Method of and apparatus of converting a set of attributes of display data into code

• US 5,539,432 A
• Filed: 12/19/1994
• Issued: 07/23/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Hironobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, CHANH DUY
• Application Number:
  US08/358,756
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 340/703, 340/709, 340/716, 340/719, 340/793, 340/814, 340/767, 340/701, 358/27, 345/150, 345/151, 345/147, 345/149, 345/112, 345/186, 345/199
• US Class Current: 345/600
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1475 with conversion of CRT control signals to flat panel control signals, e.g. adapting the palette memory
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/028 Circuits for converting colour display signals into monochrome display signals

Abstract

An apparatus for displaying display data in desired representations, includes a storage section for storing the display data, attributes being assigned to data portions of the display data, a display section for reading out the display data from the storage section, and displaying the display data with the colors determined in accordance with display codes assigned to the attributes in a execution mode, and a changing section for changing a first display code of the display codes to a second display code. The changing section may be varied so that it automatically searches for at least one other attribute to which the first code is assigned changing the first code assigned to the other attribute to the second code. The first display code is assigned to one of the attributes which is selected by an input attribute selection instruction, and the second display code is selected by an input code selection instruction in a code change mode.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

storage means for storing display data along with associated color codes indicative of colors in which the display data is to be displayed;

display means for displaying mono-color image data;

associating means for associating entries representing the color codes of the display data with gradation codes;

selecting means for selecting a gradation code associated with a first entry, the selected gradation code having a first value to be changed;

changing means for changing the first value of the selected gradation code into a second value different from said first value;

means for automatically finding all gradation codes having said first value other than said selected gradation code;

means for changing the value of each gradation code found by said means for finding to said second value;

the display means displaying the mono-color image data in accordance with the changed gradation codes.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means includes:

first generating means for generating selection instruction;

second generating means for generating an input code change instruction;

third generating means for generating a start instruction; and

fourth generating means for generating an end instruction.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the changing means includes:

storage means for storing an application program and a code change program; and

processor means for executing the application program in an execution mode, for resetting the apparatus from the execution mode to a code change mode in response to the start instruction to execute the code change program, and for resetting the apparatus from the code change mode to the execution mode in response to the end instruction, thereby stopping execution of the code change program and starting execution of the application program.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said processor means executes the code change program by interrupting the application program in response to the start instruction, and resumes the application program in response to the end instruction.

5. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the code change program is included in an operating system.

6. A method for changing gradation codes corresponding to color codes of display data into a desired gradation code, the method comprising the steps of:

storing display data along with associated color codes indicative of colors in which the display data is to be displayed;

displaying mono-color image data;

associating entries representing the color codes of the display data with gradation codes;

selecting a gradation code associated with a first entry, said selected gradation code having a first value to be changed;

changing the first value of the selected gradation code into a second value different from said first value;

automatically finding all gradation codes having said first value, other than said selected gradation code;

changing the value of each gradation code found by said step of finding to said second value; and

displaying the mono-color image data in accordance with the changed gradation codes.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein changing of the gradation code is executed by a code change program for controlling change operation in response to a change start instruction.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the code change program is performed by interrupting an application program being currently executed in response to the change start instruction and the application program is resumed in response to a change end instruction.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein the code change program is included in an operating system.

10. A method according to claim 7, wherein the color codes and the gradation codes corresponding to the color codes are displayed during changing of gradation codes.