System for the display of images in half tones on a matrix screen
US5053764A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 3, 1988 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 3, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2320/0247
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The system enables the making of half-tones by using the control circuits of the matrix which are not usually designed for this purpose while producing no flicker effect. The system has a memory image with N (greater than or equal or 2) memory planes to store therein light information relating to each pixel in an N-bit word. The planes are read sequentially and thus make N-1 half-tones. In the simplest case (n=2), two planes are used and a first image is produced where any pixel is formed by a first bit, extracted from a first plane, and is preceded and followed, in rows as well as in columns, by a pixel formed by a first bit extraced from the other plane. The addressing is then determined to produce a second image by extracting, in reverse and respectively by each pixel, the second luminance bit in the other memory plane not used for the first image.
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