EP0073338A2 - Couleur du bord programmable pour un appareil à T.R.C. ou un récepteur de télévision couleur - Google Patents

Couleur du bord programmable pour un appareil à T.R.C. ou un récepteur de télévision couleur Download PDF

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EP0073338A2
EP0073338A2 EP82106659A EP82106659A EP0073338A2 EP 0073338 A2 EP0073338 A2 EP 0073338A2 EP 82106659 A EP82106659 A EP 82106659A EP 82106659 A EP82106659 A EP 82106659A EP 0073338 A2 EP0073338 A2 EP 0073338A2
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Mark Edward Dean
Lewis Clark Eggebrecht
David Allen Kummer
Jesus Andres Saenz
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/02—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed
    • G09G5/024—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed using colour registers, e.g. to control background, foreground, surface filling

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  • This invention relates generally to color television systems and, more particularly, to a circuit for independently controlling the color of only the border around the video area of the screen of a TV receiver or monitor employing a cathod ray tube (CRT) display device.
  • CTR cathod ray tube
  • a cathod ray tube display devices used to display alpha-numeric and graphic images in a data processing system, such as a small personal computer or computer-controlled TV game
  • the color of this border should be controlled independently of the color and data displayed in the video area of the CRT screen.
  • Controlling the color of the border around the video area of the display screen is different from controlling the color of the edge of an individual character (e.g. US Patent No. 3,984,828) or the color of the background of a displayed word (e.g. US Patent No. 3,911,418).
  • a 4-bit software-loadable border register is provided which will independently determine the color of only the border area around the video raster zone of the CRT in a conventional television receiver or monitor.
  • a border color control signal is enabled through the same multiplexer or color video control unit that provides the video (data and color) information supplied to the video area of the CRT screen, but this control signal is enabled at pre-defined time intervals during the scanning of the screen such that the color of the border, only, is completely independent of the video information displayed on the screen. Up to sixteen colors are available for the border.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram of a portion of a data processing system, such as a personal computer, in which alpha-numeric and graphic data, generated by a keyboard or other components of the system, are displayed on a cathode ray tube, such as a conventional television receiver or monitor.
  • a data processing system such as a personal computer
  • alpha-numeric and graphic data generated by a keyboard or other components of the system, are displayed on a cathode ray tube, such as a conventional television receiver or monitor.
  • a central processing unit (CPU) 10 is connected to a three- state system bus 12 including a 8-bit data bus.
  • a character such as one entered by a keyboard coupled to the bus, is to be displayed on the cathode ray tube (CRT) of a conventional TV receiver 14 designed in accordance with the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) standards.
  • a conventional CRT controller 16 such as a Motorola 6845 chip, controlled by CPU 10 via the bus 12, generates the CHARACTER ADDRESS on output line 18, CHARACTER SCAN on line 24, and the television frequency components on lines 20 and 22.
  • output line 22 There are produced on output line 22 the horizontal and vertical synchronizing pulses which are applied to a logic circuit ( Figure 2) and to a sync generator 26 which produces -SYNC and +BURST signals.
  • a DISPLAY ENABLE signal is produced on line 20, and the scanning pulses are produced on line 24 and applied to a character generator (ROM) 28.
  • ROM character generator
  • An 8-bit character code is fetched from a random access memory (RAM) 30 at the specified character address.
  • An 8-bit attribute code is also fetched, and four of these bits designate the color of the character to be displayed, i.e., the foreground color of the character, as opposed to the background color of the character.
  • the four character color bits are applied to a multiplexer (MUX) 32, such as a 74LS157 chip, which outputs the red (R), green (G), blue (B) and intensity (I) signals from which there is derived the composite video color signal to be applied to the TV receiver.
  • MUX multiplexer
  • Multiplexer 32 is under the control of the serial character dots from the 8-to-1 parallel-to-serial converter 34 connected to the output of the character generator 28.
  • the digital R, G, B and I signals on the output of multiplexer 32 are applied as inputs to a composite video generator 38 which produces the composite video color signal which can be used directly by a conventional composite monitor or, after being modulated by an R.F. modulator 13, by TV receiver 14 to display the colored character, or as inputs to the drivers 40 of a conventional direct drive TV monitor which operates directly from the R, G, B and I signals without the RF modulation required by the TV receiver 14, but which requires externally supplied synchronizing and blanking signals.
  • Figure 2 is a logic and schematic circuit diagram of the composite video generator 38 of Figure 1, and functions directly to convert the R, G, B and I digital color signals on the output of MUX 32 to a composite video color signal which can be utilized by the TV receiver 14 to display the character image having the color designated by a particular set of digital color signals.
  • a line is UP, i.e. has a logical value of 1 (+5 volts), when the indicated signal is present, and is DOWN, i.e. has the logical value of 0 (0 volt), when that signal does not exist.
  • the circuit of Figure 2 consists of three digital delay devices in the form of three 74LS74 edge-triggered D-type latches or flipflops 50, 52 and 54, each of which has a D input, a clock (CLK) input, a Q set output, and a Q reset output.
  • the outputs of the three latches are connected as six inputs to an 8-to-l 74LS151 multiplexer 56 to whose output Y are switched, under the control of digital color signals B, G, R applied to its SELECT terminals A, B and C, respectively, individual ones of the eight phase-shifted color subcarriers appearing on the eight inputs of the multiplexer.
  • the O input terminal of multiplexer 56 is grounded and represents the color black, and the white input is connected to +5 volts.
  • the S (strobe) terminal of the multiplexer chip 56 is not used and is grounded.
  • a 14.318 MHz clock signal from the system bus is applied to the CLK terminal of latches 50 and 52, and inverted and applied to the CLK terminal of latch 54.
  • the system clock signal is also divided by four in a frequency divider 58 to produce the 3.58 MHz (actually 3.5795) NTSC color subcarrier signal.
  • a delay of one clock period of the 14.318 MHz signal corresponds to a 90° phase shift of the 3.58 MHz subcarrier.
  • One-half of the 14.318 MHz clock period thus correspond to a 45° phase shift of the subcarrier.
  • the Q or 0° phase output of latch 50 is applied to the D input of latch 52, and the Q or 90° delay output of latch 52 is applied to the D input of latch 54.
  • the subcarrier signal is synchronized by the rising edges of the clock signal. Because of the inherent delay between the inputs and the outputs of such D-type latches, the zero phase output of latch 50, for example, will be slightly delayed from its D input. Thus, when the Q output of latch 50 is applied to the D input of latch 52, it will no be up for the first rising edge of the clock signal which is also applied to latch 52. Thus, the outputs of latch 52 will be delayed by ninety degrees relative to those of latch 50. Similarly, a 45° phase shift occurs between the outputs of latches 52 and 54; that is, when the Q output of latch 52 goes high, the Q output of latch 54 will go high one-half of the 14.318 MHz period later to produce the 45° phase shift. The same operation occurs for the Q outputs of latches 52 and 54.
  • the two outputs of latch or flip-flop 50 provide a 3.58 MHz color subcarrier signal at both, 0° phase shift (yellow, brown, burst) and also 180° phase shift (blue, brigth blue).
  • Latch 52 delays the 0° phase shift signal from latch 50 and provides a 3.58 MHz signal at 90° phase shift (red, pink) and at 270° phase shift (cyan, bright cyan).
  • Latch 54 delays the 90° phase shift signal from latch 52 by 45°, and its outputs provide a 3.58 MHz signal at 135° phase shift (magenta, bright magenta) and at 315° phase shift (green, bright green).
  • phase-shifted subcarriers at the output Y of multiplexer 56 are passed through a buffer 60 and a 2.2 K resistor to the summing node 62 connected to the base of an NPN emitter- follower transistor 64 whose emitter-resistor output contains the composite video color signal which is applied through R.F. modulator 13 to the input terminals of the TV receiver 14.
  • Also connected to summing node 62 via corresponding buffer 66, 68 and 69 and corresponding summing resistors having ohmic values of 3.3K, 13K and 4.7K are the -SYNC and -BLANK signals from the CRT controller 16 and the +INTENSITY (I) signal from the color video control circuit or multiplexer 32 of Figure 1.
  • the OR gates 70 and 72 are used to select the 3.58 MHz 0° phase shift signal during BURST time to provide the color burst signal.
  • the -SYNC signal is a composite of the horizontal and vertical synchronizing pulses. In the steady state condition, i.e. when the T.V. screen is black, the Y output is 0, -SYNC is 1, -BLANK is 1, and I is 0.
  • the CPU sends via the data bus a four bit data byte specifying the red, green, blue and intensity digital color signals for a particular one of the sixteen colors available for the border.
  • the intensity signal represents a D.C. level which is applied to the composite video signal generator 38 to provide the "brighter" versions of the eight basic colors as described in detail with reference to Figure 2.
  • the contents of the border register 36 are gated to the multiplexer 32 at BORDER COLOR TIME via the CRT CONTROLLER 16 at predetermined time intervals during the horizontal and vertical scannings of the screen, which intervals are illustrated in the timing diagram of Figure 4. As shown there, at each BORDER COLOR TIME 1 the border areas 1 of the screen are "painted" the designated color, and at each BORDER COLOR TIME 2 the border areas 2 are painted.
  • Figure 5 is a pictorial representation of a TV screen 44 illustrating the video area 42 and border area 40 and the portions of the border area which are painted at times 1 and 2.

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EP82106659A 1981-08-12 1982-07-23 Couleur du bord programmable pour un appareil à T.R.C. ou un récepteur de télévision couleur Ceased EP0073338A3 (fr)

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US06/292,074 US4442428A (en) 1981-08-12 1981-08-12 Composite video color signal generation from digital color signals
US292069 1981-08-12
US292074 1981-08-12
US06/292,069 US4437092A (en) 1981-08-12 1981-08-12 Color video display system having programmable border color

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FR2604019A1 (fr) * 1986-09-12 1988-03-18 Apple Computer Dispositif d'affichage video couleur pour systeme d'ordinateur, et procede de conversion de signaux video couleur a cet effet
FR2667969A1 (fr) * 1990-10-16 1992-04-17 Sextant Avionique Procede de coloriage sur un ecran a matrice de points.
EP0697678A1 (fr) * 1994-08-19 1996-02-21 Sextant Avionique Procédé de codage de mémoire image

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FR2604019A1 (fr) * 1986-09-12 1988-03-18 Apple Computer Dispositif d'affichage video couleur pour systeme d'ordinateur, et procede de conversion de signaux video couleur a cet effet
FR2667969A1 (fr) * 1990-10-16 1992-04-17 Sextant Avionique Procede de coloriage sur un ecran a matrice de points.
EP0481859A1 (fr) * 1990-10-16 1992-04-22 Sextant Avionique Procédé de coloriage sur un écran à matrice de points
WO1992007334A1 (fr) * 1990-10-16 1992-04-30 Sextant Avionique Procede de coloriage sur un ecran a matrice de points
EP0697678A1 (fr) * 1994-08-19 1996-02-21 Sextant Avionique Procédé de codage de mémoire image
FR2723797A1 (fr) * 1994-08-19 1996-02-23 Sextant Avionique Procede de codage de memoire image
US5790128A (en) * 1994-08-19 1998-08-04 Sextant Avionique Method for the encoding of image memories

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