Abstract:
A subsystem of an apparatus that receives characterrepresentative signals and generates video control signals and keying control signals that are suitable for controlling a scanned display to present contrasting character images. A stroke generator means, responsive to the character-representative signals, generates a stroke of a character to be displayed. The stroke consists of a plurality of time sequential bits corresponding to a sequence of display events and a plurality of code bits that distinguish between contrasting portions of the sequence of display events. A decoding means is responsive to the time sequential bits and the code bits and generates keying control signals and video control signals that are suitable for controlling a scanned display to present contrasted images of characters to be displayed. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the code bits are representative of the keying and video portions of the sequence of display events. The coding means produces signals that disable the generation of video signal during selected stroke portions, the code bits being determinative of which portions of the display event are to be disabled.