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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1998
Robert Marshall Nally, McKinney, TX (US);
Pete Edward Nelsen, Plano, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for generating and displaying data on a monitor 28 such as a CRT of LCD display. The display is comprised of a plurality of images, each located at positions on the face of the monitor defined by multi-digit coordinate values in a multi-coordinate system. Units of data are stored in linear display memory 26, each such unit of data corresponding to and defining the image to be displayed at one of said positions. The apparatus includes a circuit 60 which places selected bits of said multi-digit coordinate values in a preselected order to define the address or offset in said linear display memory at which is located the corresponding unit of data.