Character display apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNALS CORRESPONDING TO SEGMENTS OF A PATTERN FROM WHICH SELECTED SEGMENTS FORM PARTICULAR CHARACTERS TO BE DISPLAYED AT PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS ON AN INDICATING DEVICE COMPRISING: FIRST MEANS FOR SUPPLYING GROUPS OF SIGNALS, EACH GROUP REPRESENTATIVE OF A PARTICULAR CHARACTER TO BE DISPLAYED; SECOND MEANS FOR GENERATING A PLURALITY OF TIMING CONTROL SIGNALS; THIRD MEANS COUPLED TO SAID SECOND MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID TIMING CONTROL SIGNALS, FOR GENERATING SIGNALS CORRESPONDING TO THE SEGMENTS OF SAID PATTERN; FOURTH MEANS COUPLED TO SAID SECOND MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID TIMING CONTROL SIGNALS FOR DEVELOPING SIGNALS USABLE FOR SCANNING SAID PATTERN AND POSITIONING SAID SCANNED PATTERN AT EACH OF SAID PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS IN A FIRST SEQUENCE; FIFTH MEANS COUPLED TO SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID GROUPS OF REPRESENTATIVE SIGNALS AND SAID TIMING CONTROL SIGNALS FOR DEVELOPING RESULTANT SIGNALS, CORRESPONDING TO THE PARTICULAR CHARACTER REPRESENTED BY EACH OF SAID GROUPS, IN A SECOND SEQUENCE WHICH DETERMINES THE LOCATION AT WHICH THE PARTICULAR CHARACTER REPRESENTED BY EACH OF SAID GROUPS IS TO BE DISPLAYED; AND SIXTH MEANS COUPLED TO SAID THIRD AND FIFTH MEANS AND RESPONSIVE TO SAID GENERATED SIGNALS AND SAID RESULTANT SIGNALS FOR SUPPLYING OUTPUT SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF SAID GENERATED SIGNALS CORRESPONDING TO THOSE SEGMENTS OF SAID PATTERN NEEDED TO MAKE UP EACH OF SAID PARTICULAR CHARACTERS AND TO DISPLAY EACH OF SAID PARTICULAR CHARACTERS AT ITS PREDETERMINED LOCATION.