Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 8125492 | Parameter wiring A method and apparatus for establishing relationships between attributes of objects is provided. According to one aspect, a set of first user input data that selects a first attribute that is associated with a first object is received. A set of second user input dat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7570269 | Font management system A time for displaying bitmap data is shortened, and the volume of a font table is reduced. A table having all records from start 0000h to end FFFFh is used as a pointer table which imparts a start address of bitmap data. A start address of bitmap data is stored in e... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7492370 | Management method and display method of on-screen display thereof and related display controlling device A OSD management method for writing OSD data into a memory, the management method includes: respectively writing a first partial data and a second partial data of the first OSD data into a first memory space and a second memory space of the memory; and respectively ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7289235 | Information processing device, information processing system, method for controlling information processing device, storage medium and control program In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7256760 | Semiconductor device A systemized active matrix display in which a pixel matrix circuit, a driver circuit and a logic circuit are mounted on the same substrate, is formed. A TFT of the present invention has such characteristics as to be able to operate in a wide driving frequency range ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245281 | Drive circuit device for display device, and display device using the same A drive circuit device for a display device which drives a plurality of source bus lines provided on a display panel includes a driver unit that receives a clock signal, a data signal and a control signal, sequentially fetches the data signal, and generates drive si... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224340 | Method of processing signal of LCM timing controller A method of processing signals of a timing controller of a liquid crystal display module, wherein the signals are processed according to a rising edge or a falling edge of a synchronizing signal to generate the control signals for the liquid crystal display module, ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225467 | Active intrusion resistant environment of layered object and compartment keys (airelock) A high level of security and fault tolerance is provided in a digital network by use of highly secure infrastructure of user transparent signalling for communicating detection of signals at a network node having characteristics of a potential attack to another node ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218327 | Font memory for a display A font memory for a display includes a ROM with a storage region divided into a program storing region and a font data storing region, divided into a mono-font data storing region and a color font data storing region, and designed to map and store data in three segm... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7201340 | Method and device for treating articles in the form of sheet-like material The invention relates to an apparatus and corresponding method for processing, i.e. testing, sorting and/or destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes, comprising a processing device (10) having at least one means (13, 14, 41) for generating ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199805 | Method and apparatus for titling Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for presenting computer-generated characters. The method defines several frames for a character and sequentially presents the frames. Each frame depicts a particular representation of the character. Also, at least t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7170564 | On-screen display device This invention provides an on-screen display device that can display an increased number of types of characters without enlarging the video RAM area. This on-screen display device includes a character generator ROM that has n (n is an integer that is equal to or lar... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164484 | Print controller, print control method and printer including determination to store macro as instruction or bitmap A printer controller obtains high-speed bitmap generation processing while maintaining flexibility in macro definition when generating bitmap data from a macro-formed data. A processing unit calls macro data from a memory storing macro data to generate bitmap data. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158139 | Simple on screen display system using mapped ROM generated characters The present invention provides a low cost OSD system with minimal ROM requirements, minimal computing power required from the microcontroller, and minimal I/O port requirements. The OSD system creates a fixed frame around a small set of programmable characters. The ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149964 | Creation and delivery of customized content A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas and language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is us... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142221 | Display drive control device and electric device including display device In a system including a color liquid crystal panel, a drive control device for driving the panel, and a microprocessor, the drive control device reduces the burden on the microprocessor as well as power consumption. In a liquid crystal display drive control device t... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114077 | Verification system for confidential data input In an electronic device having a processor, a visual display, apparatus for entering data into said device, and an electronic memory, a method for reliably determining whether confidential handwritten or voice data entered into the electronic device for processing h... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7109996 | Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory A system and method for rendering fonts into a memory is disclosed. The system and method comprises a data structure located within the memory. The data structure includes at least one font array. The method and system includes a graphics controller for accessing at... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7089173 | Hardware opencore evaluation Various techniques permit more thorough development of digital systems and devices by designers while protecting the proprietary interests of the owners of the intellectual property incorporated in such systems and devices. More specifically, the present invention p... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084873 | System, method and computer program product for displaying and/or compressing digital data The invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for compressing and/or displaying digital data. The system includes a storage medium for storing a plurality of instruction sequences representing displayable characters, a display for displaying... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7028266 | Processing occluded windows during application sharing An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein shared window data is treated according to different sets of rules depending upon the fraction of the shared window data that corresponds to the actual shared window. In this manner, occlusions ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7009617 | On-screen display device An on-screen display device that can effectively utilize a video RAM area. This on-screen display device includes a video RAM that holds character data of desired characters that are to be displayed; a display character setting unit for locating the number of bits a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999082 | Character code converting system in multi-platform environment, and computer readable recording medium having recorded character code converting program A character code converting system capable of lightening the burden imposed on the management of a code converting library and mapping information on the side of users and of easily and surely carrying out code conversion of character data including types of charact... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995779 | Driving device for a display A driving device drives a liquid crystal display device or the like to achieve screen display. This driving device has a driver integrated circuit device for feeding a driving signal to a display, a read-only memory having characters stored therein, and a microcompu... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6876400 | Apparatus and method for protecting a memory sharing signal control lines with other circuitry An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is operably coupled to the f... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870578 | Apparatus and method for sharing signal control lines An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a first device such as a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is op... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6847410 | Picture data memory device with picture data input channels and picture data output channels A picture data memory device which can be used universally comprises a central picture data memory for storing picture data of a plurality of picture data input channels, in which case the stored picture data can additionally be read out via a plurality of picture d... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6831703 | Method and circuit for the storage of digital data and television set implementing said storage method A method for storing pages of a teletext service, with at least one page being received by a storage circuit of a television receiver, is provided. The storage circuit includes a data memory for storing the at least one received page. The method includes extracting ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6831645 | System and method for performing font operations when background color is transparent One embodiment of a method of performing a font operation involves receiving a set of font data identifying a font operation to be performed. If a first font data unit in the set indicates that a first coordinate should be a background color and transparent backgrou... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6630966 | Device for controlling the displaying of characters in a video system In a device for controlling the displaying of characters for a video system, the memory for storing information relating to the displaying of the characters is partitioned into two areas. The first area (Z1, Z1') is for storing, at fixed addresses, data a... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6601205 | Method to descramble the data mapping in memory circuits An automatic method for the generation of a logical hardware test pattern in memory circuits is based on a given physical pattern. The method includes backwards transformation from a given set of logical data patterns. Since the method is automatic, no kn... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6529284 | Efficient rendering of masks to a screened buffer using a lookup table A method and system for expanding a pixel bitmap mask. The pixel bitmap mask (102) is expanded by the use of a lookup table (104) to create an m*n bit expanded mask, where m is the depth of a screen and n is the number of pixels described by the original ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6483510 | Integrated graphic and character mixing circuit for driving an LCD display An integrated graphic and character combining circuit for driving a display device, for example an LCD panel, allows for a configuration by which an external ROM is not necessary, reduces processing burden on the data-supplying processor, and provides a s... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6421059 | Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory A system and method for rendering fonts into a memory is disclosed. The system and method comprises a data structure located within the memory. The data structure includes at least one font array. The method and system includes a graphics controller for a... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6290604 | Video game apparatus and memory used therefor A video game apparatus includes an external ROM. This external ROM is previously memorized with player object data, basic shadow object data and light object data. A direction in which a shadow is thrown is determined according to the player object data a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6275237 | Structural graph display system A structural graph displaying system for generating a new structural graph by changing sub-graphs of an existent structural graph. The displaying system includes a drawing control program for controlling the drawing process of a character, a contour chang... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6229519 | Display controller for communication apparatus and method therefor A radio selective calling receiver having means for receiving a message, and displaying the received message on a display section, the receiver comprising storage means 9 in which the maximum number of alphanumeric, katakana or Kanji which can be displaye... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6225989 | Matrix character generation system The present invention provides a matrix character generation system comprising a memory for storing data and programs, a processor for executing the programs stored in the memory, and a screen for displaying matrix graphs generated by the matrix character... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219072 | Microcomputer with a built in character display circuit and visual display unit using such a microcomputer Disposed in a single integrated circuit chip are a central processing unit (CPU) for performing instruction execution, an on-screen display (OSD) circuit for displaying character information on a display screen, a read only memory (ROM) which is arbitrari... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6203431 | Video game apparatus and memory medium used therefor A video game apparatus includes an external ROM. This external ROM is previously memorized with player object data, basic shadow object data and light object data. A direction in which a shadow is thrown is determined according to the player object data a... | 03/20/2001 |
