Patent ID: 6496191
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
A method of character font generation comprising the steps of:determining whether a character can be output in a desired font to an output unit having a predetermined resolution, prioritizing a plurality of strokes of the character for omission, and omitting one of said plurality of strokes of said character based upon the determined priority, so as to make the character a permissible size according to said predetermined resolution, in response to determining that the character cannot be output, wherein the omission is performed so as to maintain balance and preserve a shape of the character, wherein said step of omitting includes: reducing the character until each stroke of the character comes into contact with another stroke, a circumscribing frame surrounding a body size area of the character and a splitting frame splitting said body size area into a plurality of character areas based on a structure of the character; and generating a character area balance database including ratios of a size of said splitting frame to a size of said circumscribing frame and contact information regarding a manner of contact of a stroke, with each line of splitting frame in each of said splitting frame for each of said character areas being based on a reduction result of said reduction step wherein the stroke of the character that is to be omitted is determined based on said contact information, and the stroke is omitted until a size of the character becomes the permissible output size, with said ratios of each character area in said character area balance database being maintained.