Patent ID: 8723868

Claim:
A method for displaying digitized waveform data on a pixilated screen comprising: retrieving waveform data that exists as a plurality of sequential samples in a buffer; associating a first sample with a first point of a screen comprising a plurality of pixels; associating a second sample that follows the first sample with a second point of the pixilated screen; determining a boundary of a rectangular line segment connecting the first point and the second point; for each pixel of the pixilated screen that has any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment, determining a number of subpixels within the pixel that have any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment; for each pixel of the pixilated screen that has any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment, correlating the number of subpixels within the pixel that have any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment with an intensity value that is then associated with the pixel; and displaying waveform data by painting pixels of the screen with the associated intensity values.