Method and device for preventing the jumping phenomenon of an OSD display region on a monitor screen

• US 6,195,087 B1
• Filed: 06/10/1998
• Issued: 02/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Acer Peripherals Inc (Qisda Corporation)
• Inventors: Wu, Tsung-Hsun
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Henry N.
• Application Number:
  US09/095,053
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 345/211-213, 345/11, 345/13, 345/14, 345/18, 345/29, 345/58, 345/76, 345/78, 345/99, 345/214
• US Class Current: 345/213
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/165 Details of a display terminal using a CRT, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto details suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/08 Arrangements within a display terminal for setting, manually or automatically, display parameters of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/18 Timing circuits for raster scan displays specially adapted for television H04N ; synchronisation between the display unit and other display units, videodisc player G09G5/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/08 Separation of synchronising signals from picture signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

A method and device for preventing the jumping phenomenon of the OSD display region on a monitor screen. The anti-jumping device comprises it included a comparison circuit, a signal generator and a multiplexer. The comparison circuit is used for calculating a difference time between the front edges of pulses of the synchronizing signals Vs and Hs, and the front edge of a corresponding pulse, comparing the difference time with a fixed time and producing a selection signal according the comparison result. The selection signal represent the timing relation between Hs and Vs. The signal generator is used for generating two clear reference signals that can be applied in various timing situations. The multiplexer receives the two clear reference signal and employs the selection signal to select one of the two clear reference signal as a clear signal that is applied to a counter used for counting the scanning location in the OSD processing circuit.

Claims

1. An apparatus for preventing the jumping phenomenon of an OSD display region on a monitor screen, the apparatus producing a clear signal to clear a counter for counting the number of scanning lines in the monitor screen according to a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal, comprising:

a comparison circuit for producing a first clear reference signal according to the vertical synchronizing signal, and a selection signal according to a time difference between the front edge of a pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal and the front edge of a corresponding pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal, the selection signal being set to a first logic state when the time difference is less than a fixed time period and to a second logic state when the time difference is greater than the fixed time period;

a pulse generator for producing a second clear reference signal according to the vertical synchronizing signal, the second clear reference signal being delayed for a delay time period relative to the first clear reference signal; and

a multiplexer for selecting one of the first clear reference signal received from the comparison circuit and the second clear reference signal received from the pulse generator as the clear signal according to the selection signal received from the comparison circuit, the first clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the selection signal is in the first logic state and the second clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the selection signal is in the second logic state.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the comparison circuit generates said first clear reference signal according to the front edge of the corresponding pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a timer for generating a timebase signal to define the fixed time period.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selection signal is set to the second logic state when the front edge of the pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal is located in the period of the corresponding pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal.

5. An apparatus for preventing the jumping phenomenon of an OSD display region on a monitor screen, the apparatus producing a clear signal to clear a counter for counting the number of scanning lines in the monitor screen according to a horizontal synchronizing signal a vertical synchronizing signal, comprising:

a comparison circuit producing a selection signal according to a time difference between the front edge of a pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal and the front edge of a corresponding pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal, the selection signal being set to a first logic state when the time difference is less than a fixed time period and to a second logic state when the time difference is greater than the fixed time period;

a first pulse generator for producing a first clear reference signal according to the vertical synchronizing signal;

a second pulse generator for producing a second clear reference signal according to the vertical synchronizing signal, the second clear reference signal being delayed for a delay time period relative to the first clear reference signal; and

a multiplexer for selecting one of the first clear reference signal received from the first pulse generator and the second clear reference signal received from the second pulse generator as the clear signal according to the selection signal received from the comparison circuit, the first clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the selection signal is in the first logic state and the second clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the selection signal is in the second logic state.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first pulse generator generates the first clear reference signal according to the front edge of the corresponding pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a timer for generating a timebase signal to define the fixed time period.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the selection signal in the comparison circuit is set to the second logic state when the front edge of the pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal is located in the period of the corresponding pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal.

9. A method for preventing the jumping phenomenon of an OSD display region on a monitor screen, the method producing a clear signal to clear a counter for counting the number of scanning lines in the monitor screen according to a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal, comprising:

calculating a time difference between the front edge of a pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal and the front edge of a corresponding pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal;

producing a first clear reference signal and a second clear reference signal, wherein the first clear reference signal corresponds to the front edge of the pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal and the second clear reference signal is delayed for a delay time period relative to the first clear reference signal; and

choosing one of the first clear reference signal and the second clear reference signal according to the time difference as the clear signal, the first clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the time difference is greater than a fixed time period the second clear reference signal serving as the clear signal when the time difference is less than the fixed time period.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

producing a timebase signal by using a timer to define the fixed time period relative to the pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein choosing one of the first clear reference signal and the second clear reference signal further comprises:

generating a selection signal, which is set to a first logic state when the time difference is greater than the fixed time period and set to a second logic state when the time difference is less than the fixed time period; and

inputting the first clear reference signal and the second clear reference signal to a multiplexer and inputting the selection signal to a selection control terminal of the multiplexer, whereby the multiplexer outputs the first clear reference signal when the selection signal is in the first logic state and outputs the second clear reference signal when the selection signal is in the second logic state.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

setting the selection signal as the second logic state when the front edge of the pulse of the vertical synchronizing signal is located in the period of the corresponding pulse of the horizontal synchronizing signal.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein choosing one of the first clear reference signal and the second clear reference signal further comprises:

generating a selection signal, which is set to a first logic state when the time difference is great than the fixed time period and set to a second logic state when the time difference is less than the fixed time period; and

inputting the first clear reference signal and the second clear reference signal to a multiplexer and inputting the selection signal to the selection control terminal of the multiplexer, whereby the multiplexer outputs the first clear reference signal when the selection signal is in the first logic state and the outputs the second clear reference signal when the selection signal is in the second logic state.

14. An apparatus for determining an OSD display region by using a counter for counting scanning lines, comprising:

a comparison circuit for calculating a time difference between the front edge of a pulse of a vertical synchronizing signal and the front edge of a corresponding pulse of a horizontal synchronizing signal to generate a selection signal, the selection signal being set to a first logic state when the time difference is greater than a fixed time period T2 and set to a second logic state when the time difference is less than the fixed time period T2;

a signal generator for generating a first clear reference signal and a second clear reference signal, the first clear reference signal instantaneously corresponding to the vertical synchronizing signal and the second clear reference signal being delayed for a fixed time period T3 relative to the vertical synchronizing signal, the fixed time period T3 being greater than the fixed time period T2; and

a multiplexer for selecting the first clear reference signal as the clear signal of the counter when the selection signal is in the first logic state, and selecting the second clear reference signal as the clear signal of the counter when the selection signal is in the second logic state.