Digital display data processor
First Claim
1. An electronic processing system that saves computer software and computer time by receiving instruction and data words from a digital computer that contain information for automatically controlling the appearance at a particular X, Y position of desired graphical conical matter, alphanumeric characters and symbols of predetermined sizes on a plurality of individually addressable stroke writing cathode ray tubes, said processing system comprising:
- a. an interface that causes the instruction and data words of a digital computer to be electrically compatible with the remainder of said system so that the instruction and data words may be transferred from said computer;
b. a first-in-first-out instruction and data memory coupled to said interface so said instruction and data words which contain information on X, Y positioning, alphanumeric characters or symbol addressing, alphanumeric character size and conical radius and centering may be entered into said first-in-first-out memory and exit said memory serially in the order said data and instruction words entered said memory;
c. a first register coupled to said memory for temporarily storing at a given time one data word and/or one instruction word when the remainder of said system has completed the processing of the previous instruction and/or data word and is ready to process the next data or instruction word;
d. decoding means coupled to said first register for decoding the instructions stored in said register;
e. sequencing means coupled to said decoding means and said first register for controlled processing of said data word and/or said instruction word; and
f. a plurality of writing means for writing various types of conical graphical matter, alphanumeric characters and symbols on respective ones of said plurality of cathode ray tubes in accordance with the information given by said instruction and data words, said means coupled to said plurality of cathode ray tubes, said decoding means and said sequencing means, whereby said system follows the instructions and processes the data transmitted by said computer permitting said computer to process additional information since said computer will have less information to process because said computer will only send instruction and data words to said processing system when said computer wants to change the information and data currently appearng on one or all of said cathode ray tubes.
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Abstract
This invention relates to an electronic processing system that receives instruction and data words from a digital computer and automatically processes the instruction and data words to control the appearance of graphical and written matter on a plurality of display devices. The foregoing is accomplished by storing the instruction and data words in a first-in-first-out memory, decoding the formatted instruction word received from the first-in-first-out memory and routing the data that immediately follows the instruction words to the character and function generators so that the desired information may appear on the screens of the display devices. Thus, this invention reduces the number of computer instructions that are necessary to produce a given set of elements on the display devices so that an additional computer would not be required.
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12 Claims
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1. An electronic processing system that saves computer software and computer time by receiving instruction and data words from a digital computer that contain information for automatically controlling the appearance at a particular X, Y position of desired graphical conical matter, alphanumeric characters and symbols of predetermined sizes on a plurality of individually addressable stroke writing cathode ray tubes, said processing system comprising:
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a. an interface that causes the instruction and data words of a digital computer to be electrically compatible with the remainder of said system so that the instruction and data words may be transferred from said computer; b. a first-in-first-out instruction and data memory coupled to said interface so said instruction and data words which contain information on X, Y positioning, alphanumeric characters or symbol addressing, alphanumeric character size and conical radius and centering may be entered into said first-in-first-out memory and exit said memory serially in the order said data and instruction words entered said memory; c. a first register coupled to said memory for temporarily storing at a given time one data word and/or one instruction word when the remainder of said system has completed the processing of the previous instruction and/or data word and is ready to process the next data or instruction word; d. decoding means coupled to said first register for decoding the instructions stored in said register; e. sequencing means coupled to said decoding means and said first register for controlled processing of said data word and/or said instruction word; and f. a plurality of writing means for writing various types of conical graphical matter, alphanumeric characters and symbols on respective ones of said plurality of cathode ray tubes in accordance with the information given by said instruction and data words, said means coupled to said plurality of cathode ray tubes, said decoding means and said sequencing means, whereby said system follows the instructions and processes the data transmitted by said computer permitting said computer to process additional information since said computer will have less information to process because said computer will only send instruction and data words to said processing system when said computer wants to change the information and data currently appearng on one or all of said cathode ray tubes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
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9. The system defined in claim 16 wherein each instruction word contains an address so data words associated therewith may only be sent to one of said addressable cathode ray tubes, thereby permitting each said cathode ray tube to function independently of the others.
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