摘要:
In an image displaying field where there is a tendency which will increase the data to be handled in accordance with the high integration of a display device, a CRT controller according to the present invention improves the superposed display and the responsiveness of the display and drawing operations by dividing a unit clock into a predetermined number to function with high speed and a multifunctional display. When image data are to be inputted or outputted from a refresh memory corresponding to a display frame, the memory content and the display address are assigned at a ratio of 1:n to effect the processings in parallel. As a result, the time period utilized by the display cycle of the prior art can be assigned to the drawing operation so that the processing can be speeded up while making it easier than the prior art to effect the superposed display of letters, symbols and drawings. The resultant effect is that it is unnecessary to increase the number of refresh memories corresponding to the displayed frame and that the external parts can be simplified to contribute to the improvement in the reliability.
摘要:
An image display system (10) includes an image buffer (20,22) having a plurality of addressable locations for storing image pixel data. The system further includes circuitry (24,34,36) coupled to an output of the image buffer for converting image pixel data read therefrom to electrical signals for driving an image display (18). The circuitry is responsive to signals generated by an image display controller (16) for generating one of a plurality of different timing formats for the electrical signals for driving an image display having a specified display resolution. The apparatus further includes circuitry (40,42) for configuring the image buffer in accordance with the specified display resolution. The image buffer is configurable, by example, as two, 2048 location by 1024 location by 24-bit buffers and one 2048 location by 1024 location by 16-bit buffer; or as two, 2048 location by 2048 location by 24-bit buffers and one 2048 location by 2048 location by 16-bit buffer. Each of the 24-bit buffers store R,G,B pixel data and the 16-bit buffers each store a color index (CI) value and an associated window identifier (WID) value. Circuitry at the output of the image buffer decodes CI and WID values into R,G,B pixel data and a Key value specifying pixel mixing.
摘要:
An improved video window control apparatus and a method thereof which are capable of generating a plurality of video windows on a television or a computer monitor, controlling the size and position thereof, and providing a video window overlap function and a picture-in-picture function. The apparatus includes a video window flow control means for controlling the size based on an input control of a video window and a position and overlap of the video windows based on a video output control and for outputting a video windows input control signal, a video output control signal, and a video selection signal, a plurality of video memory means for receiving a video signal outputted from an external video input and processing means in accordance with the video input control signal and for limitedly outputting the video signals in accordance with a video output control signal, and a video combining means for combining the video signals from the video memory into one video signal in accordance with the video selection signal and for outputting the video signal to an external video output means.
摘要:
This invention relates to a video graphic control method and controller for sending to a display device graphic data from a processing device, and the object thereof is to provide a video graphic controller that increases the bandwidth available to a graphic engine or CPU without increasing power consumption or manufacturing costs, even when used with a conventional frame memory. A video graphic controller for controlling video data by storing the video data from a CPU 4 in a frame memory 18 and causing the frame memory 18 to output the data to a display device 30 uses a video data comparison means 20 to compare a piece of video data stored in the N-th address of the frame memory 18 to another piece of video data stored in the N-1-th address in order to determine whether the two pieces of data match, and if the two pieces of data match, outputs to the display device 30 the piece of video data stored in the N-1-th address instead of the piece of video data stored in the N-th address.
摘要:
A video signal of a still image is written into a still image area SIA in a video memory 310, whereas a video signal of a moving picture is written into a moving picture area MIA in the video memory 310. A video signal is read out from the video memory 310 while scaling up or down the video image, and the scaled video signal is then supplied to a display device. This enables a scaled moving picture and a scaled still image to be displayed on the display device.
摘要:
Memory addressing apparatus and method for block scan and raster scan in an apparatus for processing image data of which the horizontal resolution is H and the vertical resolution is V. The memory addressing apparatus includes a horizontal counter for outputting a value sequentially incremented by a write or read signal for storing or reading image data in or from the memory, a vertical counter for outputting a value sequentially incremented by a horizontal synchronizing signal included in the image data, and an address generator for generating an address for raster scan or block scan according to a control signal by the horizontal and the vertical count values. Accordingly, memory address generating functions for raster scan and block scan are integrated into one unit, thereby the amount of required hardware is reduced, and simple design and structure of the apparatus reduce manufacturing cost.
摘要:
A memory system 107,300 is provided which includes a memory 107 having a data area for storing data words and a mask area 302 for storing a control mask. Mask generation circuitry 301 is provided for generating such a control mask for storage in the mask area 302 of the memory 107. Mask controlled memory read control circuitry 303 is provided which is operable to selectively retrieve from the mask area 302 bits of the mask stored therein and in response selectively retrieve and output data words stored in the data area of the memory 107.
摘要:
A computer system is provided which employs a hardware rotation unit capable of rotating a raster-scan portrait image by 90 degrees in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction in order to create a landscape image on a raster-scan display device. Rotation of a portrait image is accomplished by a mapping of pixel information associated with the portrait image to corresponding frame buffer locations necessary to properly display the portrait image as a landscape image. A video controller incorporating the hardware rotation unit stores only pixel information associated with the landscape image in a frame buffer. Dedicated circuitry within the hardware rotation unit allows full support of portrait image data read and write operations involving the landscape image pixel information stored in the frame buffer.
摘要:
A single-chip video-graphics controller includes a novel circuit for eliminating full line buffers when reducing line-to-line flicker in a display image of non-interlaced data on an interlaced color display device such as an NTSC or PAL television projector. The flicker reduction circuit uses a pair of memory access agents for concurrently fetching even and odd interlace frames of the display image. Corresponding color pixels of the two frames are averaged on-the-fly, and the averaged output is converted to analog RGB output signals for driving the display device. The elimination of the full line buffers results in a savings of approximately 30,000 transistors per buffer and a corresponding reduction in operating power. A specific embodiment of the controller includes a vertical stretching circuit used to adjust the number of vertical lines corresponding to the display image permitting the vertical reformatting of any display image.
摘要:
An image display control apparatus comprising: a plurality of image data storing units, provided corresponding to the plurality of the frames, for storing image data of frames respectively; priority display data storing unit for storing priority display data indicative of displaying image data of each frame on a priority basis; first image data comparing unit for comparing image data output from image data storing means corresponding to a frame having a highest order of the hierarchical relationship among the plurality of the frames with data stored in the priority display data storing unit; and image data selecting unit for selecting and outputting image data output from image data storing unit which stores image data of a frame having priority the priority display data indicates among the plurality of image data storing unit when it is judged that the priority display data are output from the image data storing unit as a result of comparison of the first image data comparing unit.