Jr., Chadwick C. Coffey, Michael J. Flagg
  • Context sensitive font generation
    Publication number: 20040205677
    Abstract: Programs, methods and apparatus for context sensitive font generation, especially handwriting fonts. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program product contains instructions to identify a character string including upper case, lower case, and/or symbolic characters; identify the first character in the string; identify a plurality of handwritten glyphs corresponding to the character; select one of the glyphs based upon an adjacent character in the string; and repeat the foregoing steps, thereby converting the character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Hughes, Chadwick C. Coffey, Michael J. Flagg