US 9,002,877 B2Granted

Quick font match

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsXing W. Fu, Yan M. Jia, Jing Lai, Hai F. Zhang, Jian F. Zhang

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Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a font match technology, and in particular relate to a technology for performing font match with attribute values of a font. A method for font matching may include generating a two-dimensional link matrix based on available fonts and attribute values of the available fonts, receiving a font match query, and determining a font matching the received font match query from the available fonts by using the two-dimensional link matrix. Font matching may be implemented automatically, quickly, and accurately, without the need of manually randomly trying each font of a plurality of available fonts. Meanwhile, this method is independent from text processing software and may be called by any arbitrary text processing software (application). Moreover, this method allows the user to flexibly configure selection of the font attributes so as to perform font match more efficiently.

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Dependent claims

A method for determining a suitable font for displaying text, comprising:

generating a two-dimensional link matrix to link a plurality of available fonts for displaying text each identified in the matrix with one or more font attributes identified in the matrix via one or more attribute values identified in the matrix;
receiving a font match query to determine a suitable font for text to be displayed from the plurality of available fonts including one or more specified attribute-attribute value pairs;
and
determining one or more fonts satisfying the received font match query from the available fonts based on a match between the one or more specified attribute-attribute value pairs and the one or more attribute values of the two-dimensional link matrix to determine which font can correctly display the text wherein determining the one or more fonts satisfying the received font match query further comprises:
retrieving the two-dimensional link matrix for one or more of the attribute-attribute value pairs in the font match query to generate a set of fonts returned results, wherein the set of fonts returned results includes a list of fonts that can correctly display the text corresponding to the font match query.

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A system for determining a suitable font for displaying text, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;
matrix generating means for generating a two-dimensional link matrix to link a plurality of available fonts for displaying text each identified in the matrix with one or more font attributes identified in the matrix via one or more attribute values identified in the matrix;
receiving means for receiving a font match query to determine a suitable font for text to be displayed from the plurality of available fonts including one or more specified attribute-attribute value pairs;
and
font match determining means for determining a font satisfying the received font match query from the available fonts based on a match between the one or more specified attribute-attribute value pairs and the one or more attribute values of the two-dimensional link matrix to determine which font can correctly display the text wherein the font match determining means is further configured to:
retrieve the two-dimensional link matrix for one or more of the attribute-attribute value pairs in the font match query to generate a set of fonts returned results.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.