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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7911484 | Source driver for image scrolling A source driver comprising a frame memory, a first line buffer, and a second line buffer. The frame memory stores bits of pixel values of an image. The first line buffer then sequentially latches the bits of the pixel values from the frame memory with a first addres... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7264473 | Replaceable faceplates for peripheral devices Automatically determining which one of a plurality of functions is to be associated with a movable member of an electronic device, depending on which one of a plurality of faceplates is coupled to the electronic device. A selected faceplate is coupled to a keyboard ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7230600 | Repairable memory in display devices A display system includes a repairable memory that re-routes data when a defect exists in the memory. A significant bit in the display memory that would otherwise be corrupted by a bad memory cell is re-routed to a least significant bit position in the memory, and t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7197234 | System and method for processing subpicture data A method is described for rendering subpicture images comprising: reading a subpicture image from a digital versatile disk (“DVD”); identifying regions within the subpicture image for which α is below a specified threshold value; and rendering on a video screen... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7154515 | Method and apparatus for reducing printing artifacts of stitched images A method and apparatus for eliminating artifacts in images formed using more than one image segment. A buffer region associated with two adjacent image segments is defined wherein the intensity levels of the pixels are attenuated. When image segments substantially o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7053862 | System and method for rapidly refreshing a dynamic message sign display panel In accordance with the invention, there is described systems and methods for rapidly refreshing a sign display panel. Each display unit of the sign display panel receives a plurality of frames from the controller and stores each frame in memory. The controller then ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053951 | Camera with user compliant browse and display modes A camera is configured to capture an image of a real world scene as an image signal and to store captured images. The camera includes a screen suitable for displaying a high resolution version of a stored image from a list of stored images when a location within the... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7012617 | Method for representing a digital color image using a set of palette colors based on detected important colors Disclosed is a method for converting an input digital color image having a set of possible input colors to an output digital color image having a set of palette colors, the number of palette colors being less than the number of possible input colors, wherein the set... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6996279 | Compressed storage of data items Storing of data items in a memory (31) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory (31), and when applying a data piece to the m... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980221 | Method for representing a digital color image using a set of palette colors Disclosed is a method for converting an input digital color image having a set of possible input colors to an output digital color image having a set of palette colors, the number of palette colors being less than the number of possible input colors, wherein the set... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6828978 | Bucket-sorting graphical rendering apparatus and method Graphical memory access requests are routed to a plurality of bucket buffers. Filled bucket write buffers and empty bucket read buffers are efficiently emptied and filled respectively via a wide memory bus. The bucket sorting apparatus and method is used to increase... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6731808 | Compressed storage of data items Storing of data items in a memory (31) is provided wherein the data items are divided into successive data pieces of decreasing significance, and the data pieces are stored in respective parts of the memory (31), and when applying a data piece to the m... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6570562 | Method for drawing patterned lines in a system supporting off-screen graphics A method for rendering patterned lines in an environment that need not support rendering of patterned lines through a standard viewing mechanism, but that does support the rendering of graphical primitives in an off-screen imaging area. A solid line is re... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6411274 | Digital map display zooming method, digital map display zooming device, and storage medium for storing digital map display zooming program A digital map display zooming method for continuously enlarging and reducing a displayed portion of a digital map as map information in digital form within a display screen is provided which comprises the steps of displaying the displayed portion of the d... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6181316 | Graphical user interface inline scroll control A method and apparatus for inline scrolling of related objects in a computer desktop environment. This scrolling is accomplished by utilizing a pointing device to activate an indicator actually imbedded into the relational information for the data being p... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6067068 | Scrollable display window A system to scroll a first image inside a window of a second image displayed on a display screen. The system includes storage of the second image in a VRAM, designation of display addresses in the VRAM corresponding to a location of the window on the disp... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5805133 | Method and apparatus for increasing the rate of scrolling in a frame buffer system designed for windowing operations A frame buffer including a memory array, circuitry for accessing the array, a plurality of latches each capable of storing a plurality of pixel values equivalent to a large portion of a row of pixels in the array which may be read simultaneously from the ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5621430 | Method and apparatus for navigating multiple independent windowed images A method and apparatus for navigating multiple independent windowed images on a computer display screen of a computer system is presented. The images may be of arbitrary size and shape, although a rectangular shape is typically used. A relationship is def... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5608423 | Video display processor with pixel by pixel hardware scrolling A video display processor and system supports hardware scrolling of the display. Horizontal and vertical scroll registers control the base address of the memory storing the display data. The horizontal scroll register resets a horizontal state register at... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5337069 | Still picture display apparatus and external storage device used therein A still picture display apparatus displays a still picture in which characters each composed of combination of a predetermined number of dots on a raster scan monitor in accordance with character data and program data both stored in an external storage de... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5333261 | Graphics processing apparatus having instruction which operates separately on X and Y coordinates of pixel location registers The graphics processing apparatus of the present invention utilizes individual registers of a register file to store the X and Y coordinates of pixels. These X and Y coordinates though formed into a single data word are separable by, for example, having t... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5266932 | Vertical scrolling address generating device This invention relates to an image display system for reading out image data stored in an image memory and displaying the image data on multiple image planes and the vertical scrolling operation can be independently effected for each of the image planes d... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5229759 | Auto-offset LCD vertical scroll mechanism A LCD vertical scrolling mechanism automatically tracks addresses of information scrolled on a LCD. A counter is initialized to a value latched in a vector register when a frame signal is received. Subsequent BPCLK signals step the adder through a series ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5200738 | Method of image display with scrolling capability A method of data display for a system which includes a main image memory having stored therein data representing a main image, a display memory coupled to temporarily hold data transferred thereto form the main image memory, and a display apparatus for di... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4991117 | Figure data display method and system A figure data display method and system in which the contents to be stored and constituting data are stored in the form of figure data divided into a plurality of partial areas, a file information table is prepared which registers therein figure area info... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4962475 | Method for generating a document utilizing a plurality of windows associated with different data objects A method for tailoring a master document to obtain a special document. The master document is made up of data objects and portions of the data objects. Included in the portions are pointers to corresponding data objects. The portions are windowed and disp... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4949193 | Video composition method employing action scrolling A composing apparatus and method select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The apparatus has a pictorial display monitor, an... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4943866 | Video composition method and apparatus employing smooth scrolling A video composition method and apparatus select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The apparatus and method employ pictorial... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4940970 | CRT display device with a picture-shifting circuit A CRT display device with a picture-rearranging circuit in which a display address for accessing a memory to display data stored in the memory is calculated at a high speed by hardware, i.e., a calculator, which counts values from an address counter or a ... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4926269 | Method of reading and displaying an image in an information filing apparatus In an information filing apparatus, a portion of an image read by a scanner is immediately displayed on a display screen, even though the display screen is smaller than the entire image to be read. When the display image corresponding to the image portion... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4903013 | Display system for plural display areas on one screen A display system for displaying characters on a screen which is divided into a plurality of display areas and for allowing a scroll within each of the display areas with one chip of display data RAM without image confusion between the display area. The di... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4794386 | Data integrator for video display including windows A computer-controlled video display presents alphanumeric or graphic data to a human user in a fashion selected to provide user control of the data transfer rate and to increase mental concentration, comprehension and creativity. A set of video display re... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4755810 | Frame buffer memory A frame buffer memory has a random access memory (RAM) for storing pixel data words, each word containing pixel data corresponding to a separate set of a plurality pixels along a horizontal raster line of a screen display. Each word is separately addresse... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4737778 | Video display controller There is provided a video display controller which can vertically and horizontally shift a whole video image displayed on a screen of a video display unit. The video display controller comprises an image data read circuit which reads the image data from a... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4677431 | Raster display smoothing technique An apparatus and method for smoothing the reproduction of digitized waveforms on a raster scan line display by providing control signals which increase and decrease the electron beam pattern along the scan line in a trapezoidal pattern which is representa... | 06/30/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4653012 | Display systems A display system including a display device, a storage means having an array of storage locations each location being adapted to contain data representing a visual parameter of a different pixel of a picture to be displayed, and signal generating means fo... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4642794 | Video update FIFO buffer In a video terminal comprising a terminal processor communicating with a central processor, and a single-block non-interleaved video memory for storing video information for displaying on the terminal screen, a video update FIFO buffer is provided for buf... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4633415 | Windowing and scrolling for a cathode-ray tube display A method and a circuit for producing an independent scrollable display region (sometimes referred to as a "window") on the face of a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in a bit-mapped data display system is disclosed. Circuitry is provided to detect the presence of t... | 12/30/1986 |
