Personalized ink font

• US 7,697,001 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2005
• Issued: 04/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Zhouchen
• Primary Examiner(s): Bali; Vikkram
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brooks; Julian D
• Application Number:
  US11/045,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,898 Days
• Field of Search: 382/186, 382/187, 382314-316, 382/189, 382/181, 382/185, 382/190, 382/203, 345/467, 345/468, 345/471, 345/472, 345/469.1, 345/472.1, 345/472.2, 345/25, 345/26, 345/173, 345/179
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention relate to the creation of an ink font. Based on characteristics of handwritten characters, the collection of characters may be scaled so as to adjust the size of the font to match predefined size values or relationships.

Claims

1. A process performed by a computer system with a processor and a memory for creating an ink font comprising the steps of:

outputting an indication of a first set of letters that a user is requested to handwrite, the indication identifying each letter of the first set of letters that the user is to handwrite;

displaying a first input region of a first size for the user to handwrite the indicated first set of letters, the first size being system defined;

receiving from the user via the first input region a first handwritten input corresponding to the indicated first set of letters that the user is requested to handwrite;

scaling by the computer system an input region based on the first handwritten input by analyzing the first handwritten input to determine a second size for a second input region for receiving handwritten input corresponding to a second set of letters;

outputting an indication of the second set of letters that the user is requested to handwrite the indication identifying each letter of the second set of letters that the user is to handwrite;

displaying the second input region of the second size for the user to handwrite the indicated second set of letters that the user is requested to handwrite;

receiving from the user via the second input region a second handwritten input corresponding to the indicated second set of letters;

creating by the computer system the ink font from the first and the second handwritten input so that when the user subsequently enters text, the created ink font is used to output the text as handwriting of the user.

2. The process according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

adjusting said ink font to comport with predetermined relationships of font spacings.

3. The process according to claim 1, wherein said receiving said first handwritten input step further comprises the step of receiving normal characters.

4. The process according to claim 1, wherein said receiving said second handwritten input step further comprises the step of receiving ascend characters.

5. The process according to claim 1, wherein said receiving said second handwritten input step further comprises the step of receiving descent characters.

6. A tangible computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for controlling a computer to input handwritten letters for creating an ink font, by a method comprising:

requesting a user to handwrite first letters of the font, each of the first letters that the user is to handwrite being identified by the requesting;

displaying a first input region of a first size for the user to handwrite first letters of the font as requested;

receiving from the user via the first input region a first handwritten input corresponding to the first letters;

analyzing the first handwritten input to determine a second size for a second input region for receiving handwritten input corresponding to second letters of the font, so that the second size is adapted to user'"'"'s handwriting for the user to input the second letters;

requesting a user to handwrite second letters of the font, each of the second letters that the user is to handwrite being identified by the requesting;

displaying the second input region of the second size for the user to handwrite the second letters as requested; and

receiving from the user via the second input region a second handwritten input corresponding to the second letters

so that the ink font for the first letters and the second letters is generated from the first handwritten input corresponding to the first letters and the second handwritten input corresponding to the second letters.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the first letters are middle zone letters.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 wherein the analyzing includes calculating an average height of a middle zone of the handwritten first letters and determining the second size such that a middle zone of the second input region corresponds to the calculated average height.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein each input region includes a box for each corresponding letter.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 including generating the ink font for the first letters and the second letters from the first handwritten input corresponding to the first letters and the second handwritten input corresponding to the second letters.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 including adjusting the generated ink font to comport with predetermined relationships of font spacings.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the first letters are normal characters and the second letters are ascend characters.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the first letters are normal characters and the second letters are descent characters.