Agfa announces implementation of Universal Font Scaling Technology in new interactive television operating system; Microware's DAVID v2.X Operating System users to benefit from Agfa's high quality antialiased scalable font technology.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1995--Agfa Division of Bayer Corporation announced the implementation of its Universal Font Scaling Technology (UFST UFST Universal Font Scaling Technology ) in Microware Systems Corporation's DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. today at the Western Show '95. The addition of Agfa's UFST technology will, for the first time, introduce high quality, antialiased scalable fonts to the DAVID operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , the current standard for interactive television (ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). ). DAVID v2.X gives the ITV industry the ability to author an application once, store it on any server, send it across any broadband network and run it on any DAVID-based digital network device. "Agfa's UFST technology represents a powerful OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and solution in today's new media environment," said Bob Givens, vice president of Typographic Systems, Agfa Division. "This state-of-the-art font scaling technology will provide type solutions for many players in the ITV industry, including set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. manufacturers, TV authoring tool vendors and content providers." Steve Johnson Steve Johnson is the name of:
Agfa will implement UFST and a set of Agfa typefaces specifically for the v2.X of Microware's DAVID operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . ITV decoders used in telephone, cable TV, and wireless networks will be able to take advantage of fully scalable antialiased fonts as a system resource. UFST will take advantage of DAVID's MAUI (Multimedia Application User Interface), a high speed hardware independent open graphics interface. The ability to access scalable fonts directly from the OS/9 operating system represents a significant enhancement to the traditional methods involving static, hand-edited bitmaps. Dynamic background, video, etc. can be stored once in a set-top while text is downloaded from Media Servers as an ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. stream, making the entire process more efficient. Microware's UPLINK and ITEM add-on modules will allow compatibility with industry standard downloadable fonts and/or typefaces delivered on PCMCIA cards. Agfa's UFST/MicroType -- Solutions for Interactive Television Afga's UFST subsystem has been implemented by many hardware and software vendors requiring a more dynamic text solution. UFST renders legible text on NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. display screens from any of the industry standard font formats; Microsoft and Apple TrueType and Adobe Type 1, including support of double-byte character sets including Japanese, Korean, and other languages. MicroType is Agfa's patented font compression technology and part of the UFST rasterizer. Fully compatible with all font technology standards, MicroType incorporates the fastest font generation speed with up to 6:1 compression over standard TrueType fonts without compromising integrity of typeface designs. Because of this significant font compression, ITV set-top box developers will be able to enhance their graphics display capability without sacrificing ROM/RAM space or performance. UFST utilizes grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in algorithms developed by Agfa to address the technical limitations of analog and video broadcast signals and TV displays. Dynamic imaging of grayscale glyphs is important because developers are no longer required to spend excessive time and resources hand tuning bitmap fonts for high quality, low resolution TV screens. Agfa has spent considerable time on the development of a well-recognized type library consisting of thousands of Latin and non-Latin typefaces. Agfa works with many of the world's leading type designers, and has the largest internal type design group in the industry. ITV content providers and creative directors will now have the same type flexibility and creative input they have enjoyed in other information delivery mediums. The Agfa-Gevaert Group is a leading worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems, with annual worldwide sales of $4.5 billion. Agfa-Gevaert manufactures and markets products and systems for the electronic and photographic prepress, medical and technical diagnostic, and amateur and professional photographic markets. Headquartered in Europe, Agfa-Gevaert is wholly owned by Bayer AG. In the United States, Agfa operates as a division of Bayer Corporation, with headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 12,873 at the 2000 census. Out of 566 municipalities statewide, Ridgefield Park is only one of four villages in New Jersey, joining Loch Arbour, Ridgewood and South Orange. . Bayer, headquartered in Pittsburgh, has major businesses in chemicals, health care and imaging technologies. Bayer employs 22,000 people and had sales of $7.1 billion in 1994. -0- Note to Editors: Universal Font Scaling Technology and UFST are registered trademarks of Bayer Corporation, Agfa Division. MicroType is a trademark of Bayer Corporation, Agfa Division. TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Agfa Division, Bayer Corporation Greg Porell, 508/658-5600 or Bodeur & Partners Simon Dibb/Dan Schutt, 617/622-2800 |
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