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System and method for transferring data using a frame-scanning display device

  • US 5,742,260 A
  • Filed: 05/22/1995
  • Issued: 04/21/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of serially transmitting a sequence of data bits, the method comprising the following steps:

  • displaying sequential display frames on a frame-scanning graphics display device, the sequential display frames being associated with individual groups of data bits;

    associating at least one data framing bit with each individual group of data bits;

    selectively illuminating sequentially-scanned data transmission lines within the display frames to represent the individual groups of data bits associated with the display frames and the associated data framing bits, wherein bits having a first binary value are represented by the data transmission lines which are illuminated, and wherein bits having a second binary value are represented by the data transmission lines which are not illuminated;

    changing the binary values of the framing bits associated with the individual groups of data bits from one sequential display frame to the next;

    wherein the illuminating step comprises writing the sequentially-scanned data transmission lines of the sequential display frames to a frame buffer, the data transmission line representing one of the data framing bits associated with an individual group of data bits being written only after all of the other data transmission lines of a particular display frame have been written.

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