US4520358A
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Optimized display device memory utilization
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1982-05-11
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Granted: 1985-05-28
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Expires: 2002-05-11
Abstract
Abstract A method of utilizing a memory device for a display device which comprises a parallel combination of an image and a control memory connected to a decoder. At each of addresses assigned to form a color signal, the image memory stores a byte including bits corresponding to green pieces of color information alternating with bits corresponding to red pieces of color information; the control memory stores a byte including four consecutive bits corresponding to blue pieces of color information. The decoder combines associated triads of the red, green and blue bits to form a color signal for a display indicating device. At each of the addresses assigned to form a dot signal, the image memory stores a byte representing the brilliance of a dot and the control memory stores a byte including three consecutive color bits for a foreground to be displayed when a corresponding bit in the image memory is a binary "1" and another three color bits for a background to be displayed when a corresponding bit in the image memory is a binary "0".
Inventors
- 👤 Tomoaki Makino
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 09:18
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09G; G09G5/00; G09G5/02; G09G5/024
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
267 words
In a display indicating system having a memory device including a parallel combination of an image memory and a control memory and further including a decoder which is connected to said parallel combination of said image and control memory, a method of utilizing said memory device to selectively store both color images and characters comprising the steps of: for a pixel of a color image, storing color information in a selected address in said image memory and in selected portions of a selected address in said control memory; for a pixel of a character, storing dot brilliance information in a selected address in said image memory; storing a mode specifying bit in a selected portion of a selected address in said control memory, said mode specifying bit being indicative of whether its corresponding pixel is part of a color image or characters; for a pixel of a character, storing color information in selected portions of a selected address in said control memory; reading out data stored in a selected address in both said image and control memories and feeding said data to said decoder, said decoder decoding said data into red and green and blue data for feeding a display of said systems in accordance with the state of the mode specifying bit, wherein, for a fixed word size at a selected address in said image and control memories, said display displays a preset degree of color resolution for a color image and a preset degree of brilliance resolution for a character and further enables a variable dot resolution within a single picture displayed by said display.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
267 words
In a display indicating system having a memory device including a parallel combination of an image memory and a control memory and further including a decoder which is connected to said parallel combination of said image and control memory, a method of utilizing said memory device to selectively store both color images and characters comprising the steps of: for a pixel of a color image, storing color information in a selected address in said image memory and in selected portions of a selected address in said control memory; for a pixel of a character, storing dot brilliance information in a selected address in said image memory; storing a mode specifying bit in a selected portion of a selected address in said control memory, said mode specifying bit being indicative of whether its corresponding pixel is part of a color image or characters; for a pixel of a character, storing color information in selected portions of a selected address in said control memory; reading out data stored in a selected address in both said image and control memories and feeding said data to said decoder, said decoder decoding said data into red and green and blue data for feeding a display of said systems in accordance with the state of the mode specifying bit, wherein, for a fixed word size at a selected address in said image and control memories, said display displays a preset degree of color resolution for a color image and a preset degree of brilliance resolution for a character and further enables a variable dot resolution within a single picture displayed by said display.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
182 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image memory has stored at each of its first addresses assigned to form a color image pixel, eight bits including odd-numbered bits representing a first color piece of color information and even-numbered bits representing a second color piece of color information and at each of its second addresses assigned to form a dot for a character pixel, an 8-bit piece of character information representing a brilliance of a dot while said control memory has stored at each of its first addresses eight bits including four consecutive bits representing a third color piece of color information and at each of its second addresses eight bits including three consecutive bits representing three primary pieces of color information for a foreground displayed with any of the corresponding bits in said image memory having a value of binary "1" and three consecutive bits following the first-mentioned three consecutive bits and representing three primary pieces of color information for a background displayed with any of the corresponding bits in said image memory having a value of binary "0".
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