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EP0054451A1 - Anzeigevorrichtung mit Segmenten und Punkten, insbesondere geeignet für arabische Schrift - Google Patents

Anzeigevorrichtung mit Segmenten und Punkten, insbesondere geeignet für arabische Schrift Download PDF

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EP0054451A1
EP0054451A1 EP81401784A EP81401784A EP0054451A1 EP 0054451 A1 EP0054451 A1 EP 0054451A1 EP 81401784 A EP81401784 A EP 81401784A EP 81401784 A EP81401784 A EP 81401784A EP 0054451 A1 EP0054451 A1 EP 0054451A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
    • G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
    • G09F9/302—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements characterised by the form or geometrical disposition of the individual elements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G9/00—Visual time or date indication means
    • G04G9/08—Visual time or date indication means by building-up characters using a combination of indicating elements, e.g. by using multiplexing techniques

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  • the invention relates to a display device with segments and dots, particularly applicable to a simplified writing of the Arabic language.
  • Devices for viewing stylized alpha-numeric symbols by displaying line segments are known.
  • the control means of these display devices comprise a limited number of on-off commands which allow simultaneous display of all the symbols of a writing line.
  • These devices include light emitting diodes or liquid crystals which are electrically controlled by two-state signals. These diodes or liquid crystals are arranged in matrices repeating a certain number of times a basic pattern comprising all the segments which can be used to form these alpha-numeric symbols.
  • the simplest conventional display devices include matrices, formed by repeating a basic seven-segment pattern for digital display, and fourteen segments for alpha-numeric display these patterns. base repeated being disjoint. Because the basic pattern consists of straight lines, the curvilinear aspect of classical writing is not rendered, but the graphics are understandable.
  • the subject of the invention is a display device with segments and dots, in particular applicable to the writing of the Arabic language, comprising a matrix formed by the repetition of a simple basic pattern. All the stylized letters of the Arabic alphabet can be written in this matrix.
  • a segment and dot display device comprising a display matrix and a control device
  • the display matrix is formed by the repetition, on a writing line and without space, of a basic pattern comprising at most seven line segments and four points, these line segments being three end-to-end vertical segments and at most four overlapping horizontal line segments of the same length, each having a common end with one end of a vertical segment, two points being placed on a horizontal line in the upper third of the basic pattern thus determined and two other points being placed on a horizontal line in the lower third of this same basic pattern, each of these elements, segment or point, being controlled independently.
  • the stylized characters displayable in a segment and dot matrix corresponding to the curvilinear Arabic characters must be such that they use a minimum of segments, horizontal segments and vertical segments so that the structure of the resulting matrix is as simple as possible.
  • all characters must be able to be distinguished from each other and be able to be possibly written in several ways. Indeed, in Arabic writing, letters are often written differently depending on whether they are placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the word or whether they are isolated.
  • FIG. 1 represents a series of stylized Arabic characters, this stylized series comprising simplifications of writing used in the Arab countries and understood by their inhabitants. In this suite a letter is represented by the same symbol, regardless of its position in the word.
  • the letters are stylized into vertical segments of height equal to one third of the maximum height of a letter and into horizontal segments of the width of this pattern, having common ends with the first segments.
  • the points necessary for understanding the letters are placed in the upper third or in the lower third of the height used. In general, these points are placed relative to the segments in the same way as in classical writing except for two of these letters where the points are inside a square while they are in the classical writing above the loop symbolized by this square.
  • This first embodiment of the basic pattern and the corresponding matrix are shown in Figures 2a and 2b.
  • This pattern shown in Figure 2a has three vertical segments end to end and four overlapping horizontal segments having a common end with one end of at least one vertical segment. These segments therefore separate the space of a basic pattern into three squares. Two points are placed side by side in the upper square and two other points are placed side by side in the lower square.
  • the matrix shown in Figure 2b consists of a succession of these basic patterns joined to each other, with no space between them.
  • the stylization of the upper letters which also include dots above is carried out in a different manner.
  • the simplification then consists in representing them with a reduced height, the points then being suitably placed when, as before they are placed in the upper third of the height.
  • the corresponding figuration is represented in brackets next to the first figuration mode.
  • This figuration brings a simplification in the basic pattern compared to the previous one because the letters which, in the first mode of figuration, include a horizontal segment at the upper limit of the height of the space used are figured differently. Consequently, this segment can be deleted in the basic pattern and each basic pattern only requires ten commands instead of eleven.
  • the basic pattern corresponding to this second figuration and the corresponding matrix are represented in FIGS. 3a and 3c, the matrix being constructed from the basic pattern as for the first embodiment.
  • FIG. 4a represents the writing in classical Arabic of the translation of "our book”
  • FIG. 4b represents its writing in the display matrices described above.
  • the arrays can be produced for example with light-emitting diodes, with electrically controlled liquid crystals or even for mechanically controlled display devices with double-sided plates capable of being turned over. .
  • the control devices associated with these different types of display matrices are known.
  • the invention is not limited to the figuration of letters, in the embodiments of the display matrix precisely described, according to the table in Figure 1.
  • the different letters can be lengthened and stylized on more patterns basic than what has been shown in this figure and can be modified, provided that the modifications introduced are in one or the other of the two embodiments of matrices described and that there is no ambiguity in the writing of these letters.

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EP81401784A 1980-12-02 1981-11-10 Anzeigevorrichtung mit Segmenten und Punkten, insbesondere geeignet für arabische Schrift Expired EP0054451B1 (de)

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FR8025558A FR2495364A1 (fr) 1980-12-02 1980-12-02 Dispositif d'affichage a segments et a points et systeme de visualisation comportant un tel dispositif
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