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Monotype Imaging and TAKUMI to Unveil OpenVG Text Solution at ESEC Expo
Friday 05. June 2009 - Scalable Font Solution from Monotype Imaging Integrated In OpenVG Reference Design from TAKUMI
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, and TAKUMI Corp., a Tokyo-based supplier of graphics accelerator IP cores, will demonstrate TAKUMI’s OpenVG- and OpenGL ES-compliant GV500 core graphics accelerator technology integrated with Monotype Imaging’s iType font engine at the ESEC Expo in Tokyo, May 13-15, 2009, booth East 42-7. Demonstrations will feature a reference board running in an FPGA environment, with applications featuring 2D objects processed through the GV500 core, in addition to text objects rendered through Monotype Imaging’s scalable solution.
“Our partnership with TAKUMI is an important step toward ensuring high-quality, scalable text display in OpenVG environments,” said John Seguin, executive vice president of Monotype Imaging. “Hardware acceleration technologies such as OpenVG are becoming more prevalent as developers and manufacturers of mobile phones, gaming consoles and other devices aim to benefit from the performance and battery life advantages that these technologies offer. Together with TAKUMI, our goal is to blend these capabilities with the quality and legibility benefits our font solutions can bring to graphically intensive applications and user interfaces.”
“TAKUMI recognizes that text content is of high importance to Japanese manufacturers in the context of hardware accelerated rendering,” said Osamu Shigenami, president and chief executive officer of TAKUMI. “Our partnership with Monotype Imaging will allow us to provide the highest quality in text support while bringing the benefits of hardware rendering to our customers. Thanks to the quality and ease of adaptability of Monotype Imaging’s solution, which includes OpenVG-compliant APIs, as well as the company’s global presence and customer support, we view Monotype Imaging as a preferred vendor for pre-tested, fully integrated font solutions.”
Monotype Imaging and TAKUMI are contributing members of the Khronos Group, a member-funded industry consortium focused on the creation of open standards, including the OpenVG specification, which enables the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. The OpenVG standard defines a low-level hardware acceleration layer for vector graphics libraries and supports scalable, 2D vector graphics applications and text engines. As a cross-platform API, OpenVG is targeted primarily at handheld devices requiring portable acceleration of high-quality vector graphics for user interfaces and text on small screens.
TAKUMI GV500 graphics accelerator IP core
GV500 is a 3D graphics accelerator intellectual property core that also has 2D vector graphics rendering functions. The technology enables scalable 2D rendering such as lines, curves, and fill within graphically rich environments, such as mapping applications. GV500 core technology conforms to both OpenVG1.1 and OpenGL ES1.1 standard APIs.
Monotype Imaging iType font engine
Monotype Imaging’s iType scalable font engine enables device manufacturers and developers to build products that clearly display text based on outline or stroke font data. In addition to proprietary innovations such as the company’s SmartHint technology for displaying East Asian text using stroke-based fonts, iType supports TrueType fonts, the company’s CATT (Compact Asian for TrueType Technology) fonts, stroke fonts, bitmaps, embedded bitmaps, font subsets, custom fonts and linked fonts. iType also supports the company’s Edge Technology and Edge-enhanced fonts, a solution designed to enable the display of superior quality, typographically rich East Asian text within memory-constrained devices.