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Video display apparatus having a flat X-Y matrix display panel

US4210934A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 15, 1979
Grant dateJul 1, 1980
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Expiry dateFeb 15, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2310/027
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Video display apparatus having a flat X-Y matrix display panel comprised of an X-Y array of display elements for displaying a picture derived from a video signal. An analog-to-digital converter obtains m samples of a line of the video signal, each sample being formed of n bits of different bit levels from the least significant bit level to the most significant bit level. A memory stores each sample in a respective one of m storage locations, each storage location including n storage compartments for storing the n bits of a sample, respectively. All of the bits of one level are serially read out from the corresponding storage compartment in all of the n storage locations, and then all of the bits of the next level are read out from the corresponding storage compartment in all of the m storage locations, and so on, in succession, until the bits of all levels have been read out from the m storage locations. For example, all of the least significant bits of the m storage locations are read out serially, then the next more significant bits in all of the m storage locations are read out, and so on, until all of the most significant bits are read out of the m storage locations. An enablin…

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