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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2000
Ping-Fa Tang, Hsinchu, TW;
Chi-Tien Chen, Taoyuan, TW;
Myson Technology Inc., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for rotating OSD fonts are disclosed. The OSD rotation device including a central processing unit, font addresses generator, memory, a font ROM, a decoder, a shift register, a output controller and output circuits, a synchronization signal generator, and a display device. In a manner, the OSD fonts corresponding to the OSD font addresses are produced. Next, the OSD fonts is read and delivered to the decoder. Further, the decoder performs a decoding process for the OSD fonts to form a plurality of rotated fonts. The OSD message, including the rotated fonts, is displayed on a display device so that the video display is synchronized with the OSD message.