Teletext and display apparatus for general surface

• US 4,361,725 A
• Filed: 02/17/1981
• Issued: 11/30/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jean-Claude Rahuel, Jean-Paul Dagnelie, Robert Veilex
• Original Assignee: Jean-Claude Rahuel, Jean-Paul Dagnelie, Robert Veilex
• Inventors: Rahuel, Jean-Claude, Dagnelie, Jean-Paul, Veilex, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Thomas A.
• Application Number:
  US06/234,775
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 178/18, 178/19, 340/347 AD, 340/146.35 Y, 340/706, 340/707, 340/712, 340/717, 340/718, 340/719, 340/721, 340/723, 340/732, 35/8, 35/9
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041

Abstract

The apparatus comprises a wire sheet graphics tablet and a display apparatus, particularly a cathode ray tube, for receiving the signals transmitted by the graphics tablet. Alternating current flows through wires (5,6) of the tablet. The non-conducting plate (4) of the tablet is transparent and the wire sheets (5,6) are made up of transparent electrical conductors or of small conducting wires, which makes them practically invisible. The tablet is placed on the screen of the display apparatus. Between the screen of the cathode ray tube and the lower side of the graphics tablet, a transparent conducting and non-magnetic coating (8) is provided. In one variation, the current flowing through the layers of wire (5,6) is a high frequency current. The pen for the graphics tablet may be a metallic rod covered by a sheath of insulating material.

Claims

1. A teletext and display apparatus comprising a pair of wire sheet means forming an orthogonal array of conductors, display means for supporting said wire sheet means in front of a display area and being operated responsive to signals from said array of conductors, transparent insulating means separating said pair of wire sheet means, whereby said wire sheet means forms a graphics tablet in front of said display area, means for energizing said wires with an alternating current, and a transparent non-magnetic conductive layer interposed between said graphics tablet and said display area.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said display means is a cathode ray tube and said display area is the face of said cathode ray tube.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said alternating current is a high frequency current.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 or claim 4 wherein said high frequency is in the order of 10 MHz.

6. The apparatus of any of the claims 1-4 and a pen for writing on said graphic tablet, said pen comprising a metallic rod having an insulating sheath.

4. A teletext graphic tablet and display apparatus sharing a common surface whereby any writing on said tablet overlaps a display by said apparatus, said graphic tablet comprising an orthogonal array of conductors which are electrically insulated from each other by a transparent means, means for energizing said wires with a high frequency alternating current, and a non-magnetic conductive layer between said array of conductors and said display apparatus.