Apparatus for scrolling a video display
    1.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for scrolling a video display 失效
    用于滚动视频显示器的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4445114A

    公开(公告)日:1984-04-24

    申请号:US193699

    申请日:1980-10-03

    申请人: David R. Stubben

    发明人: David R. Stubben

    IPC分类号: G09G5/34 H04N5/262 G09G1/16

    CPC分类号: H04N5/262 G09G5/343

    摘要: A video game includes apparatus for scrolling playfield objects appearing on the display unit of the game. The apparatus selectively offsets the address used to access an addressable random access memory containing data indicative of the TV picture displayed. The random access data, when accessed, is used to address a video data memory which provides the building block components of the video display. Further scrolling effect is obtained by selectively delaying the video data communicated to the video display unit.

    摘要翻译: 视频游戏包括用于滚动出现在游戏的显示单元上的播放对象物体的装置。 该装置选择性地偏移用于访问包含指示所显示的TV图像的数据的可寻址随机存取存储器的地址。 随机访问数据被访问时用于寻址提供视频显示的构建块组件的视频数据存储器。 通过选择性地延迟传送到视频显示单元的视频数据来获得进一步的滚动效果。

    Data processing system with programmable graphics generator
    2.
    发明授权
    Data processing system with programmable graphics generator 失效
    数据处理系统与可编程图形发生器

    公开(公告)号:US4435779A

    公开(公告)日:1984-03-06

    申请号:US271324

    申请日:1981-06-08

    摘要: A microprocessor based data processing system including a microprocessor, a memory unit, and a display unit is provided with a programmable graphics generator that transfers graphics information from the memory unit to the display unit in response to and control of a set of display instructions also stored in the memory unit. The graphics generator includes a first addressing unit for sequentially accessing the display instructions from the memory unit; a control unit for receiving, storing and decoding such instruction and for issuing supervisory and control signals in response to the binary state of each instruction; a second addressing unit for accessing graphics information from the memory unit in response to the supervisory signals from the control unit; and a third addressing unit for accessing movable object graphics stored in the memory unit.

    摘要翻译: 包括微处理器,存储器单元和显示单元的基于微处理器的数据处理系统设置有可编程图形生成器,其响应于并且控制也存储的一组显示指令将图形信息从存储器单元传送到显示单元 在内存单元中。 图形生成器包括用于从存储器单元顺序访问显示指令的第一寻址单元; 控制单元,用于接收,存储和解码这样的指令,并响应于每条指令的二进制状态发出监控信号; 第二寻址单元,用于响应于来自控制单元的监控信号从存储器单元访问图形信息; 以及用于访问存储在存储器单元中的可移动对象图形的第三寻址单元。

    Deformable switch keyboard
    5.
    发明授权
    Deformable switch keyboard 失效
    可变形开关键盘

    公开(公告)号:US4375585A

    公开(公告)日:1983-03-01

    申请号:US387900

    申请日:1982-06-14

    申请人: Hugh Lee

    发明人: Hugh Lee

    IPC分类号: H01H13/702 H01H13/70 H01H9/00

    摘要: A deformable switch keyboard assembly with a flexible unitary top member, a compressible intermediate switch assembly layer and a bottom member providing mechanical support for the intermediate assembly and mechanical isolation for the switching function.The top member has a plurality of switch site defining regions extending in a first direction and located in a predetermined array to define the keyboard. The intermediate switch assembly has a plurality of switch sites each underlying a different one of the top member projections. The bottom member has first and second sets of projections extending toward the top member, each of the first set of projections underlying a different one of the switch sites and providing a compression contact beneath the intermediate switch assembly when the corresponding top member region is actuated to advance in the first direction. Each of the second set of projections is located intermediate different adjacent ones of the switch sites and is longer than any of the first set of projections in order to provide mechanical isolation between an actuated switch site and the remainder of the switch sites.

    摘要翻译: 具有柔性整体顶部构件的可变形开关键盘组件,可压缩中间开关组件层和为中间组件提供机械支撑的底部构件以及用于开关功能的机械隔离。 顶部构件具有沿着第一方向延伸并且以预定阵列定位以限定键盘的多个开关部位限定区域。 中间开关组件具有多个开关位置,每个开关位置各自位于不同的顶部构件突出部之下。 底部构件具有朝向顶部构件延伸的第一组和第二组突起,每个第一组突起位于不同的开关位置之下,并且当对应的顶部构件区域被致动到中间开关组件下方时提供压缩接触 在第一个方向前进。 所述第二组突起中的每一个位于所述开关位置的不同相邻位置之间并且比所述第一组突起中的任一个更长,以便在致动的开关位置与所述开关位置的其余部分之间提供机械隔离。

    Bank switchable memory system
    6.
    发明授权
    Bank switchable memory system 失效
    银行可切换存储系统

    公开(公告)号:US4368515A

    公开(公告)日:1983-01-11

    申请号:US261301

    申请日:1981-05-07

    申请人: Carl J. Nielsen

    发明人: Carl J. Nielsen

    CPC分类号: G06F12/0623 G11C8/12

    摘要: A decoding circuit is coupled to the signal lines that communicate address signals to a memory unit. When a predetermined address is communicated, the decoding circuit produces a supplemental signal that is coupled to the memory unit and used to select one of a plurality of groups of memory locations. The communicated address signals specify the memory location of the selected group to be accessed.

    摘要翻译: 解码电路耦合到将地址信号传送到存储器单元的信号线。 当传送预定的地址时,解码电路产生一个附加信号,该信号被耦合到存储器单元并用于选择多组存储器位置之一。 传送的地址信号指定要访问的所选择的组的存储器位置。

    Dual floppy disc machine
    7.
    发明授权
    Dual floppy disc machine 失效
    双软盘机

    公开(公告)号:US4339778A

    公开(公告)日:1982-07-13

    申请号:US139534

    申请日:1980-04-11

    申请人: Eugene H. Wise

    发明人: Eugene H. Wise

    摘要: A single device for driving a pair of floppy discs, preferably the smaller mini floppy discs, is disclosed herein and identified as a dual floppy disc machine. A drive motor is coupled to a pair of rotatable spindles mounted side by side. The spindles receive respective floppy discs thereon, and are driven at a speed not to exceed 50 rpm, much lower than the speed of conventional floppy disc machines. A pair of read/write heads are provided which have a capacity of reading no more than 20,000 bits per second, again well below conventional rates but sufficient for the speeds used in the present invention. A single carriage has both read/write heads mounted thereon in spaced relationship, and is moveable along an axis bisecting a line connecting the centers of the spindles. As a result, the read/write heads are moveable in unison radially relative to the respective spindles. A stepping motor is coupled to the carriage to move the carriage along its axis. The pair of floppy discs are clamped to their respective spindles, and the read/write heads are biased against the respective discs so that both discs can be utilized.

    摘要翻译: 本文公开了用于驱动一对软盘,优选较小的小型软盘的单个设备,并被标识为双软盘机。 驱动马达与并排安装的一对可旋转主轴连接。 主轴在其上接收各自的软盘,并以不超过50rpm的速度驱动,远低于常规软盘机的速度。 提供了一对读/写头,其具有每秒读取不超过20,000位的能力,这仍然远低于常规速率,但对于本发明中使用的速度是足够的。 单个托架具有以间隔的关系安装在其上的读/写头,并且可沿着将连接心轴中心的线平分的轴线移动。 结果,读/写头可以相对于相应的主轴径向地一体地移动。 步进电机联接到滑架以沿其轴线移动滑架。 一对软盘被夹紧到它们各自的主轴上,并且读/写头被偏压到相应的盘上,从而可以利用两个盘。

    Apparatus for producing a plurality of audio sound effects
    8.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for producing a plurality of audio sound effects 失效
    用于产生多个音频声音效果的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4314236A

    公开(公告)日:1982-02-02

    申请号:US6048

    申请日:1979-01-24

    IPC分类号: A63H17/34 G10K15/02 G08B3/00

    摘要: Apparatus for producing a plurality of audio sound effects such as shots, explosions, and airplane and car sounds, used in electronic games utilizes a variable clock driving a variable digital noise generator whose audio output amplitude is shaped by either of two types of control units. In one type the density or duty cycle is varied by selectively ANDing together outputs from a polynomial counter. In a second embodiment a digital to analog converter utilizing gated resistive summing provides the amplitude control the gates being driven by a four bit data register which in turn is driven by the game control means.

    摘要翻译: 用于产生电子游戏中使用的诸如镜头,爆炸和飞机和汽车声音的多种音频声音效果的装置利用可变时钟来驱动可变数字噪声发生器,其音频输出幅度由两种类型的控制单元中的任一种形成。 在一种类型中,通过将来自多项式计数器的输出选择性地将归一化来改变密度或占空比。 在第二实施例中,利用门控电阻求和的数模转换器提供幅度控制,门由四位数据寄存器驱动,四位数据寄存器由游戏控制装置驱动。

    Joystick controller
    9.
    发明授权
    Joystick controller 失效
    操纵杆控制器

    公开(公告)号:US4275611A

    公开(公告)日:1981-06-30

    申请号:US25122

    申请日:1979-03-29

    申请人: James C. Asher

    发明人: James C. Asher

    摘要: An electrical control device having a joystick or lever manually movable in the X and Y directions to actuate a pair of electrical components having respective rotatable shafts. The controller includes a housing having a top cover provided with an opening through which the lever extends. The lower end of the lever is pivotally mounted in a socket on the bottom of the housing and a ball joint is carried by the lever intermediate its ends. The ball joint is pivotally coupled to a control plate shiftable in the housing beneath the top cover, the plate being biased into an equilibrium position by a number of leaf springs normally engaging respective side margins of the plate. The plate has a pair of slots in its lower surface, the slots being mutually perpendicular and vertical projections on the outer ends of a pair of bell cranks are shiftably received within respective slots in the plate. The bell cranks are coupled to the rotatable shafts of respective electrical components so that, when the plate is moved in any one of a number of different directions upon manual movement of the lever, one or both of the rotatable shafts of the electrical components are rotated to actuate the components.

    摘要翻译: 一种电气控制装置,其具有可在X和Y方向上手动移动的操纵杆或杆,以驱动具有相应可旋转轴的一对电气部件。 控制器包括具有顶盖的壳体,该顶盖设置有杆延伸穿过的开口。 杠杆的下端枢转地安装在壳体的底部上的插座中,并且球杆接头由杠杆在其端部之间承载。 球形接头枢转地联接到可在顶盖下方的壳体中移动的控制板,该板通过通常接合板的相应侧边缘的多个板簧被偏压到平衡位置。 该板在其下表面具有一对槽,所述狭槽相互垂直,并且一对钟形曲柄的外端上的垂直突起可移动地容纳在板中的各个槽内。 钟形曲柄联接到相应电气部件的可旋转轴,使得当手柄在手柄移动时板在多个不同方向中的任何一个中移动时,电气部件的一个或两个可旋转轴旋转 以启动组件。