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On-screen display apparatus and on-screen display method
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1995-09-28
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Granted: 1997-04-22
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Expires: 2015-09-28
Abstract
Abstract In an on screen display apparatus and an on-screen display method, the number of scanning lines of an input signal is detected. In accordance with the result of the detection, a vertical dot number of a character to be displayed is determined and font data is read from a memory device after adjusting a dot number of a blank portion of the font data. Hence, even if the number of the scanning lines changes, the number and positions of characters displayed in one screen remain constant.
Inventors
- 👤 Masahiro Naito
- 👤 Yoshiteru Suzuki
- 👤 Kouji Minami
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
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2026-10-30 14:14
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N5/00; H04N5/44; H04N5/445; H04N5/44504; G; G09; G09G; G09G5/00; G09G5/18; G09G5/22; G09G5/222; G09G5/30; H04N17/00; H04N17/04; H04N17/045
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
154 words
An on-screen display apparatus, comprising: a memory means for storing font data including face data and a blank portion for each character in the font data; a counter for counting synchronizing signals corresponding to a number of scanning lines in a character to be displayed; a detection means for detecting a number of scanning lines in one screen from an input signal; and a vertical dot count control means for determining a vertical dot number of the character to be displayed from said memory means in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means, said vertical dot count control means outputting to said counter a signal which controls the number of scanning lines to be counted by said counter, wherein the character having the vertical dot number of said blank portion adjusted in accordance with the number of scanning lines counted by said counter are outputted from said memory means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
154 words
An on-screen display apparatus, comprising: a memory means for storing font data including face data and a blank portion for each character in the font data; a counter for counting synchronizing signals corresponding to a number of scanning lines in a character to be displayed; a detection means for detecting a number of scanning lines in one screen from an input signal; and a vertical dot count control means for determining a vertical dot number of the character to be displayed from said memory means in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means, said vertical dot count control means outputting to said counter a signal which controls the number of scanning lines to be counted by said counter, wherein the character having the vertical dot number of said blank portion adjusted in accordance with the number of scanning lines counted by said counter are outputted from said memory means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
59 words
The on-screen display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a vertical character size control means for instructing said counter to count up by an increment which is equal to a predetermined number of lines in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means so as to control a vertical size of the face data.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
66 words
The on-screen display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a font data selection means for selecting the font data from said memory means in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means, said memory means storing the font data about various kinds of characters wherein each of the font data differs in a number of vertical dots forming the face data.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
115 words
The on-screen display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a font data selection means for selecting the font data from said memory means in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means, said vertical dot count control means instructing said counter to count up by an increment which is equal to a predetermined number of lines in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detections means so as to control a vertical size of the face data, and said memory means storing the font data about various kinds of characters wherein each of the font data differs in a number of vertical dots forming the face data.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
The on-screen display apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a font data selection means for selecting the font data from said memory means in accordance with the number of scanning lines detected by said detection means, said memory means storing the font data about various kinds of characters wherein each of the font data differs in the number of vertical dots.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
111 words
An on-screen display method, comprising the steps of: detecting a number of scanning lines in an input signal; determining a vertical dot number of a character to be displayed in accordance with the detected number of scanning lines; counting synchronizing signal corresponding to a number of scanning lines of the character to be displayed in accordance with the determined vertical dot number; and outputting font data selected from a memory which stores a plurality of the font data including face data and a blank portion of characters after adjusting a vertical dot number of said blank portion in accordance with the number of scanning lines to be counted by a counter.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
111 words
An on-screen display method, comprising the steps of: detecting a number of scanning lines in an input signal; determining a vertical dot number of a character to be displayed in accordance with the detected number of scanning lines; counting synchronizing signal corresponding to a number of scanning lines of the character to be displayed in accordance with the determined vertical dot number; and outputting font data selected from a memory which stores a plurality of the font data including face data and a blank portion of characters after adjusting a vertical dot number of said blank portion in accordance with the number of scanning lines to be counted by a counter.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
51 words
The on-screen display method according to claim 6, further comprising the step of instructing said counter to count up by an increment which is equal to a predetermined number of lines in accordance with the detected number of scanning lines so as to control a vertical size of the face data.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
58 words
The on-screen display method according to claim 6, further comprising the steps of storing the font data about various kinds of characters wherein each of the font data differs in a number of vertical dots forming the face data; outputting the stores font data in accordance with the detected number of the scanning lines in the input signal.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
99 words
The on-screen display method according to claim 6, further comprising the steps of: instructing said counter to count up by an increment which is equal to a predetermined number in accordance with the number of the scanning lines detected by said detection step, so as to control a vertical size of the face data; storing the font data about various kinds of characters wherein each of the font data differs in a number of vertical dots forming the face data; outputting the stored font data in accordance with the detected number of the scanning lines in the input signal.
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