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US 6,642,937 B2Granted
Screen display system
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsSandor Gyarmati, Rainer Schweer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for displaying screen elements on a reproduction screen. A predetermined number of pixels (Pa1 . . . Pej) of a reproduction line (L1 . . . Lm) are combined to form a cell (C11 . . . Cmn). A reproduction line (L1 . . . Lm) is formed from a fixedly predetermined number of cells (C11 . . . Cmn).
Claims3
A method for displaying screen elements on a reproduction screen, comprising:
- subdividing a reproduction line of n-j horizontally adjacent pixels into n equally sized cells of j pixels, wherein each cell comprises only pixels of said reproduction line;
- defining independent rectangular screen elements as objects consisting of least one cell;
- storing the cells of said objects successively in a picture memory;
- reading-out said stored cells from the picture memory;
- and
- displaying said read-out cells of said objects, wherein read-out cells are vertically positioned or shifted in a line-by-line manner and horizontally positioned or shifted in a cell-by-cell manner.
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