Personalized computer fonts
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorJames Edward Dickens
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Abstract
A system and method for creating a personalized font allow a user to write characters as they should appear when used within a word processing document. A sheet having a grid is printed. The grid includes a blank space and an indication of the character that should be written in the blank space. The user writes in the characters on the sheet and then scans the sheet to digitize the characters. A computer system then analyzes the scan to extract each character as written and associate the extracted character with the appropriate character of a character set. The digitized and associated character data is then saved as a font that may be used by word processing programs.
Claims14
A computer system for creating a font, comprising:
- a sheet having a grid pattern, the grid pattern providing blank spaces with an indication of a character associated with each blank space, the blank spaces containing hand-written characters, the sheet having a first set of registration marks and a second set of registration marks, the first set of registration marks differing in number from the second set of registration marks, wherein the first set of registration marks are spaced apart from and similarly oriented as the second set of registration marks;
- a scanner that digitizes the hand-written characters, wherein the first and second sets of registration marks aid in automatically, digitally orienting the sheet in the scanner;
- a processor in communication with the scanner, the processor being configured to receive the digitized characters from the scanner, associate the digitized characters with the characters of a character set based upon the position of the written characters on the sheet, and store the associated and digitized characters as a font.
A computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions which when executed by a computing device provides a method for creating a font, wherein the method comprises:
- scanning a sheet having a first set of registration marks and a second set of registration marks, the first set of registration marks differing in number from the second set of registration marks, wherein the first set of registration marks are spaced apart from and similarly oriented as the second set of registration marks to digitize written characters on the sheet, the sheet having a grid pattern that provides blank spaces with an indication of the character associated with each blank space and wherein the written characters are positioned within the blank spaces, the first and second sets of registration marks assisting to automatically, digitally orient the sheet when scanning;
- associating the digitized characters with the corresponding characters of a character set according to the position of the written characters on the sheet;
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- storing the associated and digitized characters as a font.
A computer system operable to create a font, the computer system comprising:
- a sheet having a pattern, the pattern including blank spaces with an indication of a character associated with each blank space, wherein one or more of the blank spaces contain hand-written characters, the sheet further including a first set of registration marks and a second set of registration marks, the first set of registration marks spaced apart from and differing from the second set of registration marks;
- a scanner operable to extract and digitize the hand-written characters, wherein the first and second sets of registration marks aid in automatically, digitally orienting the sheet in the scanner and the first set of registration marks are encountered first in a left to right scan;
- a processor in communication with the scanner, the processor being configured to receive the digitized characters from the scanner, associate the digitized characters with the characters of a character set based upon the position of the written characters on the sheet, and store the associated and digitized characters as a font.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.