Patents by Inventor Ernest A. Brock

Ernest A. Brock 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).

  • Digital type font providing typographic feature transformation capability
    Patent number: 6600490
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. The method involves, in an exemplary embodiment, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the base font in accordance with the specifications contained in the font descriptor file, to produce a character program for each character in the base font wherein the data representing the output font is the generic font data as transformed in accordance with said specification. Two or more font descriptor files may be combined, such as by using mathematical weighted averaging of the parameter values for different typographic design features, or otherwise, to create font descriptor files for hybrid typefaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ernest A. Brock, Lawrence G. Applegate
  • Digital type font providing typographic feature transformation capability
    Patent number: 5949435
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus, and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. The method involves, in an exemplary embodiment, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the base font in accordance with the specifications contained in the font descriptor file, to produce a character program for each character in the base font wherein the data representing the output font is the generic font data as transformed in accordance with said specification. Two or more font descriptor files may be combined, such as by using mathematical weighted averaging of the parameter values for different typographic design features, or otherwise, to create font descriptor files for hybrid typefaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ernest A. Brock, Lawrence G. Applegate
  • Method and apparatus for generating digital type font, and resulting fonts using generic font and descriptor file
    Patent number: 5664086
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus and method for generating an output digital font from a base font and one or more font descriptor files. In one example, the method involves, the steps of retrieving from memory a file containing instructions and data for a generic base font; retrieving from memory a font descriptor file containing specifications for operating upon the base font to produce the desired output font; and then generating the output font by performing operations upon the base font in accordance with the specifications contained in the font descriptor file, to produce a character program for each character in the base font wherein the data representing the output font is the generic font data as transformed in accordance with said specification. Two or more font descriptor files may be combined, such as by using mathematical weighted averaging of the parameter values for different typographic design features, or otherwise, to create font descriptor files for hybrid typefaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ernest A. Brock, Lawrence G. Applegate