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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:
Mar. 21, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Albert J Charpentier, Hatfield, PA (US);
Assignee:
Commodore Business Machines, Inc., West Chester, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ; A63F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
273 / ; 273D / ; 340721 ; 340725 ;
Abstract
A monitoring circuit incorporated into a video game display device is operated responsively to first and second non-overlapping clock pulses and monitors raster line status in comparison to a stored raster address and provides a high speed raster scan interrupt when that address is achieved, triggering a SPRITE or other feature(s) display.