HORIZONTAL-DIRECTION IMAGE MAGNIFICATION SYSTEM FOR FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:JPH07210111A

    公开(公告)日:1995-08-11

    申请号:JP25516494

    申请日:1994-10-20

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PURPOSE: To provide a system for enlarging a picture in the horizontal direction with a variable magnification on a high-resolution display provided with a flat panel containing a low-resolution display mode. CONSTITUTION: In a first method, an intermediate over-sampled data sequence is first obtained by over-sampling a first picture element data sequence to be enlarged at a frequency of the magnification of the frequency of the first picture element data sequence. Then a copied second data sequence which is longer than the first data sequence is obtained by linearly decimating the over-sampled data sequence with a magnification smaller than '1' and the second data sequence is displayed. In a second method, an interpolating over-sample data sequence is formed by filtrating the intermediate over-sampled data sequence and the sequence is decimated in place of the intermediate over-sample data sequence in order to further improve the quality of a screen image. Therefore, the size, complexity, and cost of the video subsystem of a computer can be reduced, because no graphic controller nor any special mechanism for display logic mechanism is required and complicated picture processing is eliminated.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SCREEN SEPARATOR LINE

    公开(公告)号:JPH05108299A

    公开(公告)日:1993-04-30

    申请号:JP6566292

    申请日:1992-03-24

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PURPOSE: To display a line between screen areas without changing the existing display circuit by displaying a first screen being a host data area and a second screen being an operator information area respectively at upper and lower parts in a divided screen operational mode, and generating a horizontal separator line between those areas. CONSTITUTION: A display screen controller 12 is operated in a divided screen operation mode, and a first screen area being a host data area and a second screen area being an operator information area(OIA) (neither is shown in a figure) are displayed respectively at upper and lower parts. The controller 12 reads data from a screen memory (not shown in a figure) and displays a corresponding alphanumeric character line so that each alphanumeric character can be displayed as plural picture elements arrayed along a first numeric horizontal scanning line. Next, the controller 12 displays a horizontal visual separator line (not-shown in a figure) between the final line in the first screen area and the first line in the second screen area. Thus, this line is displayed without changing the control circuit 12.

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