Font library for interactive television recording and playback on a storage medium

A method ( 49, 55 ) of handling fonts in a recorder or a playback-recorder for interactive television. Fonts are stored on a recordable storage medium ( 220 ), wherein the fonts are part of a downloaded interactive television application. When recording, the downloaded fonts are stored separate from...

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Main Author TAN JINGWEI,KELLY DECLAN PATRICK,GAN LIANG,SHI JUN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.01.2006
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
INFORMATION STORAGE
INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Summary:A method ( 49, 55 ) of handling fonts in a recorder or a playback-recorder for interactive television. Fonts are stored on a recordable storage medium ( 220 ), wherein the fonts are part of a downloaded interactive television application. When recording, the downloaded fonts are stored separate from the application, preferably in a font library on the recordable storage medium, which preferably is a removable medium, preferably an optical storage medium. Each font is only stored in one copy, even when a plurality of applications on the storage medium need that font for running. When playing back the application from the storage medium, indicating information is provided on which fonts form the storage medium in the font library are required for playback of said application from said storage medium. Thus multiple storage of fonts is prevented, minimising needed storage space on the storage medium.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN200380106217