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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:
Dec. 10, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott A Bottorf, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
James R Robb, Marion, IA (US);
Assignee:
Rockwell International Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395137 ;
Abstract
The speed at which a display screen is updated is increased by updating only those areas of the screen that have changed since the last update. This is accomplished by dividing the screen display elements into a grid of contiguous areas, and defining those areas which changing video information as unprotected areas and other areas as protected areas. As new images are generated, the memory containing information displayed in the protected areas is protected from updating while that in the unprotected area is not protected.