X-Y Serial shift panel
AssigneeModern Controls, Inc.
InventorWilliam N. Mayer
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Abstract
Apparatus for providing a visual information screen by means of a plurality of gas cells serially arranged along gas channels within a glass panel, having orthogonal parallel conductors in dielectric separation over the channels, wherein a single electrical input circuit is utilized to ignite a gas cell which may be serially shifted to selected gas channels and subsequently parallel shifted with other similar gas cells along the channels by electrical excitation of the conductors.
Claims15
An apparatus for displaying information in dot matrix form through the combined and selected ignition of gaseous regions in a panel having a plurality of gas-filled channels and voltage-energized conductors associated therewith, comprising
- (a) a predetermined number of gas channels in parallel alignment in said panel;
- (b) an orthogonal gas channel positioned adjacent one end of all of said parallel channels and opening into said parallel channels;
- (c) means for selectively and serially shifting one or more gaseous ignition regions along said orthogonal gas channel;
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- (d) means for parallel shifting all of said serially-shifted gaseous ignition regions into and along said parallel gas channels.
In a gas display panel of the type comprising a plurality of glass layers and having conductors embedded therein and parallel gas channels orthogonally adjacent to and in dielectric separation from said conductors, the improvement comprising a further gas channel positioned adjacent the ends of said parallel gas channels and orthogonal thereto, each of said parallel gas channels opening into said further gas channel.
A method of entering visual display information serially into a gas display dot matrix panel and for forming therefrom an image in parallel, comprising the steps of:
- (a) serially transferring a dot matrix segment corresponding to a line portion of said image into a line position adjacent the end of said panel;
- (b) parallel transferring said dot matrix segment into a first line position in said panel;
- (c) serially transferring a dot matrix segment corresponding to a further line portion of said image into said line position adjacent the end of said panel;
- (d) parallel transferring said further line dot matrix segment and said previous line dot matrix segment respectively into a first and second line position in said panel;
- (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) for all subsequent line portions of said image;
- wherein step (d) further comprises parallel transferring all previous line dot matrix segments respectively into one further line position in said panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.