GB1419048A - Data handling system having a plurality of interrelated character generators - Google Patents

Data handling system having a plurality of interrelated character generators

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Publication number
GB1419048A
GB1419048A GB1188074A GB1188074A GB1419048A GB 1419048 A GB1419048 A GB 1419048A GB 1188074 A GB1188074 A GB 1188074A GB 1188074 A GB1188074 A GB 1188074A GB 1419048 A GB1419048 A GB 1419048A
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data
characters
generator
character
character generator
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Unisys Corp
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Burroughs Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G1/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with cathode-ray tube indicators; General aspects or details, e.g. selection emphasis on particular characters, dashed line or dotted line generation; Preprocessing of data
    • G09G1/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with cathode-ray tube indicators; General aspects or details, e.g. selection emphasis on particular characters, dashed line or dotted line generation; Preprocessing of data using multi-beam tubes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
    • G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
    • G09G3/22—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources
    • G09G3/28—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels
    • G09G3/282—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels using DC panels
    • G09G3/285—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels using DC panels using self-scanning
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
    • G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
    • G09G3/22—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources
    • G09G3/28—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels
    • G09G3/288—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels using AC panels
    • G09G3/29—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters using controlled light sources using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels using AC panels using self-shift panels with sequential transfer of the discharges from an input position to a further display position
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/22—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory
    • G09G5/24—Generation of individual character patterns

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • Remote Sensing (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Radar, Positioning & Navigation (AREA)
  • Compression, Expansion, Code Conversion, And Decoders (AREA)
  • Record Information Processing For Printing (AREA)
  • Digital Computer Display Output (AREA)
  • Control Of Indicators Other Than Cathode Ray Tubes (AREA)

Abstract

1419048 Cathode-ray tube displays BURROUGHS CORP 18 March 1974 [16 April 1973] 11880/74 Heading H4T In a data display system data specifying characters of a first group are supplied to a first character generator the output of which controls a display device (a cathode-ray tube or a Self- Scan panel) whilst data specifying a second group of characters are supplied to a second character generator the output of which also controls the display device. The first character generator is concerned with displaying all of the characters employed in the country in which the system is operated (some of which characters may be common to the machine language of foreign countries) whilst the second character generator is concerned with displaying respective different sets of unique characters employed in each of a number of foreign countries such as shown in Fig. 1, where the U.S.A. is deemed to be the user country. As shown in Fig. 2, all of the data, derived from a computer 20 is supplied via a memory 30 to a storage buffer 40 the output of which is supplied directly to the first character generator 50 and to the second character generator 70 via an encoder 100 and a full adder 80. Generator 50 responds to all of the user country character data including data common to some foreign countries and displays the corresponding characters on device 60. When, however, the codes of the data of the second group of characters, e.g. those listed in Fig. 1, occur, encoder 100 responds and via character generator control 102, arrests the operation of generator 50 and enables the operation of generator 70. Encoder 100 also supplies the character data of the second group as one input to the full adder 80 which receives, as a second input, an identifying code, unique to a particular foreign country, generated by a country selector 90 and changeable by means of "jumper", connections. The output of adder 80 then comprises a signal which accesses the section (Fig. 3, not shown) in character generator 70 in which the selected character data is located and such data then provides the required display on the device 60. A plurality of character generators similar to generator 70 concerned with the display of characters unique to foreign countries additional to those indicated in Fig. 1 may be employed (Fig. 6, not shown). Details of the logic circuits in elements 40, 90, 100 and 102 are described with reference to Figs. 4 and 5 (neither shown) and a schematic arrangement of a Self-Scan panel of the dot-matrix display type is described with reference to Fig. 7 (not shown).
GB1188074A 1973-04-16 1974-03-18 Data handling system having a plurality of interrelated character generators Expired GB1419048A (en)

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EP0075673A1 (en) * 1981-09-11 1983-04-06 International Business Machines Corporation A method of retrieving character symbol data elements for a display and apparatus therefore

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0075673A1 (en) * 1981-09-11 1983-04-06 International Business Machines Corporation A method of retrieving character symbol data elements for a display and apparatus therefore

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PS Patent sealed
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PCNP Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee