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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric G Breeze, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340802 ; 340762 ; 340713 ; 34082582 ;
Abstract
This system is for use with multicharacter displays. Each character being composed of a plurality of segments which are of a unidirectional type, e.g. an LED. Selected segments of each character are sequentially illuminated to display alphanumeric or other symbols. In this system the number of interconnections between the display and a drive circuit is greatly reduced. For example an 8-character display where each character has 7 segments would require only 8 leads.