U.S. Philips Corporation

Henricus F De Leeuw

Bernard Van Steenbrugge

Martinus V Stroomer

Karel E Kuijk

Ties S Te Velde

Jean H Lorteije

Mihalis Mastroyiannis

A local communication bus system including a serial control bus connected to a plurality of user terminal devices and at least one switchbox device, each terminal device being plug connected to at least one of the switchbox devices so as to provide respective signal interconnection paths there-between, each device having at least one plug and containing a readable interconnection table specifying to which plugs of other devices it is connected. A signal path from a terminal device operating as a signal source to a terminal operating as a signal destination is established by control commands generated on the connection bus by a control unit in the source device and which cause the intervening switchboxes to establish the requisite internal connections between their plugs. The system thereby does not require any central control. The interconnection table of a terminal device only needs to identify its own plugs and those of other devices to which it is plug are connected.

Local communication bus system comprising a set of interconnected

A multi-station communication bus system allows for the use of several master stations by way of an arbitration organization. A message contains a master address which is subjected to an arbitration operation, a slave address with space for a slave address acknowledge bit, a control signal with space for a control acknowledge bit, and one or more data bytes. Per data byte an indication of the 'last' byte is also transmitted and space is reserved for a data acknowledge bit. When a data acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the data byte in question is repeated until at the most the maximum frame length is reached. The remainder of a message is then placed in a next frame. If an address or control acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the relevant frame is terminated. In case of a plurality of bytes in a message, the first frame thereof has a lock control signal that is activated upon communication of at least one data byte. Moreover, the last byte of the message is put in a separate frame that has an unlock control signal which is activated upon communication of the last byte.

Communication bus system with lock/unlock capability

A multi-station communication bus system allows for the use of several master stations by way of an arbitration organization. A message contains a master address which is subjected to an arbitration operation, a slave address with space for a slave address acknowledge bit, a control signal with space for a control acknowledge bit, and one or more data bytes. For each data byte an indication of the 'last' byte is also transmitted and space is reserved for a data acknowledge bit. When a data acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the data byte in question is repeated until at the most the maximum frame length is reached. The remainder of a message is then placed in a next frame. If an address or control acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the relevant frame is terminated. In case of a plurality of bytes in a message, the first frame thereof has a lock control signal that is activated upon communication of at least one data byte. Moreover, the last byte of the message is put in a separate frame that has an unlock control signal which is activated upon communication of the last byte.

Communication bus system and station for use in such a communication bus

A single-channel communication bus system allows for the use of several master stations by way of an arbitration organization. A message contains a master address which is subjected to an arbitration operation, a slave address with space for a slave address acknowledge bit, a control signal with space for a control acknowledge bit, and one or more data bytes. Per data byte an indication of the 'last' byte is also transmitted and space is reserved for a data acknowledge bit. When a data acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the data byte in question is repeated until at the most the maximum frame length is reached. The remainder of a message is then placed in a next frame. If an address or control acknowledge bit is not correctly received, the relevant frame is terminated.

Single-channel communication bus system and station for use in such a

Such a device comprises display elements (RC) arranged, for example, in matrix form in rows and columns with, each display element comprising a first (E1) and a second electrode (E2) and an intermediate, movable, third electrode (E3). The first electrode (E1) is used in common by the elements (RC) with, the second electrode (E2) forming part of a strip-shaped row electrode and the third electrodes (E3) having an electrical through-connection in the column direction. Depending on the polarities of information pulses applied to the electrodes by a control voltage source, the third electrode is positioned adjacent the first or second electrode to achieve a bright or a dark picture element on display. With picture element-selective drive by a row selection with, a change being made for the selected picture element from the bright to the dark state, a non-energized state occurs at the other bright and dark picture elements in the column. To counteract the possibility of picture disturbance, a pulse (CT2) is simultaneously applied, in addition to the information pulses (CT1), to each electrode with a polarity which is the same for the first and the second electrodes and is the opposite for the third electrode. This results in a reset with a memory state.

Electroscopic picture display device having selective display of local

The display arrangement is provided with display elements which comprise a first and a second electrode, between which each a displaceable third electrode is present, and with a control voltage source, for selectively situating the third electrode near the first or second electrode, depending upon a voltage difference with the first or second electrode. In order to obtain a minimum or no cross-talk from selected display elements to adjacent selected or non-selected display elements, the display elements being arranged in a matrix in rows and columns, the voltage source supplies at least during the period (DT) of the information supply to the display elements (R1C1, R1C2, . . . R3C3) three values of control voltage (SC1, SC2, SC3) to at least one of the three electrodes.

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Henricus F De Leeuw