Patent Document ID: 5426727
Application ID: 08161310
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A high-quality character generating system comprising: a first memory for storing outline fonts composed of character contour data; coordinate converting means, connected to said first memory, for converting coordinates of said character contour data into vector coordinates; contour coordinate generating means, connected to said coordinate converting means, for generating dot data corresponding to the contours of characters from said vector coordinates; sorting means, connected to said contour coordinate generating means, for sorting the dot data output from the contour coordinate generating means according to prescribed rules to generate sorted data; image drawing means, connected to said sorting means, for generating character data as dots from said sorted data; and a second memory for storing the character data as dots corresponding to the output from the image drawing means; wherein at least two of the coordinate converting means, the contour coordinate generating means, the sorting means, and the image drawing means each operate in parallel.