Re: [Devel] AntiAliasing Patents

[Changyuan Hu]

Two US patents from EPFL :

One for grayscale character
http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lsp/publications/patents/patent5796409.html

another for auto-kerning of grayscale characters
http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lsp/publications/patents/patent5768490.html

Changyuan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AK" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:13 AM
Subject: [Devel] AntiAliasing Patents


> Hello,
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that other than the 3 Apple patents noted on 
> your patent information page, a search of patents turned up no other 
> potential patent infringements for the creation or  use of  FreeType.
> 
> Are there any potential patent infringements in the use of AntiAliasing 
> or grayscale rendering of fonts? Do you know of any patents dealing 
> with this process?
> 
> If anyone has information about such patents, any information would be 
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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