JPH0320792A - Character generating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To generate beautiful characters with preferable appearence by ANDing image data, which can be clipped in he shape of the characters with the dot images of the characters and ORing these formed character patterns with the contour patterns of the characters. CONSTITUTION:The contour patterns 11 are stored in a contour pattern storing mechanism 1. The required number of the image patterns 21 whose pattern can be arbitrarily clipped in the shape of the characters are stored in an image data container mechanism 2. The character dot images 41 are stored by developing the contour patterns 1 into the dot images through a dot image forming mechanism 3 and stored in a character dot image storing mechanism 4. The dot images 61 of characters whose patterns are formed by an AND mechanism 5 ANDing the pattern 21 with the dot images 41 are stored in AND image storing mechanism 6. Moreover, dot images 81 are formed by an OR mechanism 7 ORing the dot images 61 to the contour pattern 11 and stored in an OR image storing mechanism 8. Thus formed dot images 81 can be made the beautiful characters with preferable appearence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a character generation method for display display and printer printing, and particularly to a character generation method for recombining the outlines of characters.

[Conventional technology]

The conventional character generation method creates a dot pattern of a character by filling in a closed area from the outline pattern of the character.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional character generation method described above draws the outline of the character from the character outline data and reproduces the character by filling in the closed area, so the inside of the character outline is a single filling pattern, and a wide variety of characters can be created. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to apply to fields such as design that deal with

[Means to solve the problem]

The character living system of the present invention includes an outline pattern storage mechanism having a pattern of the outline of a character, an image data storage mechanism having image data that can be clipped into the shape of a character, and a dot image of the character from the outline pattern of the character. a dot image creation machine to generate, an AND mechanism that takes an AND of the image data that can be clipped into the shape of a character, and a dot image of the character created from an outline pattern; and a character created by the AND mechanism. It has a disjunction mechanism that computes the disjunction between the pattern and the outline pattern of the character. [Example] Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a structural diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In Figure 1, the character living system consists of an outline pattern storage mechanism 1 that has prepared outline patterns for all characters, an image data storage mechanism 2 that stores patterns that can be clipped to the shape of characters, and outline patterns of characters. A dot image creation mechanism 3 that creates a dot image of a character from a dot image, a dot image storage mechanism 4 that stores a dot image of a character created by the dot image management mechanism 3, and a dot image storage mechanism 4 that stores dot images of characters created by the dot image management mechanism 3. A logical product mechanism 5 that performs a logical AND between the dot image of a character and the pattern image data stored in the image data storage mechanism 2, and a logical product image storage that stores the dot image of a character created by the logical product mechanism 5. A logical phase mechanism 7 which calculates the logical sum of the dot image of a character with a pattern stored in the logical product image storage mechanism 6 and the contour pattern stored in the contour pattern storage mechanism 1; Mechanism 7
The system is composed of a logical sum image storage mechanism 8 that stores dot images of characters with outlines created by the method, and the inside of the outline is drawn by a pattern. Figure 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of the above character generation method. In FIG. 2, the character writing system stores a character outline pattern 11 in an outline pattern storage mechanism 1. Further, the pattern image data storage device vj2, which can be arbitrarily clipped into the shape of a character, stores the required number of pattern image patterns 21. The character dot image storage mechanism 4 stores a character dot image 41 obtained by developing the character outline pattern 11 into a dot image via the dot image generator $lIl3.
Then, the logical product image storage mechanism 6 takes the logical product of the pattern pattern 21 and the dot image 41, and the dot image 61 of the character having a pattern is created by the logical product mechanism 5.
Store.

Furthermore, the logical sum image storage mechanism 8 stores the dot image 81 created by the logical sum mechanism 7 which performs the logical sum of the dot image 61 of a character having a pattern and the outline pattern 11 of the character. The character dot image 81 created in this way has clear character outlines,
Looks beautiful. Furthermore, the inside of the outline of the character can be drawn in any pattern depending on the situation of the character, resulting in a character with a very good appearance.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention has a mechanism that has a character outline pattern, a mechanism that has image data of a pattern that can be clipped to the shape of a character, a mechanism that creates a dot image of a character from a character outline pattern, and a mechanism that can be clipped to the shape of a character. By providing a mechanism to logically AND the image data and the character dot image created from the outline pattern, and a mechanism to logically OR the character pattern created by the logical product and the character outline pattern, it is possible to create a beautiful appearance. It has the effect of generating certain characters.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a character generation method according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation. 1... Contour pattern storage mechanism, 2... Image data storage mechanism, 3... Dot image creation mechanism, 4...
・Dot image storage mechanism, 5... Logical product mechanism, 6.
...Logical product image storage mechanism, 7...Logical sum! ! ! U
Structure, 8... Logical OR image storage mechanism.

Claims (1)

[Claims] an outline pattern storage mechanism having a character outline pattern;
an image data storage mechanism that has image data that can be clipped to the shape of a character; a dot image creation mechanism that creates a dot image of the character from an outline pattern of the character; and a dot image creation mechanism that creates a dot image of the character from the outline pattern of the character; and a logical AND mechanism that performs a logical product with a dot image of the character, and a logical OR mechanism that performs a logical OR between the character pattern created by the logical product mechanism and the outline pattern of the character. Character generation method.