Patent ID: 6522330
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A character processing apparatus comprising:a font memory for storing therein fonts for at least representative characters among a group of different character shapes comprising representative characters and variant font characters thereof; a character information memory for storing therein storage address information or no-font information for each character code and for fonts corresponding to the character code, type information indicating whether the character code is for a representative character or for any variant font character thereof assigned to each character code, and group information for group numbers for character code among group numbers assigned to classified groups of character code, each character code group comprising a representative character and variant font characters thereof; a storage address output means for receiving an arbitrary character code, retrieving matching character code from the character information memory according to the received character code, referring to storage address information or no-font information corresponding to the retrieved character code, outputting, when there is storage address information, the storage address information, retrieving character code having an identical group number as that of the retrieved character code and also having type information for a representative character according to the type information as well as to the group information, and outputting storage address information for the character code; and a display device for inputting therein a corresponding font from the font memory according to the storage address information received from said storage address output means and displaying a character of said arbitrary character code on a screen.