GB2005500A - A video synthesizer for a digital video display system employing a plurality of gray-scale levels - Google Patents

A video synthesizer for a digital video display system employing a plurality of gray-scale levels

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GB2005500A
GB2005500A GB7834819A GB7834819A GB2005500A GB 2005500 A GB2005500 A GB 2005500A GB 7834819 A GB7834819 A GB 7834819A GB 7834819 A GB7834819 A GB 7834819A GB 2005500 A GB2005500 A GB 2005500A
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Unisys Corp
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Burroughs Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G09G5/22—Control 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
    • G09G5/24—Generation of individual character patterns
    • G—PHYSICS
    • 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
    • G09G5/42—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of patterns using a display memory without fixed position correspondence between the display memory contents and the display position on the screen

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  • Controls And Circuits For Display Device (AREA)
  • Transforming Electric Information Into Light Information (AREA)
  • Control Of Indicators Other Than Cathode Ray Tubes (AREA)
  • Picture Signal Circuits (AREA)

Abstract

In a digital video display system wherein characters are displayed in the form of images of the complete character rather than a dot-matrix pattern, a character generator stores signals representing the various characters which are retrieved from storage in response to a character code. The signals specify, in binary-coded form, the gray-scale or luminance values for the various picture elements making up the character image, and are supplied to a video synthesizer that generates the video signal to display the character images which may be displayed in a number of different modes including white-on-black, black-on-white, black- on-gray, and white-on-gray as well as different combinations of such modes to represent a cursor. The video synthesizer converts from binary-coded form to "thermometer" code which is fed to a summing network for D-to-A conversion. The voltage output signals differ from level to level in accordance with the 2.2 root of luminance. <IMAGE>
GB7834819A 1977-09-26 1978-08-29 Video synthesizer for digital video display system employiing a plurality of gray-scale levels Expired GB2005500B (en)

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CA (1) CA1102458A (en)
DE (1) DE2840005A1 (en)
FR (1) FR2404361A1 (en)
GB (1) GB2005500B (en)

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EP0078087A2 (en) * 1981-10-28 1983-05-04 Philips Electronics Uk Limited Decoding binary coded colour video signals
EP0132456A1 (en) * 1983-07-29 1985-02-13 DR.-ING. RUDOLF HELL GmbH Method and device to check the sentence quality of printed matter, in particular for newspapers
EP0132454A1 (en) * 1983-07-29 1985-02-13 DR.-ING. RUDOLF HELL GmbH Method and device for the high definition typographical display of text

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DE3614422A1 (en) * 1986-04-29 1987-11-05 Siemens Ag Circuit arrangement for converting two digital signals into one analog signal for controlling the brightness of a display unit operating in accordance with the raster element method

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Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2496307A1 (en) * 1980-12-16 1982-06-18 Sony Corp APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING TEXTS
EP0078087A2 (en) * 1981-10-28 1983-05-04 Philips Electronics Uk Limited Decoding binary coded colour video signals
EP0078087A3 (en) * 1981-10-28 1983-11-30 Philips Electronics Uk Limited Decoding binary coded colour video signals
EP0132456A1 (en) * 1983-07-29 1985-02-13 DR.-ING. RUDOLF HELL GmbH Method and device to check the sentence quality of printed matter, in particular for newspapers
EP0132454A1 (en) * 1983-07-29 1985-02-13 DR.-ING. RUDOLF HELL GmbH Method and device for the high definition typographical display of text
US4667247A (en) * 1983-07-29 1987-05-19 Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell Gmbh Method and apparatus for checking the quality of composings for printing products, in particular newspapers

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GB2005500B (en) 1982-07-14
CA1102458A (en) 1981-06-02
DE2840005C2 (en) 1987-09-24
JPS5454533A (en) 1979-04-28
JPH0258635B2 (en) 1990-12-10
FR2404361A1 (en) 1979-04-20
DE2840005A1 (en) 1979-04-05

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PCNP Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee
732 Registration of transactions, instruments or events in the register (sect. 32/1977)
PCNP Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

Effective date: 19960829