A language presentation device provided for conversation between a first user and a second user positioned facing each other across a transparent presentation unit. The language presentation device acquires a first speech uttered by at least one of the first user and the second user, acquires the content of the first speech and a translated content in which the content of the first speech is translated into a language suitable for the first user or the second user, and presents the content of the first speech and the translated content on the transparent presentation unit after horizontally flipping at least either of the two.

A language presentation device provided for conversation between a first user and a second user positioned facing each other across a transparent presentation unit. The language presentation device acquires a first speech uttered by at least one of the first user and the second user, acquires the content of the first speech and a translated content in which the content of the first speech is translated into a language suitable for the first user or the second user, and presents the content of the first speech and the translated content on the transparent presentation unit after horizontally flipping at least either of the two.

A beacon device is a mobile object having an AR marker provided on its surface which indicates an existing position of the beacon device in actual space and transmits a beacon signal including a beacon ID. A user communication device, which is a mobile object equipped with an imaging function, identifies the position of the beacon device by recognizing the AR marker in a live view image, receives the beacon signal transmitted from the beacon device, transmits the beacon ID to a server device and controls to display an object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the server device at the identified position of the beacon device in the live view image. The server device reads out the object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the user communication device from a character data file group and transmits that data to the user communication device.

A beacon device is a mobile object having an AR marker provided on its surface which indicates an existing position of the beacon device in actual space and transmits a beacon signal including a beacon ID. A user communication device, which is a mobile object equipped with an imaging function, identifies the position of the beacon device by recognizing the AR marker in a live view image, receives the beacon signal transmitted from the beacon device, transmits the beacon ID to a server device and controls to display an object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the server device at the identified position of the beacon device in the live view image. The server device reads out the object corresponding to the beacon ID transmitted from the user communication device from a character data file group and transmits that data to the user communication device.

Vector graphic font generation system implemented as part of a computing device is described. The system is configured to improve generate vector graphic font characters by detecting an object within a digital image, segmenting the digital image extract the facial region within the digital image, generating a vector graphic by converting a format of the segmented digital image into a scalable vector format, mapping the vector graphic with Unicode characters, and subsequently mapping the Unicode character with a glyph identifier. The vector graphic font generation system described herein enables the expression of a wide spectrum of emotions in numerous applications using font characters that precisely match the object, e.g., facial appearance of users as depicted in digital images.

An apparatus and method for generating font by means of METAFONT by using outline font are disclosed. The disclosed method for creating a Metafont font may be performed at an apparatus that includes a processor, where the method may include: (a) creating an intermediate code by adding an attribute for Metafont to a code of an outline font written in XML; and (b) creating the Metafont font by using information of points obtained by parsing the intermediate code.

An input display device includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, results in performance of steps including: acquiring a character string; receiving a touch drawing operation; detecting a state of the touch drawing operation; generating a track image showing the track, the track image having a line width corresponding to the state of the touch drawing operation; displaying the generated track image on a display; and superimposing the acquired character string on the displayed track image in accordance with a character size corresponding to the line width of the track image.

An input display device includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, results in performance of steps including: acquiring a character string; receiving a touch drawing operation; detecting a state of the touch drawing operation; generating a track image showing the track, the track image having a line width corresponding to the state of the touch drawing operation; displaying the generated track image on a display; and superimposing the acquired character string on the displayed track image in accordance with a character size corresponding to the line width of the track image.

Vector graphic font generation system implemented as part of a computing device is described. The system is configured to improve generate vector graphic font characters by detecting an object within a digital image, segmenting the digital image extract the facial region within the digital image, generating a vector graphic by converting a format of the segmented digital image into a scalable vector format, mapping the vector graphic with Unicode characters, and subsequently mapping the Unicode character with a glyph identifier. The vector graphic font generation system described herein enables the expression of a wide spectrum of emotions in numerous applications using font characters that precisely match the object, e.g., facial appearance of users as depicted in digital images.

An image generation device includes: a rasterizing portion generating, according string data, an element-blank image including a first element image indicating a first-type string element of a string and a blank image indicating a blank; an embedding portion identifying and embedding a second element image indicating a second-type string element of the string in the blank image; a first data storage portion in which a first data group used to generate the first element image is stored; and a second data storage portion in which a second data group including an image to be embedded as the second element image is stored. The rasterizing portion generates the first element image based on the first data group, and generates the blank image at a position where the second element image is to be embedded by identifying an embedding position of the second element image.