Patent ID: 9025909
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A machine-implemented method of extending a character, the method comprising: receiving a character comprising a set of graphical data that defines a shape of the character; automatically analyzing the set of graphical data that defines the shape of the character to identify a set of sections of the character that are parallel to an axis of the character and a set of sections of the character that are not parallel to the axis of the character; for at least one particular parallel section, concatenating the particular parallel section with a set of non-parallel sections based on relative lengths of the particular parallel section to the other parallel sections of the character, to generate a single non-parallel section; and displaying an extended version of the character by increasing a length of at least one parallel section of the set of parallel sections of the character and adjusting the position of at least one non-parallel section of the character based on the increase in the length of the parallel section of the character, without modifying a size of the non-parallel section of the character in any direction.