Encoding technique for enabling a device to process different types of digital information transmitted along a single information channel
First Claim
1. In a display system including a first unit for transmitting digital information including video character and control information signals to a second unit for use in a cathode ray tube display device, an interconnection system comprising:
- a bus directly coupling said first unit to said second unit;
transmit means included within said first unit for applying said video character and control information signals to said bus, each different type of information being pulse coded into groups of coded pulses having the same pulse width with a predetermined one of a plurality of different pulse widths; and
,receive means included within said second unit coupled to said bus for separating said video characters pulses and control pulses on the basis of their pulse widths from said information signals for distribution to a different predetermined one of a number of output terminals included in said device for subsequent processing by different portions of said display device.
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Abstract
A data processing system includes a first device which transmits different types of pulse coded digital information along a single channel to a second device for separation and distribution to a number of different outputs. The different types of digital information transmitted are encoded with different pulse widths. The pulse widths for the different types of information are selected to provide highly reliable data transmission. The second device includes a receive section which has a plurality of detectors. Each of these detectors operate to detect only the pulse coded digital information encoded with predetermined pulse widths and pass them to its output. The system accommodates bidirectional transmission and processing of the encoded digital information by including like transmit and receive sections within each device.
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13 Claims
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1. In a display system including a first unit for transmitting digital information including video character and control information signals to a second unit for use in a cathode ray tube display device, an interconnection system comprising:
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a bus directly coupling said first unit to said second unit; transmit means included within said first unit for applying said video character and control information signals to said bus, each different type of information being pulse coded into groups of coded pulses having the same pulse width with a predetermined one of a plurality of different pulse widths; and
,receive means included within said second unit coupled to said bus for separating said video characters pulses and control pulses on the basis of their pulse widths from said information signals for distribution to a different predetermined one of a number of output terminals included in said device for subsequent processing by different portions of said display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a display control system including a cluster control device and at least one CRT display device an interconnection network comprising:
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first means included within said cluster control unit for transmitting and receiving signals to and from said control unit, said first means including a transmit section (T-100) having a plurality of inputs and at least one output and a receive section (R-100) having at least one input and a plurality of output terminals; second means included within said display unit for transmitting and receiving signals to and from said display unit, said means including a transmit section (T-200) having a plurality of inputs and at least one output and a receive section (R-200) having at least one input and a plurality of outputs; a twisted conductor means for directly interconnecting said first means and second means, said first means being enabled by said cluster control unit to condition said transmit section (T-100) to transmit different types of digital information signals including pulse coded video character information and at least two types of pulse coded video control information encoded into groups of coded pulses with different pulse widths the pulses within each group having the same predetermined pulse width in a predetermined sequence and, said second means being enabled by said display unit to condition said receive section (R-200) to detect said video character and video control digital information signals on the basis of pulse widths and distribute said groups of pulses corresponding to each type of information to a predeterined one of said output terminals. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. In a digital display system including a transmitter station for transmitting digital coded information coded with different pulse widths so as to define video information and at least first and second kinds of control video information, and a receiver station for supplying each different type of digital information signals to different portions of a CRT display unit, an interconnection network comprising:
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a bus directly coupling said transmitter station to said receiver station; and said receiver station including a plurality of detectors, each detector including input means and output means, each of said input means being connected to receive said digital information encoded into groups of coded pulses having the same predetermined pulse width within a range of pulse widths, said pulse width of said first and second kinds of control information each having different ranges of pulse widths, each of said detectors including pulse generating means for generating a pulse whose width defines the type of digital information being detected by the detector selected to process same and, each of said detectors including means for comparing said generated pulse with the transmitted digital information pulses so as to produce a signal at said output means only in response to digital information pulses whose width is within the range of pulse widths characteristic of said type of information detectable by said detector.
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