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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1998
Didier Doyen, La Bouexière, FR;
Eric Benoît, Eybens, FR;
Jacques Deschamps, Grenoble, FR;
Gérard Rilly, Unterkirnach, DE;
Thomson multimedia, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
The device comprising a video processing circuit ( ) for processing the video data received, a correspondence memory ( ) for transcoding these data, a video memory ( ) for storing the transcoded data, the video memory being linked to column drivers ( ) in order to control the column addressing of the plasma panel on the basis of column control words, a control circuit ( ) for the line drivers ( ), is characterized in that the control circuit for the line drivers simultaneously selects at least two successive lines during the transmission by the column drivers ( ) of at least one of the bits of the column control words relating to one of these lines.