Patent ID: 6727902
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
Process for displaying characters and improving efficiency of associated display attributes comprising the steps of:receiving from a memory: a character code value in a first word of N bits, wherein N is a natural integer; a display attribute value, a so-called parallel attribute, defining one of a color or shape attribute type associated with said character code value, in a second word of M bits, M being a natural integer, comprising one selection bit whose value indicates whether the parallel display attribute transmitted is a color attribute type or a shape attribute type; storing the value of the parallel display attribute received; and using, for display of the current character identified by said character code value, the color attribute value or the shape attribute value, received at the same time as the current character, and attribute values stored during reception of previous characters for an attribute type other than the attribute type received with the current character, so that the display attribute value with M-bit may control a color or a shape attributes of the current character, each attribute with a resolution of (Mâˆ’1)-bit wherein: the value of the parallel display attribute received is stored by a first storage means if it is a color attribute and by second storage means if it is a shape attribute; the parallel display attribute is stored by the first storage means only if at least two consecutive parallel display attributes received are of color attribute type; and the penultimate of the at least two consecutive parallel display attributes of color attribute type is stored by the first storage means.