Abstract: A method of operating a rear video camera includes a non-volatile memory for storing information and a video imager configured to load information from the non-volatile memory and to obtain video signals with video images from a field of view rearward of a vehicle. The video imager is configured to output an enable signal at a pin of the video imager when the information is loaded onto the video imager from the non-volatile memory and to output video signals. A video buffer is configured to receive the video signals and the enable signal from the video imager and to output video signals to an interior vehicle display when the enable signal is received. When the information is not loaded onto the video imager, the video imager does not provide an enable signal and no image is displayed.

Abstract: A medical imaging system having an image sensor, a birefringent mask coupled to the image sensor, and processing circuitry that obtains image data from the image sensor, and performs processing on the image data based on unique optical characteristics of a coupled medical device, wherein the processing includes selecting at least one of depth of field expansion and blur improvement based on the unique optical characteristics.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic kerning pair reduction for digital font rendering. Example methods may include receiving a first font file comprising glyph data and a first set of kerning pairs, determining a first kerning pair of the first set of kerning pairs that comprises a kerning adjustment value below a kerning adjustment threshold, removing the first kerning pair from the first set of kerning pairs to generate a second set of kerning pairs, and generating a second font file comprising the glyph data and the second set of kerning pairs.

Abstract: A Text information displaying method for displaying a message received or generated by a first electronic device on a display of a second electronic device. The text information displaying method includes the steps of: receiving a request of displaying the message; generating a word string according to the request, wherein the word string includes at least one word pattern and at least one graph code correspondingly representing the at least one word pattern; transmitting the word pattern and the graph code from the first electronic device to the second electronic device; and receiving the at least one word pattern and the at least one graph code, and displaying the at least one word pattern corresponding to the message received or generated by the first electronic device on the display according to the graph code.

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 display uses x illuminator systems to produce x primary colors and y overlap colors, which are combinations of primary colors, to illuminate a spatial light modulator in a display system. A first set of n duty cycles for the x primary colors over a frame is provided, wherein the display system can select any one of the duty cycles to produce a desired white point. A second set of n duty cycles of x+y colors over a frame corresponding to the first set of duty cycles is determined, where the second set of duty cycles are generated responsive to a specified desired allocation of the frame to the y overlap colors, such that each of the overlap colors can be displayed from a dark shade to a bright shade while maintaining a constant color point.

Abstract: A system, method and computer writeable medium for creating a personalized font and which includes an electronic pad exhibiting a display. A stylus pen is manipulated to mark upon at least one field exhibited by the pad on its display. A separate processor operable device incorporates a keyboard, and to which the electronic pad is communicated. In this fashion, the pad is utilized in combination with the keyboard in order to create a personalized font associated with a software writing program of the processor operable device.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for processing character data is provided, which selects a format of the character data to be used for generating print data. When a user instruction for printing character data according to character command data specifying the output of the character data is received, the format of the character data is selected based on the character command data.

Abstract: A medical workstation is defined by a supporting structure having at least one medical diagnostic instrument disposed thereupon. A first display is further disposed on a first side of the supporting structure and a second display is disposed on a second side of the supporting structure in a manner substantially opposite from the first display. Each of the first and second displays are interconnected to the at least one medical diagnostic instrument to permit at least one of the displays in order to display diagnostic results and are tandemly or independently controllable.

Abstract: Gesture-based character input is described. A user inputs a character by selecting keys on a keypad device via a gesture representing the shape of the character. The sequence of keys selected by the user is interpreted to represent a specific character.

Abstract: A character display control circuit comprises a selection circuit to select and output, as one of the RGB signals, one of a first voltage, a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and one or more third voltages existing between the first and second voltages; a holding circuit in which first data, consisting of a plurality of bits, for the selection circuit to select and output one of the first, second, and third voltages, is set in response to display timings of the display characters; and a selection control circuit to supply the selection circuit with selection signals for the selection circuit to select and output one of the first, second and third voltages depending on the first data, second data associated with the selection of the first voltage or the second voltage, and third data associated with the selection/unselection of the third voltages.

Abstract: In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amounts in the first registration area and the second registration area are determined based on the language which the information processing device uses, and depending on the determined amounts, a first font is registered in the first registration area in the printer and a second font is registered in the second registration area.

Abstract: A point-of-care computer system includes a display positioned in a point-of-care location, a computer coupled to the display, and a network coupled to the computer to enable the computer to access information stored in a remote location.

Abstract: A design tool for choosing and modifying features of a dot matrix display. The design tool allows a user to design and save a character set and then to enter and view text to be displayed using the character set. The user is able to modify features of the display and to immediately see the result of any modifications made. The user may further see a representation of a hardware display having features and characteristics selected by the user, and may modify the features as desired. As the modifications are made, they are reflected in the representation of the hardware display. The design tool allows the user to store numerical representations of the selected features and characteristics of the design in order to provide the numerical representations to personnel implementing a hardware embodiment of the design.

Abstract: A font database includes a plurality of font files each of which stores bitmaps associated with a range of characters. The plurality of font files contains only a single version of a bitmap for each character. In a first embodiment, a plurality of composite font files contain one of more pointers pointing to selected ones of said plurality of font files. In a second embodiment, a rules set responsive to a print request retrieves a desired font file to print a character in accordance with the established rule set.

Abstract: An external character creating method is provided for an image forming apparatus having a display screen. The external character creating method includes the steps of displaying at least a portion of image data in a specifying area on the display screen, displaying a dot-shaped cursor on the display screen, and creating an external character on the displayed image data using the cursor. The cursor is fixed at a position in the specifying area, so that the image data is scrolled in the vertical direction and in the horizontal direction to create an external character.

Abstract: Data, including letters, numerals and marks, are sequentially scrolled on a display. When a switch is pushed, the scroll is interrupted, and then the data being displayed is fixed. An arrangement may be made such that the scroll occurs at a high speed first and then occurs at a low speec in response to the operation of the switch. Further, the data being displayed may be caused to blink for a confirmation purpose.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for horizontally expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character display image to fully fill the screen of a fiat panel display. Cell lines for each character are remapped to provide expanded cell lines. The flat panel apparatus includes a video memory for storing the character code, attribute data and font data, a character generator for generating character font data based on the character code, a lookup table for providing expanded cell lines, and an attribute controller for combining the font data and the attribute data for output to a flat panel display.

Abstract: A radio selective calling receiver having means for receiving a message, and displaying the received message on a display section, the receiver comprising storage means 9 in which the maximum number of alphanumeric, katakana or Kanji which can be displayed on one screen of the display section in the double-width size can be stored; determination means 10 for, when a message is received, determining whether or not the number of characters in the received message is larger than the maximum number of characters stored in the storage means which can be displayed on one screen in the double-width size; determination means 11 for determining whether or not the received message contains alphanumeric or katakana characters when the determination means 10 determines that the number of characters in the received message is larger; and control means for converting alphanumeric or katakana characters in the message into the singe-width size when the determination means 11 determines that the received message contains alp

Abstract: The ARC/INFO.RTM. geographic information system (GIS) computer program (28) supports multiple threads of command line (TTY) and graphic user interface (GUI) operations. A TTY operation at the top of a thread enables the program (28) to be controlled from a keyboard (20) through a terminal emulator (26), whereas a GUI operation at the top of a thread enables the program 28 to be controlled by a mouse (22) using a window display (24). Switching from TTY to GUI control of the program (28) in its stand-alone form requires a command from its input stream, whereas switching from GUI to TTY control requires a manual trigger from a mouse (22) or keyboard (20). A controller (44) of the invention normally enables GUI control by inserting a dummy GUI operation (50) including a dummy window as an artifact on top of a TTY operation (46) in a thread (48).

Abstract: A microcomputer has a plurality of on screen display devices in one chip. Under control of a CPU, display tasks are respectively controlled in the on screen display devices in an independent manner, thereby obtaining a desired display screen on which the display tasks are simultaneously displayed. The microcomputer has a function of controlling priorities of display of the display tasks, and that of controlling occurrence of interrupt and existence of a mask in display of the display tasks. A desired display screen on which the display tasks are simultaneously displayed is obtained by combining these control functions.

Abstract: A multi-coloured display unit is described for characters having colour indicator signals. The characters can be displayed in a plurality of colours. Without information of the identify of the characters getting lost, the legibility structure is influenced by the spreading of the colours over the various parts of the text. Initially, such colours are preselected when compiling the text. However, for various implementations this spreading is sub-optimal. Consequently, a transforming device is comprised for realizing and implementing a different colour structure and hence improving the legibility structure depending on the application and the original structure of the colour.

Abstract: A character processing apparatus for recognizing coordinate information expressing a character, an exterior outline, an interior outline, a horizontal line and a vertical line; classifying the coordinate information expressing a character, the exterior outline, the interior outline, the horizontal line and the vertical line, and then determining a pair of the horizontal line and the vertical line; and setting a skipping order at the time of low pixel so as to be converted into character data for a bit map development composed of a control point coordinate for expressing the outline of the subject character, band information and coordinate value information about the control point which is not included in the band information.

Abstract: An image display control apparatus which can achieve multicolor display for each font. It includes a first memory for storing red, green and blue pattern codes forming an image pattern, a second memory in which bitmap type image pattern data corresponding to the pattern codes have been stored, first, second and third buffers for temporarily storing the image pattern data, first, second and third serial output circuits for serially outputting data delivered from the first, second and third buffers, and a display control circuit for controlling such that the red, green and blue image pattern data are sequentially stored in the first, second and third buffers.

Abstract: In an on-screen display (OSD) circuit and position detector, the OSD circuit includes a menu OSD circuit for outputting video signals Rm, Gm and Bm and switch signal Ym, a pointer OSD circuit for selecting displayed menu items and for outputting video signals Rp, Gp and Bp and switch signal Yp, and a pointer or menu selecting circuit for receiving the video signals of the menu OSD circuit, Rm, Gm and Bm and switch signal Ym as inputs, and receiving the video signals of the pointer OSD circuit, Rp, Gp and Bp and switch signal Yp as inputs to then first select the output of the pointer OSD circuit, and then to selectively output the output of the menu OSD circuit if there is no output from the pointer OSD circuit.

Abstract: An on-screen display circuit comprising a moving clock generator for generating a moving clock signal and a character moving clock signal in response to a vertical synchronous signal, the moving clock signal varying a horizontal display position value, the character moving clock signal indicating that information to be displayed on a screen has been moved by a horizontal width of one character, a horizontal position detector for generating a horizontal position signal in response to the moving clock signal and the character moving clock signal from the moving clock generator, a vertical position signal and vertical and horizontal clock signals and outputting the generated horizontal position signal to a horizontal dot clock generator, the horizontal position signal designating a horizontal position of a character to be displayed on the screen, a display off signal generator for generating a display off signal in response to the vertical and horizontal clock signals, and a RAM address generator for generating

Abstract: A section erasure control apparatus for a character generator including a section erasure data receiving circuit for receiving section erasure data a section erasure region control circuit for analyzing the section erasure data and identifying a section erasure region and a decoder for decoding output data from the section erasure region control circuit and outputting an erasure execution signal identifying the section erasure region in accordance with the decoding.

Abstract: A system and method for storing and retrieving fixed-width and compressed characters of at least one font, which includes memory having a plurality of memory addresses for storing instructions and encoded character font data representing fixed-width and compressed characters, wherein the encoded character font data for a fixed-width character of any given font is identical to the encoded character font data for a compressed character for the same font. The system addresses the plurality of memory addresses so as to read out the encoded character font data and then, depending upon the value of a control signal generated by the system's control unit, decodes the encoded character font data through a decoder as either a fixed-width or compressed character. The fixed-width or compressed character is then displayed on a dot-matrix display. Each memory address commonly contains a plurality of bits which represents a column of said character.

Abstract: An on-screen display circuit of the interlaced scanning type comprising a vertical counter for counting a horizontal synchronous signal inputted thereto and outputting the counted values as higher-order bits of a vertical address, a 1-bit counter for counting a vertical synchronous signal inputted thereto by one bit and outputting the counted value as a least significant bit of the vertical address, a vertical decoder for decoding output signals from the vertical counter and the 1-bit counter to designate a decoded vertical address, a character decoder for decoding a character address inputted thereto to designate a decoded horizontal address, and a font read only memory for outputting font data in its location corresponding to the decoded vertical address from the vertical decoder and the decoded horizontal address from the character decoder.

Abstract: A display having a letter portion and a background portion is displayed on a screen. One of the letters and backgrounds portion is displayed with a first color designated by color data stored in a memory, and the remaining one thereof is displayed with a second color which is determined by data obtained by inverting data of the first color.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying an image and characters superposed on the image comprising a synchronizing signal dividing unit for dividing the frequency of an input synchronizing signal to generate a divided synchronizing signal, a character generating unit for generating, in response to the divided synchronizing signal, characters to be superposed on the image, and a character speed converting unit for converting the speed of the characters generated by the character generating unit, thereby the number of characters outputted from the character speed converting means in one synchronization period is made to be substantially constant regardless of the frequency of the input synchronizing signal.

Abstract: The invention method and apparatus employs font metrics data related to font bitmaps for characters of a desired font. Position offsets of pieces in composite characters are read from the font metrics data and are converted to the appropriate pixel offset to adjust the bitmaps of subject compressed font characters. The adjusted bitmaps of the different pieces of a subject composite character are combined to form a working bitmap which represents each piece of the composite character in full size in the subject font. Screen display of composite characters decompressed to full-size is supported by the formed working bitmaps.

Abstract: The system for generating dot signals corresponding to a character pattern on the basis of outline information of a character pattern described by only straight lines comprises a section 6 for deciding end points of straight lines constituting outlines on the basis of the outline information. In response to end point information decided by this section 6, a DDA calculating section 7 continuously generates information indicative of a pair of points constituting two straight lines, respectively in such a way that two straight lines can be extended from one end point selected from the decided end points toward two end points adjacent thereto. The generated information indicative of a pair of points is inputted to a straight line generating section 8 for generating a straight line composed of dot signals between a pair of the points. These dot signals correspond to a character pattern.

Abstract: There is provided a flat panel display control device which has the compatibility with CRT display and the function of displaying each character with plurality of dots. A flat panel display apparatus incorporating a video memory (3) for storing the character code and the attribute code data, a character generator (6) for generating a character font data correspondent to the said character code, an attribute register (11) for connecting to the said video memory and for latching the said attribute code, and an attribute control means for modifying the attribute code supplied through the said attribute register according to the necessity and for attribute-processing the character font data generated by the said character generator according to the modified data.