JP3138546B2 - How to create user characters - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for creating user characters, and more particularly to a method for creating one user character in a plurality of character sizes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional user character creation method, when one user character is created in a plurality of character sizes, the user character is created from scratch by manually inputting each character size, or registered in a certain character size. The user's character was converted to the character size required by the creator, and then manually corrected to make the character look good.

[0003]

In the above-described conventional user character creation method, when enlargement or reduction is performed based on coarse character information of dots registered in an existing character size, the enlargement or reduction is performed. As a result, in many cases, the information is not the same as before conversion, such as characters appearing to be crushed in appearance, and require manual correction by the user,
There was a problem that productivity was low.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a user statement.
For systems that enlarge or reduce characters to multiple character sizes
First, in the method of creating user characters in
Calculate the ratio of the number of dots to the number of dots after conversion
Calculate the number of dots of read information before conversion
The number of dots in the read information for one dot after the conversion is
If more than 50% ON, turn on the converted dot
(Step 1), and further assign the dots
Up and down half the number of dots before conversion for one dot after conversion
To the read information for one dot after the conversion.
If the number of dots is more than 50% ON,
Turn on the converted dot on the side with the larger number (step
2) Then, assign the dots to one dot after the conversion.
Half of the number of dots before conversion
The number of dots in the read information for one dot is 50
If it is ON for more than a cent, the converted
Switch on (step 3), and then
1. The three types of dots of step 2 and step 3
The information is synthesized by OR.

[0005]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart of the dot conversion section 4 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of read information used for explaining the operation of the dot conversion section 4. 4, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing information when the process 21 in FIG. 2 is performed on the information in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing information when the process 23 in FIG. 2 is performed on the information in FIG. 3, and FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing information when the process 30 in FIG. 2 is performed on the information in FIG. 3, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing information when the process 32 in FIG. 2 is performed on the information in FIG.

(Function) The input device 1-1 reads a user character to be registered as high-density dot information. The input device I1-2 includes a character code of a user character to be registered,
Enter the font size.

The input reading unit 2 reads information from the input device A1-1 and the input device A1-2 when it is input, and outputs the read information to the control unit 5 described later. At the same time, it outputs the read completion information to the information analysis unit 3 described later.

The information analyzing section 3 has a function for analyzing user character information created as high-density dot information. More specifically, ON and OFF are checked in dot units based on the read information for one character, a square is drawn with the maximum length of the dot ON portion, and the number of dots on one side of the character is calculated. At this time, even if a portion that does not need to be recognized as a part of the character due to dirt or the like is recognized as the dot ON, the correction is performed based on the size of the cluster and the arrangement viewed from the whole. The analyzed information is output to the control unit 5 described later, and the analysis completion information is output to the dot conversion unit 4 described later.

The dot conversion section 4 converts high-density dot information of the user character to be registered in the memory 6 into the number of dots corresponding to the character size. The converted dot information is output to the control unit 5, and the conversion completion information is output to the file access unit 7 described later.

The control section 5 has a function of controlling information registered in the memory 6. The file access unit 7 refers to the character code and the character size to the converted dot information output from the dot conversion unit 4 to the control unit 5 while referring to the character code and the character size.
And outputs a registration process completion notification to an output unit 9 described later.

The output unit 9 has a function of outputting the registered user character, character code, and character size to the output device 10, outputs output processing end information to the control unit 5, Clear the previous area.

(Operation) Next, the operation of the embodiment centering on the dot conversion unit 4 will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, a user character to be registered is inputted by the input device 1-1, and a character code and a character size of the user character to be registered are inputted by the input device 1-2. The input information is stored in the memory 6 via the input reading unit 2 in FIG.

Of the input information stored in the memory 6,
The number of dots on one side of the user character input from the input device A 1-1 is calculated by the information analysis unit 3, and the dot information of the read user character is converted into dot information corresponding to the character size by the dot conversion unit 4. Is done. This conversion method will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, the processing 21 shown in FIG. 2 is performed to determine the ratio between the number of dots before conversion and the number of dots after conversion, and to determine the number of dots of read information before conversion with respect to one dot after conversion. Next, if the dot number of the read information for one dot after conversion is ON by 50% or more in the process 22 of FIG.
To turn on the converted dots. Further, in order to improve the character accuracy after the conversion, the dot allocation is moved up and down by half the number of dots before the conversion for one dot after the conversion in the process 24, and the read information for the one dot after the conversion is processed in the process 25. If the number of dots is ON by 50% or more, the converted dots on the upper and lower sides in process 26 are turned ON. If the number of dots of the read information for one dot after the conversion in process 28 is ON by 50% or more under the same conditions in process 27, the converted dots on the left and right sides in process 29 are turned on in process 29. To Next, processing 30
And the above three types of dot information are combined by OR. Finally, processing 31 and processing 32 are performed to compare the dot information after conversion to the number of dots before conversion with high-density dot information before conversion. As a result of the comparison, for example, an independent point (for example, the first stroke on the left end in the case of the character "heart") is adjacent to the line (the second stroke in the case of the character "heart")
If it is in a state of touching, a correction process 33 such as opening one dot between them is performed.

The converted dot information is stored in the external storage device 8 through the file access unit 7, and the user character is registered.

The registered character information is output to an output device 10 through an output unit 9 as a user character, a character code, and a character size.

Next, the operation of the dot conversion unit will be described with reference to FIGS. here,
It is assumed that the characters in FIG. 3 are information read through the reading means.

First, processing 21 shown in FIG. 2 is performed. In this example, since the read information is 72 × 72 dots and the information to be registered is 24 × 24 dots, as shown in FIG. A total of nine horizontal three dots correspond to one dot after conversion.

Next, in step 22, it is determined whether or not half or more of the nine dots (4.5 dots or more) in FIG. 4 are ON, and in step 23, the information shown in FIG. 5 is created.

Further, by changing the read information by half in the processing information 24 and then moving up or down by one half of one dot, for example, 50% or more of the dots in the horizontal 10, vertical 20, 21 in FIG. Looking at this information in detail, the horizontal 10 and vertical 20 in FIG. 4 are 4 dots ON, and the horizontal 10 and vertical 21 are 2 dots ON. Therefore, the dot information after conversion corresponding to the horizontal 10 and vertical 20 in FIG. Turn ON. In the process 27, for example, the horizontal 17 and the vertical 7 in FIG. 4 are targeted. However, since the horizontal 18 and the vertical 7 have a larger number of dots, these dots are turned ON.

FIG. 6 shows the result of performing the process 30 of FIG.

Finally, in the process 32 of FIG. 2, when the information obtained by enlarging the converted information to the number of dots of the read information and FIG. 3 of the read information are compared, they have substantially the same information. In this case, no special correction is made. as a result,
The information in FIG. 6 is the information created by the dot conversion unit.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, the user character to be registered is read as high-density dot information, and the ambiguous part is clarified by a special operation. In this case, the same information as before conversion can be obtained, which eliminates the need for manual correction by the user after conversion, and has the effect of improving productivity.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart of a dot conversion unit 4 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of read information of a dot conversion unit 4 according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing information when processing 21 of FIG. 2 is performed on the information of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing information when processing 23 of FIG. 2 is performed on the information of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing information when the process 30 of FIG. 2 is performed on the information of FIG. 3;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing information when the process 32 of FIG. 2 is performed on the information of FIG. 6;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-1 Input device A 1-2 Input device A 2 Input reading unit 3 Information analysis unit 4 Dot conversion unit 5 Control unit 6 Memory 7 File access unit 8 External storage device 9 Output unit 10 Output device

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-3-257590 (JP, A) JP-A-2-291058 (JP, A) JP-A-2-123460 (JP, A) JP-A-63-1988 282787 (JP, A) JP-A-63-249892 (JP, A) JP-A-62-151892 (JP, A) JP-A-61-275884 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. ⁷ , DB name) G09G 5/26 G06F 17/21

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] (1) Enlarging a user character to a plurality of character sizes or
Describes how to create user characters in a shrinking system.
First, the ratio of the number of dots before conversion to the number of dots after conversion
Determine the ratio and read information before conversion for one dot after conversion
Is obtained, and the reading for one dot after the conversion is obtained.
If the number of dots in the embedded information is 50% or more ON
Turn on the converted dots (step 1), and
Of the dots before the conversion for one dot after the conversion
Move half the number of dots up and down to one dot after the conversion
The number of dots in the read information is 50% or more O
If N, the converted dots on the upper and lower sides are set to O
N (step 2), and then change the dot assignment
Half of the number of dots before conversion for one dot after conversion
Move and read the read information for one dot after the conversion.
If the number of cuts is 50% or more, the left and right
Turn on the converted dot on the other side (step 3), and
The step 1, the step 2, and the step
Characterized in that the three types of dot information 3 are combined by OR.
How to create user characters.