Character display apparatus and character input apparatus

• Main Authors: KANDA MIWA, KOBAYASHI HIROSHI, UNNO TERUHIKO, KUREBAYASHI SHIGEYUKI, TSUKUDA HIDEYUKI, WATANABE KENJI, SUETANI TAKUYA, OGAWA KIYOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.08.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; DISPLAY; DISPLAYING; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; LINING MACHINES; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SEALS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SIGNS; STAMPS; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

The character display apparatus according to the present invention has a constitution including (1) character display means having at least a character segment in the shape of a character, and a background segment provided around the character segment and constituting a background of an outline character; and (2) display control means for performing on-off control of the character segment and the background segment, which constitute the character display means.