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(11) EP 0 457 497 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
26.05.1993 Bulletin 1993/21

(43) Date of publication A2:
21.11.1991 Bulletin 1991/47

(21) Application number: 91304179.4

(22) Date of filing: 09.05.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5G09G 1/16, G09G 3/00, G01R 13/26, G01R 13/34
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 16.05.1990 JP 127335/90

(71) Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Kadoma-shi, Osaka-fu, 571 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Mihara, Masahiro
    Itabashi-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Smith, Norman Ian et al
F.J. CLEVELAND & COMPANY 40-43 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1JQ
London WC2A 1JQ (GB)


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    (54) Waveform displaying device


    (57) A waveform displaying device, in which a measured analogue signal is converted into a digital signal by means of an analogue to digital converter and thereafter the digital signal is directly inputted in a display device (19) such as a raster scanning display, a liquid crystal display device, effecting the display while controlling the brightness of pixels so as to reproduce to display waveform of the measured analogue signal. In the present device the brightness of pixels is varied, depending on slew rate of the waveform, so that the brightness of interpolation lines is increased, when differences between inputted waveform data are small, and the brightness is decreased, when the differences are small. Further places, where the density of waveforms is high, are displayed brightly by accumulating the brightness thereof. In this way, since peculiar points in the waveforms such as points, at which the phase, the frequency or the amplitude is varied, are displayed as points, at which the brightness is varied, it is possible to find easily these points and further observation is easy, also in the case where a number of waveforms are displayed, superposed on each other.







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