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High resolution monitor interface and related interfacing method

US4796203A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 1986
Grant dateJan 3, 1989
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Expiry dateAug 26, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G5/393
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An interface, between a display monitor and a source of image information for display as pixels at display locations of the monitor, the interface comprising: a monitor input terminal for receipt of image information for display on the monitor; a refresh memory for storing image information at memory locations corresponding to the display locations of the monitor; a device for sequentially reading the image information from the memory locations of the refresh memory to the monitor input terminal for display at the corresponding display locations of the monitor; a device for storing new image information for one of the memory locations of the refresh memory; and a device for replacing sequential reading of the image information from said refresh memory at the one of the memory locations with: (i) reading of new image information from the new information store to the monitor input terminal for display of the new image information at the discrete display location of the monitor corresponding to the one of the memory locations, and (ii) writing the new image information from the new information store to the one of the memory location of the refresh memory. A related method is also prov…

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