Method for displaying picture animation on a display

• US 20060114259A1
• Filed: 11/30/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tatung Company
• Original Assignee: Tatung Company
• Inventors: Tseng, Shih-Hua
• Application Number:
  US11/289,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20060114259A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/026 Arrangements or methods related to booting a display
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A method for displaying a picture animation on a display utilizes execution of an OSD chip to present a picture animation, whereby both a power-on image from a computer and the monitor picture animation can be displayed at the same time. A user does not need to wait for the picture animation to finish displaying before seeing start-up information. The display can display the picture animation with or without use of a synchronization signal.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a picture animation on a display comprising:

(A) initialization;

(B) detecting whether there is an input synchronization signal;

if there is an input synchronization signal, the display displays an image according to the synchronization signal;

otherwise a microprocessor of the display outputs a control signal to drive the display;

(C) determining whether there is an input picture animation signal;

if there is an input picture animation signal, the display displays the picture animation; and

(D) determining whether there is an input stop signal;

if there is an input stop signal, display the picture animation is stopped;

otherwise display of the picture animation is continued until completion;

wherein the picture animation is displayed by an OSD chip.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step (B), the control signal is a constant horizontal signal and a constant vertical signal.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step (D), the stop signal is a key input signal.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the microprocessor of the display further comprises a re-writeable memory for storing the picture animation.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the picture animation is hexadecimal program code.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a picture transmission tool for designing pictures or downloading pictures from the Internet.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display is a CRT display.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display is an LCD display.