CA1162319A - Video processor and controller - Google Patents

Video processor and controller

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Publication number
CA1162319A
CA1162319A CA000380700A CA380700A CA1162319A CA 1162319 A CA1162319 A CA 1162319A CA 000380700 A CA000380700 A CA 000380700A CA 380700 A CA380700 A CA 380700A CA 1162319 A CA1162319 A CA 1162319A
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Prior art keywords
data
row
memory
video
address
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CA000380700A
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English (en)
French (fr)
Inventor
John F. Tweedy, Jr.
Morton B. Herman
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Standard Microsystems LLC
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Standard Microsystems LLC
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/001Arbitration of resources in a display system, e.g. control of access to frame buffer by video controller and/or main processor
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/14Display of multiple viewports
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/22Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory
    • G09G5/222Control of the character-code memory
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/22Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory
    • G09G5/30Control of display attribute
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/34Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators for rolling or scrolling
    • G09G5/343Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators for rolling or scrolling for systems having a character code-mapped display memory
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09GARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/36Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
    • G09G5/39Control of the bit-mapped memory

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Controls And Circuits For Display Device (AREA)
  • Digital Computer Display Output (AREA)
CA000380700A 1980-10-06 1981-06-26 Video processor and controller Expired CA1162319A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US19443580A 1980-10-06 1980-10-06
US194,435 1988-05-13

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CA1162319A true CA1162319A (en) 1984-02-14

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JP (1) JPS5792378A (enExample)
CA (1) CA1162319A (enExample)
DE (1) DE3130460A1 (enExample)
FR (1) FR2491651A1 (enExample)
GB (1) GB2084836B (enExample)
IT (1) IT1167999B (enExample)

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GB2130855B (en) * 1982-11-03 1986-06-04 Ferranti Plc Information display system
DE3319944A1 (de) * 1983-06-01 1984-12-06 Siemens AG, 1000 Berlin und 8000 München Einrichtung zum schreib-lese-betrieb eines bildspeichers
GB2146208B (en) * 1983-09-01 1987-10-14 Philips Electronic Associated Character display arrangement with stack-coded-to-explicit attribute conversion
GB2145910B (en) * 1983-09-01 1987-10-07 Philips Electronic Associated Data display arrangement with scrolling
IT1162945B (it) * 1983-09-30 1987-04-01 Olivetti & Co Spa Apparecchiatura di visualizzazione di immagini definite da una pluralita di righe di dati
CA1243138A (en) * 1984-03-09 1988-10-11 Masahiro Kodama High speed memory access circuit of crt display unit
JPS61151592A (ja) * 1984-12-20 1986-07-10 インタ−ナショナル ビジネス マシ−ンズ コ−ポレ−ション 表示装置
DE3501673A1 (de) * 1985-01-19 1986-07-24 Standard Elektrik Lorenz Ag, 7000 Stuttgart Oeffentliches bildschirmtextendgeraet
DE3783358T2 (de) * 1987-03-20 1993-07-01 Ibm Rechnersystem mit einem videosubsystem.
US5101196A (en) * 1988-11-10 1992-03-31 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. Display device for microcomputer

Family Cites Families (5)

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JPS5052945A (enExample) * 1973-09-10 1975-05-10
US3972026A (en) * 1974-09-23 1976-07-27 Hewlett-Packard Company Linked list encoding method and control apparatus for refreshing a cathode ray tube display
JPS585432B2 (ja) * 1975-05-06 1983-01-31 ソニー株式会社 ガゾウヒヨウジソウチ
DE2922540C2 (de) * 1978-06-02 1985-10-24 Hitachi, Ltd., Tokio/Tokyo Datenverarbeitungsanlage
CA1141863A (en) * 1979-04-30 1983-02-22 Joseph L. Ryan Hardware/firmware crt display link system

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FR2491651A1 (fr) 1982-04-09
GB2084836B (en) 1984-05-23
JPS5792378A (en) 1982-06-08
IT8109536A0 (it) 1981-10-05
JPH0259473B2 (enExample) 1990-12-12
IT1167999B (it) 1987-05-20
GB2084836A (en) 1982-04-15
FR2491651B3 (enExample) 1984-04-27
DE3130460A1 (de) 1982-05-27

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