Patent ID: 7436989

Claim:
A method for representing in an image format a signature stored in a digitized signature record format wherein the signature is represented in a sequence of strokes each having a starting point and an end mark, and wherein locations of points of each stroke are coded as differences in location from either the starting point or an immediately previous point of the stroke, the method comprising: (a) reading a point location from the digitized signature record; (b) determining whether the read point location is the starting point of a stroke; (c) if the read point location is the starting point of a stroke, then: setting a pixel in the image format located at the location of the read point to a display value, storing the pixel location and display value in the image format, and returning to step (a) for reading the next point location until an end mark is reached; (d) if the read point location is not the starting point of a stroke, then: setting a line of pixels in the image format located in locations from the read point location of the previous read point to the read point location of the present read point to a display value, storing the pixel locations and display values of the line of pixels in the image format, and returning to step (a) for reading the next point location until an end mark is reached; (e) repeating steps (a) through (d) for all of the strokes of the signature.