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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4558315 | Input apparatus and method for controlling the scanning of a multi-cell display An apparatus and method are disclosed for adapting a multi-mode scanning technique employed to optically scan the display panel of a scanned display device to provide for the time required by the user to adjust to a change in scanning mode. Each scanning ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556880 | Liquid crystal display apparatus The invention is concerned with a liquid crystal display apparatus which displays data by driving a liquid crystal panel in synchronism with horizontal synchronizing signals and vertical synchronizing signals. The driver for driving the liquid crystal pan... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4540982 | Delay compensation method and apparatus for digital display systems A delay compensation method and apparatus for digital display systems includes a differential clock generator which controls the timing of progenitor digital signals in separate signal-processing channels so that reconstructed horizontal and vertical anal... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4538146 | Integrated circuit output pins used for input signals A circuit that monitors the LED driver output pins on an integrated circuit for quiescent moments and then uses those output pins, only during these moments, to strobe keys on a keyboard for input signals.... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4517598 | Method and apparatus for electronic publishing The present invention provides apparatus and methods for formatting and displaying video information having particular application to electronic publishing systems. A video signal which includes a plurality of fields of video information is inputted into ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4491925 | Precision time tracking line generator A display system line generator network having an error correction feedback loop which achieves high positional accuracy for both plan position indicators PPI and synthetic character and line data. Digital reference position and relative beam motion data ... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4475124 | Synchronizing system for character display A system is described for synchronizing the display of characters within a character image area on a raster scanned cathode ray tube. The system's input is a composite blanking signal which includes conventional horizontal rate and vertical rate blanking ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4468662 | Display apparatus for displaying characters or graphics on a cathode ray tube A display apparatus is disclosed comprising a picture memory having memorizing portions which correspond in one-to-one relation to characters or graphics to be displayed on the screen of a cathode ray tube display monitor, a CPU of a controller for readin... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4450442 | Display processor for superimposed-picture display system A display processor for a raster-display type system comprising a display memory with the capacity of storing at least one page of video information to be displayed over the screen of a cathode-ray tube and a cathode-ray tube (CRT) control circuit which d... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4447809 | High resolution figure displaying device utilizing plural memories for storing edge data of even and odd horizontal scanning lines In a figure displaying device which generates edge data corresponding to the individual horizontal scanning lines, to display figures on the raster scanning type Braun tube relying upon the edge data, the improvement comprising at least two sets of memory... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4431314 | Presettable digital time-piece display system A multistage counter 3, 5, 7, 10 normally counts seconds pulses from a frequency divider 2. Counters 5 and 7 are units and tens minutes counters and are set by shifting a counter 21 by button B to provide a "1" on output 21d. When a button A is then held ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4425581 | System for overlaying a computer generated video signal on an NTSC video signal A system for overlaying a computer generated video signal on an NTSC video signal includes horizontal and vertical pulse processor circuits for generating a horizontal start signal and a vertical reset signal, respectively, in accordance with NTSC standar... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4420750 | Alphanumeric visual display of the matrix type An alphanumeric visual display of the matrix type for use in electronic digital wristwatches and similar devices is adapted to display relatively lengthy numerical or character information on a relatively short display area through a consistently varying ... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4408335 | Method and apparatus for controlling tape transport apparatus for cassettes Method and apparatus for synchronizing a display with tape movement utilizing a clock means for driving the display, and adjusting the rate of the clock means according to measured movement of the tape to maintain the clock and thus the display in synchro... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4388621 | Drive circuit for character and graphic display device In a $c;2 cycle steal mode, a clock signal is selected such that a time period during which a RAM is connected to a timing signal generator for display is extended and a time period during which the RAM is connected to a CPU is shortened acc... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4365245 | Display module for traveling pattern signs A display module which controls a sequence of lights, for interconnection with other modules of the same kind to form a display system. The module controls the intensity of each light in its sequence so as to display a time varying brightness pattern that... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4359729 | Matrix type liquid crystal display with faculties of providing a visual display in at least two different modes The disclosure is directed toward an XY matrix type liquid crystal. In the case where more than one kind of display pattern are to be displayed using substantially the same line or lines (a column or columns for a column sequential drive method), only lin... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4354188 | Device for dividing a recurrent input signal by a non-integer divisor f, notably by f=N-1/2 A number of dividers for a non-integer divisor f, notably f=N-1/2. The divider comprises a chain of dynamic bistable elements, at least one of which is activated in reaction to the positive-going signal edges, while at least one is activated in reaction t... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4352102 | Liquid crystal display of time dependent signals A liquid crystal display has a first system of parallel elongated electrodes and a second system of parallel elongated electrodes. The first and second systems are perpendicular to each other. The electrodes in the second system are biased in such a fashi... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4348667 | Automatic line segment generator for use with linear array display devices An automatic line segment generator is disclosed primarily for use with linear array display devices. Converted analog data is received from a single slope analog to digital converter. This received digital data is synchronized with a system clock and is ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4346407 | Apparatus for synchronization of a source of computer controlled video to another video source Synchronization of a source of computer controlled video to another video source is achieved by providing clock pulses for the source of computer controlled video at some multiple of the horizontal synchronization frequency of the other video source to ob... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4345246 | Synchronization device for a character-generating circuit and a vertical scanning circuit and television receiver comprising such a device Devices for displaying a label on a visualization screen. The information display inserted into a background image is provided by a character-generating circuit. The stability of the label requires synchronization of the vertical scanning of the image and... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4344075 | Timing circuit for the digital generation of composite luminance and chrominance video signal for non-interlaced television raster scan-line pattern Ragged vertical edges normally displayed by a NTSC color-carrier on a non-interlaced display are effectively eliminated through persistence of vision by altering the duration of a selected single scan-line of the non-display portion of each of successive ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4342989 | Dual CRT control unit synchronization system A logic control system in a video display terminal is disclosed for synchronizing the operation of dual, asynchronously operating CRT control unit semiconductor chips to accommodate a substantially increased number of visual attributes per display row wit... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4338597 | Remote monitor interface A data processing system remote monitor interface includes a first device which transmits different types of time-related information signals along multiple parallel channels to a second device for reception and combination into a different number of info... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4291412 | Portable radio frequency/channel display system A portable radio frequency/channel display control system for use in a portable radio device or the like which is powered by a battery and of the type which includes a display for indicating the frequency/channel to which the radio is tuned. The system se... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4264963 | Static latches for storing display segment information Display information is stored in an array of segment latches, and by addressing these latches with common signals, the number of instructions necessary to operate a calculator in a display mode is greatly reduced. Thereby, the operation frequency of the c... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4231035 | Liquid crystal display for large time multiplexing factors A liquid crystal display screen of the twisted nematic type comprising a liquid crystal having a dielectric relaxation and a high dispersion of &3xb5;11 is used in a display device with a dual-frequency control. This structure enables the imple... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4225847 | Display circuit Disclosed is a data display circuit which comprises a shift register circuit including six cascade-connected shift registers shifting serial data to produce parallel data, a decoder circuit including three decoders receiving the parallel data from the shi... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4148015 | Electronic timepiece with an electrochromic display A driver circuit for an electrochromic display device for an electronic timepiece. In a first preferred embodiment, drive signals are applied through a plurality of source follower first and second metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors to seg... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4076385 | Liquid crystal display device This invention relates to a liquid crystal display device, for driving a plurality of digits of liquid crystal display sequentially by using a time-sharing system.... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4045815 | System for combining analog and image signals into a standard video format A system for combining at least one analog signal, such as EKG signal, and an image signal, such as video signal representing a fluoroscopic view of a patient's heart or the like. The system includes a summing amplifier, which provides an input to a TV mo... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4012592 | AC line triggered refreshing of CRT displays The disclosure describes a digitally controlled raster scan display system comprising a video signal generator that is automatically synchronized with the frequency of the a.c. power line from which it is powered to prevent line frequency beating. The dis... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3973254 | Arrangement for a dynamic display system A digital display system of the dynamic pulse-lighting type for electronic desk-top calculators and the like, characterized in that a blanking signal having a pulse width large enough to cover each border time between adjacent display timing signals is us... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3956744 | Numeral output system for circulating register A display (or printing) device is dynamically capable of displaying an output numeral from a register in a time division manner. The display device is controlled by a control circuitry adapted to provide a blank time between display times of adjacent digi... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3946378 | Dynamic digital pulse display An arrangement for the dynamic direct display of pulses in the nanosecond range operates without oscilloscopes or other special display apparatus. To display pulse timing or amplitude characteristics, a pulse sequence is applied to an equidistant tapped d... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3944993 | Non-interlaced 263 TV line character generation system A character generator system suitable for creating a character display on the screen of a standard TV receiver is disclosed. The character generator system includes a sync generator which generates timing and synchronizing signals that create a 263 line, ... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3941989 | Reducing power consumption in calculators Continuous power and a high rate clock are supplied to a calculator while it is in an execute mode and is actually decoding and processing input information, but lower duty cycle power and lower duty cycle clock pulses are supplied during the subsequent d... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940755 | Plasma display driving apparatus Apparatus for driving a plasma discharge display employs a sustaining voltage pulse train source for quiescently energizing the display electrodes. To modify the display presentation, e.g., to initiate discharges at a new cell or terminate that previously... | 02/24/1976 |
