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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1994
Sridhar Kotha, Fremont, CA (US);
Alexander Eglit, San Carlos, CA (US);
Robin Han, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. The present invention stores binary information representing a horizontal row of character text. A prescribed bit in the binary information may be set to determine whether to duplicate pixels associated with the binary information in either a horizontal or vertical direction. A circuit is provided to ensure that foreground and background characteristics of the graphics character text being expanded are consistent with the sent prescribed bit in the binary information.