Abstract: A method includes forming a first conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate, forming an ILD layer over the first conductive feature, patterning the ILD layer to form a trench, and forming a conductive layer over the patterned ILD layer to fill the trench. The method further includes polishing the conductive layer to form a via contact configured to interconnect the first conductive feature with a second conductive feature, where polishing the conductive layer exposes a top surface of the ILD layer, polishing the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, such that a top portion of the via contact protrudes from the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, and forming the second conductive feature over the via contact, such that the top portion of the via contact extends into the second conductive feature.

Abstract: A character adjustment method is used for adjusting the character so as to output the character to a second pixel matrix of an output device. The character is designed in a first pixel matrix. The method includes determining a constant, an upper density limit and a lower density limit according to at least one feature value of the output device; performing an interpolation calculation for obtaining a variation parameter according to a density of the character in the first pixel matrix, the constant, the upper density limit and the lower density limit; adjusting the character according to the variation parameter; and outputting the adjusted character to the second pixel matrix by the output device.

Abstract: A character adjustment method is used for adjusting the character so as to output the character to a second pixel matrix of an output device. The character is designed in a first pixel matrix. The method includes determining a constant, an upper density limit and a lower density limit according to at least one feature value of the output device; performing an interpolation calculation for obtaining a variation parameter according to a density of the character in the first pixel matrix, the constant, the upper density limit and the lower density limit; adjusting the character according to the variation parameter; and outputting the adjusted character to the second pixel matrix by the output device.

Abstract: A font deformation method includes surrounding a character with a frame, where the outline of the character has a plurality of control points used for describing the outline of the character; using a set of partitioning lines to divide the frame into a plurality of partitions, the set of partitioning lines separating the character into a plurality of character portions each being corresponding to a partition; determining corresponding coordinates of each control point in its corresponding partition; moving the set of partitioning lines to change the dimension of some partitions; adjusting at least one control point to keep corresponding coordinates of each control point substantially unchanged in its corresponding partition; and drawing a deformed outline according to the plurality of adjusted control points to generate a deformed character.

Abstract: When opening a document, the character codes of all characters in the document are uploaded to a font server, then all possible glyphs corresponding to the uploaded character codes of characters tagged with a font are selected from a font file which stores a plurality of glyphs of the font to form a glyph subset. And the glyph subset is then downloaded.

Abstract: A font generating system of a display includes a variable converting module, a database and a font generator. The variable converting module is used to receive a first set of font parameters and environmental parameters of the display and to generate a second set of font parameters according to the first set of font parameters and the environmental parameters of the display. The database is used to store font data of a plurality of characters. The font generator is used to generate images of the characters according to the second set of font parameters and font data of the plurality of characters.

Abstract: Before reducing a font size of a Chinese character, a to-be-adjusted standard radical is determined according to a non-neighboring outline ratio of a standard radical, and a radical serial list is established for the to-be-adjusted standard radical in a font database, for the purpose of consecutively updating the to-be-adjusted standard radical in the future. While the Chinese character is reduced by its font size, a radical serial list corresponding to the to-be-adjusted standard radical is first searched. The to-be-adjusted standard radical is then updated into a transformed radical step-by-step according to the radical serial list. At last, the transformed radical is used for replacing the to-be-adjusted standard radical to generate a transformed character, so as to achieve the effect of fine-tuning the Chinese character having the reduced font size.

Abstract: A method of adjusting strokes of a font is provided for scaling a complex font to improve the strokes appearing visually blurry. When generating a font, a font engine firstly calculates the insufficient spaces units between two adjacent strokes of the font according to the stroke data of the font. Then, the font engine obtains the fine-tune information of the font, and calculates the optimum distribution of the strokes according to the insufficient spaces units and the fine-tune information so as to generate the stroke-tuning values of the font. Finally, the character is outputted according to the stroke data and the stroke-tuning values of the font.

Abstract: Generating a character includes recording key points and the start and ending points of a stroke, and a stroke-generating program corresponding to the stroke drawing a fine-line structure of the stroke according to the key points and the start and ending points of the stroke. After generating the centerline structure of the stroke, the thickness of the stroke is then adjusted.

Abstract: A method generates a dot-based image of a character (such as a Chinese character) by establishing a monochrome or gray-scale stroke data set, selecting a plurality of strokes from the stroke data set, scaling the selected strokes, and combining and adjusting the strokes to form the dot-based image of the character.

Abstract: A structural graph displaying system for generating a new structural graph by changing sub-graphs of an existent structural graph. The displaying system includes a drawing control program for controlling the drawing process of a character, a contour changing program for changing the contour of a stroke along a contour changing direction, and a graph integration program for integrating and outputting the changed contours of all strokes of a character onto a screen. The displaying system further includes a stroke table for storing a stroke ID and corresponding stroke drawing program of each stroke, and a character description file for storing various stroke parameters of each character. The character description file includes an index file and a stroke description table of each character. The index table contains a WID of each character and the addresses of the correspondent stroke description tables.

Abstract: The present invention provides a matrix character generation system comprising a memory for storing data and programs, a processor for executing the programs stored in the memory, and a screen for displaying matrix graphs generated by the matrix character generation system. The memory comprises a character table for recording all the strokes that form each character, a stroke table for recording the parameters of each stroke, and a graph generation program for displaying the matrix graph of each character on the screen according to the character table and the stroke table. When generating a new character, the graph generation program searches the character table for the stroke IDs of all the strokes of the character and the position of each stroke in the matrix according to the WID of the character. Then it searches the stroke table for the matrix graphic data of each stroke according to the stroke ID of each stroke.