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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1983
Leland J Bass, San Diego, CA (US);
Roy F Quick, Jr, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashwin V Shah, Encinitas, CA (US);
Ralph O Wickwire, San Diego, CA (US);
Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of electronically moving portions of several different images on a CRT screen includes the steps of: storing a first image in one section of an image memory, and storing a second image in a different section of the image memory; storing control bits in a control memory which define high and low priority viewports on the screen and correlate portions of the first and second images to the high and low priority viewports respectively; displaying, in response to the stored control bits, the entire portion of the image in the high priority viewport and only the non-overlapping portion of the image in the low priority viewport by transferring the image portions from the image memory to the screen with no frame buffer therebetween; modifying at least some of the stored control bits to change the priorities of the high and low priority viewports to low and high respectively; and repeating the displaying step, in response to the modified control bits, to display the entire portion of the image in the new high priority viewport and only the non-overlapping portion of the image in the new low priority viewport.