Picture displaying method for switching among picture display tasks

• US 5,369,743 A
• Filed: 12/15/1993
• Issued: 11/29/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Egami, Noritaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Powell, Mark R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Breene, John E.
• Application Number:
  US08/166,892
• Time in Patent Office: 349 Days
• Field of Search: 345/119-120, 345/118, 345/113, 395/155-161, 395/145
• US Class Current: 715/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

In switching a picture corresponding to a picture display task, the picture display task before switching permitted to run concurirently with a picture display task after switching, while a drawing command from the picture dissplay task before switching is promptly invalidated. window of the picture display task before switching is eliminated when the picture is switched, and therefore the drawing command from the picture display task of which the window is eliminated is made invalid.

Claims

1. A picture display method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display device, comprising the steps of:

forming a first window on the display device;

drawing a first picture in the first window using a plurality of first drawing command;

eliminating the first window and the first picture from the display device prior to completion of the first drawing commands used to draw the first picture;

forming a second window on the display device prior to the completion of the first drawing commands used to draw the first picture;

drawing a second picture in the second window using a plurality of second drawing commands prior to the completion of the first drawing commands used to draw the first picture; and

rendering non-operational any first drawing commands that occur after the forming of the second window or the drawing of the second picture;

wherein the second drawing commands begin prior to the completion of the first drawing commands.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein the display device is a cathode ray tube.