| US 7,362,898 B2 | ||
| Scalable stroke font system and method | ||
| Vadim Fux, Waterloo (Canada); and Denis N. Fedotenko, Waterloo (Canada) | ||
| Assigned to Research In Motion Limited, Waterloo (Canada) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 26, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/828,588. | ||
| Application 11/828588 is a continuation of application No. 10/610227, filed on Jun. 30, 2003, granted, now 7,251,365. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/400373, filed on Jul. 31, 2002. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/393795, filed on Jul. 03, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0262993 A1, Nov. 15, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/18 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—185 [382/224; 345/467; 715/542] | 33 Claims |
| 18. A method of creating font format data from source font data, comprising:
analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs;
dissecting the glyph data;
extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data;
classifying the midline data as unique element data and common element data; and
associating the unique element data and the common element data to each glyph of the plurality of glyphs.
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