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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4475172 | Audio/visual home computer and game apparatus A home computer system provides a video processor for use with a television receiver. The video processor can selectively perform a variety of modifications to pixel data under the direction of the CPU of the computer system before the pixel data is store... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4471464 | Data processing system with programmable graphics generator A microprocessor based data processing system including a microprocessor, a memory unit, and a display unit is provided with a programmable graphics generator that transfers graphics information from the memory unit to the display unit in response to and ... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4455609 | Apparatus for realtime fast reconstruction and display of dose distribution Apparatus for realtime fast reconstruction and display of dose distribution which calculates the dose of absorbed radiation in an irradiated area defined by coordinates and displays the results of the calculation. The apparatus comprises an input unit cap... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4424572 | Device for the digital transmission and display of graphics and/or of characters on a screen The present invention relates to a device for the digital transmission and display of graphics and/or of characters on a screen, the device comprising a terminal connected to a transmission network, to a graphic acquisition device and to a unit for displa... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4414643 | Ordering system for pairing feature intersections on a simulated radar sweepline The disclosure describes a system for ordering and pairing feature boundary intersections on a sweepline of a simulated digital radar visual display screen in order to arrange a variable length list of data in accordance with a desired order. This orderin... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4396988 | Method and apparatus for automatically determining the X-Y intersection of two curves in a raster type display system including a buffer refresh memory A method and apparatus for determining the X--Y coordinates on the raster of the intersection of two curves one of which is stored in the display system raster refresh buffer. The second curve is generated by a curve generator or some other source of sequ... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4392130 | Method and device for presentation of graphical information The invention relates to a method and device for generating and presenting an image on a visual display unit or some other display member. The image is composed, for example by an operator via a keyboard, of a plurality of symbols defined in advance in a ... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4386411 | Random pattern generator A random pattern generator is used to generate waveforms displayed on a cathode ray tube. A plurality of waveforms are built up to form an observed pattern for use in the design of textiles or carpets. To form a waveform a series of numbers Xi (i=1, 2, 3 ... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4385367 | Sequence block display system A sequence block display system used with a programmable sequence controller for displaying a sequence block on a screen of a cathode-ray tube display unit in the form of ladder diagram. The sequence block display system is provided with a data processor ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4375083 | Signal sequence editing method and apparatus with automatic time fitting of edited segments A voice message from a user telephone (11) is recorded (FIG. 3) by being converted to digitally coded form and processed through a computer memory (32) prior to placement in bulk storage (31) memory sectors of uniform size. The message is retrieved in a p... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4368463 | Graphic display area classification A method and apparatus are provided for classifying areas on a raster-type display unit. The problem is to identify areas defined by a closed boundary--e.g. for filling in such areas. Boundary data are entered into a first "polygon" store which has a plur... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4344145 | Display method and apparatus for efficiently communicating the status of an ongoing process or system by the simultaneous display of many normalized parameter deviations The management of complex ongoing systems and processes such as nuclear power plants, although increasingly computerized, requires better methods of real time coupling in of the unique capability of the human brain, namely judgment. This invention describ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4330843 | Digital display exerciser In a data acquisition and storage system including a plurality of remote data generating units, a data processor/display unit for addressing the respective data generating units, processing the data for storage and providing a visual display of the proces... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4315315 | Graphical automatic programming Invention involves a process for automatically producing a computer program in machine assembly language directly from a two-dimensional network representing the flow of data and control logic which it is desired to accomplish on a specified general purpo... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4308587 | Apparatus for displaying at least two parameters of populations of particles on a cathode ray tube Apparatus for displaying dots on a cathode ray tube representing populations of particles being analyzed, which includes a pair of digital memories which concurrently store X-Y data pairs for several particles and which drive the X-Y deflection circuits o... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4303987 | Logic state analyzer with graphic display A general purpose logic state analyzer selectively stores, formats and displays a digital signal representing a sequence of data states input thereto and provides a graphical display of the stored data states and a count of selected events occurring inter... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4300136 | Display pattern preparing system A display pattern preparing system for forming picture element series data for formation and display of picture images by raster scanning. "Figure" or "Configuration" of a pattern is disassembled to be normalized. An fixed pattern memory stores, as a regi... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4296476 | Data processing system with programmable graphics generator A microprocessor based data processing system including a microprocessor, a memory unit, and display unit is provided with a programmable graphics generator that transfers graphics information from the memory unit to the display unit in response to and co... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4280186 | Exposure apparatus using electron beams An exposure apparatus using an electron beam includes a first memory for storing pattern data representing various basic patterns, a data processor for reading from the first memory the pattern data necessary to form a pattern to be drawn, a second memory... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4277835 | Apparatus for recording and displaying or plotting graphs The apparatus can deal with graphs obtained as a computer output and comprises recording means controlled by a computing unit in response to the generation of each point of the graphs for recording in a memory an indication of its location in the graphs, ... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4272808 | Digital graphics generation system A real time digital graphics display system is disclosed for generating circles, arcs and vectors. The system utilizes Taylor's formula to determine the successive coordinates of the points along the image of the character displayed. The system is able to... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4253152 | Spectrum analyzer with parameter updating from a display marker An input signal is mixed with sampling signals from oscillators which vary the frequency of the sampling signal from a first frequency to a second frequency. The resulting Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal is processed and digital values are stored in a ... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4251816 | Method and apparatus for plotting graphics A method and apparatus for plotting graphics or images such as arrows and grids, for example, on a display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen. The method includes generating a plotting string for the image to be displayed, with the plotting st... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4244024 | Spectrum analyzer having enterable offsets and automatic display zoom An input signal is mixed with sampling signals from oscillators which vary the frequency of the sampling signal from a first frequency to a second frequency. The resulting Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal is processed and digital values are stored in a ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4241341 | Apparatus for scan conversion In the field of raster scan computer graphics display equipment, an apparatus for the transformation of picture information specified as line segments defined in terms of a two dimensional planar coordinate system describing the display raster into a form... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4238826 | Method and apparatus for image signal generation and image display Method and apparatus for generating image-forming envelope and other wave forms for image display of an area or an object whose image is desired to be simulated. The image-forming envelope wave forms for complex objects and complex area silhouettes are fo... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4236152 | Readout means of a calculator operatively associated with a home use TV image screen A combination of an electronic calculator, a home use television receiver and a signal converter interface is suited for displaying a coordinative representation calculated from the calculator onto the image screen of the calculator or onto the image scre... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4232334 | Cosmetic apparatus and method Disclosed in a cosmetic apparatus which helps select a make-up pattern which matches a customer's face and displays a mutually scaled and registered overlay of the selected make-up pattern and the customer's face or at least an outline of it. Also disclos... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4222106 | Functional curve displaying process and apparatus A process and two embodiments of an apparatus are disclosed for displaying, on the screen of a conventional home television receiver, curves illustrating analog signal potential functions of the form U(x,y). The process generally requires generating first... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4217642 | Method and apparatus for locating data characterizing blood flow through the heart A method and improved apparatus for locating data of interest on a cathode ray tube display in a system for characterizing blood flow through the heart is disclosed. Apparatus comprising an adjustable cursor control circuit is utilized to generate a plura... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4139903 | Logic state analyzer Clock signals, data words and qualifier signals are received via monitor probes during a data acquisition mode, selected data words being stored in a memory in response to the clock and qualifier signals. The stored data words may then be displayed in a t... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4117473 | Display system for displaying information in the form of a horizontally oriented curve on a raster type CRT A horizontally oriented curve is produced on a raster type cathode ray tube display by storing curve data words in a memory and placing a series of dots on the cathode ray tube screen with each dot being at a height dictated by the value of the respective... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4039784 | Digital minimum/maximum vector CRT display A vector CRT display apparatus for faithfully reproducing an analog signal having high frequency components include an A-D converter, a digital minimum/maximum circuit and a recirculating shift register to derive from the signal, in successive sampling pe... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4034353 | Computer system performance indicator Computer monitor instructions are placed in appropriate locations in a routine to be monitored. Upon their execution, a decoder appropriately activates or de-activates circuitry, which develops time-related performance parameters. These time-related param... | 07/05/1977 |
| 3987284 | Conic generator for on-the-fly digital television display Apparatus is disclosed to implement a recursive technique to generate the coordinates of horizontal raster line components which intersect a conic-section shape to be represented. The apparatus cooperates with a refresh buffer which stores the video data ... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3978470 | Multi-channel data color display apparatus A multi-channel display apparatus includes a computer having a random access memory means for storing of the continuous monitored data and for driving of a multiple-channel television unit, with each channel identified by a preselected unique color. Verti... | 08/31/1976 |
