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EP 0244280 B1 19900627 - VIDEO ATTRIBUTES DECODER FOR A COLOUR OR MONOCHROME DISPLAY IN A TELETEXT MODE OR IN A HIGH-DEFINITION ALPHANUMERICAL MODE

Title (en)

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES DECODER FOR A COLOUR OR MONOCHROME DISPLAY IN A TELETEXT MODE OR IN A HIGH-DEFINITION ALPHANUMERICAL MODE

Publication

EP 0244280 B1 19900627 (FR)

Application

EP 87400711 A 19870401

Priority

FR 8605682 A 19860421

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4831369A] The present invention relates to a video attributes decoder for color or monochrome display in the videotext mode or in the high-resolution alphanumeric mode, with a choice, in the videotext mode, between the alphanumeric and the semigraphic mode. The decoder is made up of a clock circuit (25), a configuration register (23), a character atrributes register (22), a line attributes register (32, 33), an attributes decoding circuit (21) connected to these various registers, a character masking circuit (41), a serializer (40) connected to the masking circuit (41) and to the clock circuit (25), a background inversion circuit (53), a character color control circuit (51) and a background color control circuit (52). The last three circuits are connected at the input to the attribute decoder circuit and at the output to the circuit (50) for multiplexing and controlling the monitor guns. The output (402) of the serializer circuit (40) is transmitted over a dot broadening circuit (54). The output (542) of the dot broadening circuit is connected to an input of the multiplexing circuit. A double-height logic circuit (31) is operably connected between the line attributes register (33) and selection lines (LC0, LC3) for selecting one group of characters within a character generator read-only memory (15).

IPC 1-7

G09G 1/14; G09G 1/16; G09G 1/28

IPC 8 full level

G09G 1/14 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G09G 5/30 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

G09G 1/14 (2013.01 - EP US); G09G 5/02 (2013.01 - EP US); G09G 5/30 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE ES GB IT NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0244280 A1 19871104; EP 0244280 B1 19900627; DE 3763466 D1 19900802; ES 2016632 B3 19901116; FR 2597691 A1 19871023; FR 2597691 B1 19880610; US 4831369 A 19890516

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87400711 A 19870401; DE 3763466 T 19870401; ES 87400711 T 19870401; FR 8605682 A 19860421; US 4100887 A 19870421