Patent ID: 7965398

Claim:
A character rendering device comprising: an internal storage unit including a plurality of storage areas; a first bus connected through an external bus to an external storage unit storing one or more character shape data sets, each of the one or more character shape data sets expressing a shape of a character; a second bus connected to the internal storage unit; a controller that specifies one of the plurality of storage areas; a first rendering unit connected to the first and second buses, that renders a character shape of a character on a basis of one of the one or more character shape data sets, that is supplied through the external bus and the first bus, and writes through the second bus the rendered character shape into one of the plurality of storage areas specified by the controller; a second rendering unit connected to the second bus, reads through the second bus, each time when writing of a character shape into one of the plurality of storage areas is completed by the first rendering unit, the character shape from one of the plurality of storage areas, and renders a character on a basis of the read character shape; and a transfer unit that transfers the character rendered by the second rendering unit.