Picture information processing system

• US 4,580,779 A
• Filed: 12/28/1982
• Issued: 04/08/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Video Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Video Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Kanamaru, Hitoshi, Kusumoto, Tsunetaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Application Number:
  US06/453,827
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• Field of Search: 273/DIG. 28, 273/1 E, 273/85 G
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04897 Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability

Abstract

A picture information processing system comprising an input for generating a play control signal in accordance with external operations (2, 3); memory for storing picture information and for producing a picture information signal (5, 9, 10); display for displaying a picture on a screen in accordance with the picture information (5, 8, 1); detector for producing a detection signal when the picture information signal has an instantaneous magnitude equal to a predetermined value (5, 11, 12); and a controller for performing a predetermined result operation, such as modification of the reproduced picture, reproduction of a score on the screen, and production of a sound, in accordance with the play control signal and the detection signal (5, 6); thereby to perform an advanced and complicated operation without increasing the steps of the program governing the system.

Claims

1. A picture information processing system comprising:

input means for generating a play control signal in accordance with external operations;

memory means for storing picture information and for producing a picture information signal;

display means for displaying a picture in accordance with said picture information signal;

detecting means for producing a detection signal when said picture information signal has an instantaneous magnitude equal to or more than a predetermined value; and

control means for performing a predetermined result operation in accordance with said play control signal and said detection signal, said control means adapted to produce an additional picture signal in accordance with said play control signal and said detection signal, said additional picture signal being constituted by three binary signals corresponding to primary colors, and said control means including a converting means for converting said picture information signal into three luminance components corresponding to said primary colors to be displayed by the display means, and a selecting means connected to said display means for normally selecting said three luminance components from said converting means and for selecting said three binary signals when at least one of said three binary signals is produced by said control means.

2. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said memory means includes a recording medium carrying thereon a pattern representative of said picture information;

and pick-up means for picking up said picture information from said pattern.

3. A picture information processing system according to claim 2, in which said recording medium is a memory disc, and said pick-up means is a disc player for playing said memory disc.

4. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said display means includes a CRT, and a video generator adapted to control said CRT in accordance with said picture information signal.

5. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said control means is adapted to produce a sound in accordance with said play control signal and said detection signal.

6. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said picture information signal includes at least three color components, and said detecting means includes a first logic circuit for producing a variable logic signal on the bais of said color components, a reference signal generator for producing a reference logic signal of said predetermined value, and a comparing means for comparing said variable logic signal with said reference logic signal and for producing said detection signal when said variable logic signal coincides with said reference logic signal.

7. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said three color components are red, green and blue components.

8. A picture information processing system according to claim 1, in which said instantaneous discrete magnitude is a predetermined voltage level.

9. A picture information process system according to claim 1, in which said selecting means comprises a logical OR gate having three input terminals provided with said three binary signals and producing an output signal when at least one of said input terminals is supplied with said binary signal, and a change-over switch means having two sets of input terminals provided with said three binary signals and said three luminance components, respectively, and controlled by the output signal of said logical OR gate so as to transmit said three binary signals upon presence of said output signal.