Segmentation of Arabic Letters on Dot Matrix Play Board

Because of the immense necessity of displaying short messages on electronic devices the segmented display system has become greatly popular. Numerous research activities are done to represent English and Bengali letters on segmented display. On the other hand, no research work is found till now for Arabic letters. This paper brings an accurate and systematic segmentation method for Arabic letters. The points covered by each segment, the segments needed for each letter, the truth table for the letter, simplified expressions and the logic circuits of the segments are given. In this paper, we have generated all the Arabic letters with understandable and proper shapes. Also, the segment-to-letter ratio is found to be less comparatively.