GB8911381D0 - Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer system - Google Patents

Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer system

Info

Publication number: GB8911381D0
Authority: GB; United Kingdom
Prior art keywords: computer system; output display; rapidly clearing; clearing; rapidly
Prior art date: 1988-10-07
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.): Granted

Application number

GB898911381A

Other versions

Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)

Sun Microsystems Inc

Original Assignee

Sun Microsystems Inc

Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)

1988-10-07

Filing date

1989-05-18

Publication date

1989-07-05

1989-05-18 Application filed by Sun Microsystems Inc filed Critical Sun Microsystems Inc

1989-07-05 Publication of GB8911381D0 publication Critical patent/GB8911381D0/en

1990-04-11 Publication of GB2223651A publication Critical patent/GB2223651A/en

1993-03-31 Application granted granted Critical

1993-03-31 Publication of GB2223651B publication Critical patent/GB2223651B/en

2009-05-18 Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Status Expired - Fee Related legal-status Critical Current

Classifications

- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
- G06F3/14—Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
- 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
- G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
- G09G5/39—Control of the bit-mapped memory
- G09G5/395—Arrangements specially adapted for transferring the contents of the bit-mapped memory to the screen
- 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
- G09G5/02—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed
- G09G5/024—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed using colour registers, e.g. to control background, foreground, surface filling
- 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
- G09G5/14—Display of multiple viewports
- 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
- G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
- G09G5/39—Control of the bit-mapped memory
- G09G5/393—Arrangements for updating the contents of the bit-mapped memory
- 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
- G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
- G09G5/39—Control of the bit-mapped memory
- G09G5/399—Control of the bit-mapped memory using two or more bit-mapped memories, the operations of which are switched in time, e.g. ping-pong buffers
- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
- G09G2340/00—Aspects of display data processing
- G09G2340/12—Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels

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Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
Human Computer Interaction (AREA)
General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
Controls And Circuits For Display Device (AREA)
Digital Computer Display Output (AREA)
Image Generation (AREA)
User Interface Of Digital Computer (AREA)

GB8911381A 1988-10-07 1989-05-18 Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer sytem Expired - Fee Related GB2223651B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
US25495788A	1988-10-07	1988-10-07

Publications (3)

Publication Number	Publication Date
GB8911381D0 true GB8911381D0 (en)	1989-07-05
GB2223651A GB2223651A (en)	1990-04-11
GB2223651B GB2223651B (en)	1993-03-31

Family

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Family Applications (1)

Application Number	Title	Priority Date	Filing Date
GB8911381A Expired - Fee Related GB2223651B (en)	1988-10-07	1989-05-18	Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer sytem

Country Status (6)

Country	Link
JP (1)	JP2858137B2 (en)
KR (1)	KR960003073B1 (en)
CA (1)	CA1316271C (en)
FR (1)	FR2637706B1 (en)
GB (1)	GB2223651B (en)
HK (1)	HK98793A (en)

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US5050102A (en) *	1989-04-28	1991-09-17	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Apparatus for rapidly switching between output display frames using a shared frame gentification memory
US5493637A (en) *	1992-12-04	1996-02-20	Network Computing Devices, Inc.	Video buffer recycling method and apparatus
US5519825A (en) *	1993-11-16	1996-05-21	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Method and apparatus for NTSC display of full range animation
US5537156A (en) *	1994-03-24	1996-07-16	Eastman Kodak Company	Frame buffer address generator for the mulitple format display of multiple format source video
US6288722B1 (en)	1996-10-17	2001-09-11	International Business Machines Corporation	Frame buffer reconfiguration during graphics processing based upon image attributes
JP2976945B2 (en) *	1997-09-11	1999-11-10	日本電気株式会社	Image drawing device
US7038689B2 (en) *	2002-02-19	2006-05-02	Intel Corporation	Sparse refresh double-buffering

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GB2113950B (en) *	1982-01-15	1986-10-01	Quantel Ltd	Image composition system
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JPS63118787A (en) *	1986-11-07	1988-05-23	株式会社日立製作所	Superimposition display system
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1989
- 1989-05-16 CA CA000599864A patent/CA1316271C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1989-05-18 GB GB8911381A patent/GB2223651B/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1989-06-28 FR FR8908612A patent/FR2637706B1/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1989-08-17 KR KR1019890011709A patent/KR960003073B1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1989-09-11 JP JP1233064A patent/JP2858137B2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
1993
- 1993-09-23 HK HK987/93A patent/HK98793A/en not_active IP Right Cessation

Also Published As

Publication number	Publication date
KR960003073B1 (en)	1996-03-04
GB2223651B (en)	1993-03-31
JPH02123422A (en)	1990-05-10
GB2223651A (en)	1990-04-11
FR2637706B1 (en)	1994-03-18
HK98793A (en)	1993-09-30
KR900007186A (en)	1990-05-09
FR2637706A1 (en)	1990-04-13
AU3458189A (en)	1990-04-12
AU616966B2 (en)	1991-11-14
CA1316271C (en)	1993-04-13
JP2858137B2 (en)	1999-02-17

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GB2231245B (en)	1993-09-22	Apparatus for selecting mode of output in a computer system
GB2224370B (en)	1993-08-04	Input display apparatus
GB2222923B (en)	1992-09-23	Display apparatus
AU5232696A (en)	1996-07-18	Display apparatus
GB2230924B (en)	1993-09-22	Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer system
GB8822120D0 (en)	1988-12-14	Optical display apparatus
GB8911381D0 (en)	1989-07-05	Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer system
GB2217882B (en)	1992-06-10	Arithmetic apparatus
GB2217883B (en)	1992-06-10	Arithmetic apparatus
GB8820013D0 (en)	1988-09-21	Display system
EP0348031A3 (en)	1990-08-16	Display system
SG1394G (en)	1994-06-10	Apparatus for rapidly clearing the output display of a computer system.
GB2221075B (en)	1992-12-23	Improved display apparatus
AU105162S (en)	1989-09-25	Computer system unit
GB2219672B (en)	1992-11-04	Display apparatus
SG1594G (en)	1994-06-10	Apparatus for selecting mode of output in a computer system.
GB8810543D0 (en)	1988-06-08	Display apparatus
GB8907738D0 (en)	1989-05-17	Display apparatus
ZA893480B (en)	1990-02-28	Display apparatus
AU103277S (en)	1989-03-09	Display apparatus
GB8811932D0 (en)	1988-06-22	Display apparatus
GB8819639D0 (en)	1988-09-21	Display apparatus
GB8814513D0 (en)	1988-07-20	Display apparatus
GB8813938D0 (en)	1988-07-20	Reconfigurable display apparatus
AU4014593A (en)	1993-08-26	Display apparatus

Legal Events

Date	Code	Title	Description
2007-01-24	PCNP	Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee	Effective date: 20060518