Patent ID: 7006096

Claim:
A character display apparatus, comprising: a display device having a plurality of pixels; and a control section for controlling the display device, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a predetermined direction, one of a plurality of color elements being pre-assigned to each of the plurality of sub-pixels; the control section: acquires a first bit map which represents a basic portion of a character, performs predetermined conversion of the first bit map so as to generate a second bit map which represents a basic portion of an italic character, and sets the intensity of a color element of at least one specific sub-pixel corresponding to the basic portion of the italic character to a predetermined value and sets the intensity of at least one sub-pixel adjacent to the at least one specific sub-pixel corresponding to the basic portion of the italic character to a value different from the predetermined value based on the second bit map so as to display the italic character on the display device; dots which form the first bit map correspond to the plurality of sub-pixels in a one-to-one manner; dots which form the second bit map correspond to the plurality of sub-pixels in a one-to-one manner; and the second bit map is generated from the first bit map by shifting each dot forming the first bit map by a shift amount which is in proportion to a distance from a reference line running along the predetermined direction set in the first bit map to a dot.