Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4744046 | Video display terminal with paging and scrolling Paging and scrolling is provided in a video display terminal having a multi-page video memory by restricting memory access when in the scrolling mode to the page being displayed. An address pager functions as a multiplexer in coupling a central processing... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4739314 | Specifying measurements on a page by pointing An easy-to-use technique for specifying measurements of a document to be printed uses a pointing method, such as a cursor which is moved around a display screen by means of a pointing device having a select button. The pointing cursor is moved to each des... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4734689 | Display apparatus which can scroll displayed data with regard to cursor position A display apparatus includes a document memory for storing data, a display section for displaying the data stored in a desired storage area of the document memory on a screen, and a scroll controller for designating data to be displayed on the display sec... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4714918 | Window view control A method of, and system for, controlling a view of window information upon editing the information. The view is controlled based on mode selection. For normal information input operations, information scrolling is selected. Related existing information ad... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4698624 | Definition of line unit size A computer based word processor or text editor is provided with a technique for defining line unit spacing which is particularly useful in a multi-font environment. A pop-down panel showing a miniature vertical scale line is displayed for the user. Adjace... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4694406 | Apparatus for displaying scrolling images An apparatus for scrolling the display of images obtained from a plurality of data units, each having pattern signals representing a plurality of horizontal lines and a corresponding color signal includes a video display having a plurality of horizontal d... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4682162 | Electronic display unit An electronic display unit according to this invention is formed of a plurality of display elements arranged in a two dimensional array. The display elements are selectively activated to generate a message. All the preselected display elements are activat... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4670745 | Video display address generator A video raster display system having a dedicated display address generator is provided. In addition to a microprocessor contained within the video display system providing addresses to a memory the display address generator also generates addresses. The d... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4663615 | Document creation A method of, and system for, creating a document on a real time basis and providing a view of adjoining portions of the document. A data object is specified for creating a window on a display screen and data is input into the window. When the window has b... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4663617 | Graphics image relocation for display viewporting and pel scrolling By selecting the starting time of the display readout of a pel buffer raster generation, the pel data is mapped to a display screen with an arbitrary displacement with respect to the screen for relocation or scrolling of the pel image on the screen. To co... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4642790 | Presentation space management and viewporting on a multifunction virtual terminal An interactive display system includes a display terminal on which an operator may display the data contained in windows (14.1, 14.2 . . . ) on formatted application data (PS 1, PS 2 . . . ) in selected viewports (15.1, 15.2 . . . ) on the screen 13. The ... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4639723 | Data display system A visual display system having a restricted data display capability incorporating a main buffer store (1) having a storage capacity for data lines greater than the display line capacity of the display (2). Status information signals from a control unit 14... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4561049 | Control system employing a rotary knob A microprocessor controlled system is provided which is responsive to displacement information such as rotation rate and position of a rotary knob for controlling instrument functions such as display scrolling, the setting and display of measurement condi... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4342991 | Partial scrolling video generator A raster scan cathode ray tube (CRT) display system which is capable of indirectly addressing data to be displayed in an manner presenting the data on any selected row or group of rows, in any order. A scrolling system according to the invention includes ... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4160981 | CRT video text layout system having horizontal scrolling A circuit in a video layout system permits the operator to view any portion of text material whose width exceeds that of a display screen of a CRT. The circuit has an operator controllable, variable reference signal generator which provides a signal whose... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4145754 | Line segment video display apparatus A raster typ display apparatus includes interlaced even-and-odd frames. A digital memory of a computer stores line segment data in locations which are sequentially read out to form a line segment display with overlapping line segments. The first line of o... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4005388 | Hand-held interactive terminal An interactive computer terminal which is capable of complete hand-held operation with total freedom of position and location is provided. The terminal incorporates a self-contained full 75-character keyboard, a 20-character alpha numeric readout, and a 1... | 01/25/1977 |
