Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a) a matrix electrode structure comprising a set of plural scanning electrodes and a set of plural data electrodes intersecting with the scanning electrodes; b) a scanning electrode driver for serially applying a scanning selection signal to the scanning electrodes and a data electrode driver for applying data signals in parallel; c) an address generator for serially generating an address signal for addressing a scanning electrode to which the scanning selection signal is to be applied and image signals for directing data signals to be sent to the data electrodes to the respective data electrodes; and d) a circuit for generating a signal for directing a changeover between a transfer of the address signal to the scanning electrode driver and a transfer of the image signals to the data electrode driver. The display apparatus is particularly adapted for partial rewriting.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for an optical element array includes a counter counting clock pulses and being periodically reset at a horizontal scanning period. The counter outputs first and second counter signals out of phase with each other. A latch holds a pixel-corresponding segment of an input image signal. One of clock signals out of phase with each other is selected in response to the pixel-corresponding input-signal segment held by the latch. A first comparator compares the first counter signal and the pixel-corresponding input-signal segment held by the latch, and outputs a first identity signal when the first counter signal and the pixel-corresponding input-signal segment are equal to each other. A second comparator compares the second counter signal and the pixel-corresponding input-signal segment held by the latch, and outputs a second identity signal when the second counter signal and the pixel-corresponding input-signal segment are equal to each other.

Abstract: A microdot trichromatic fluorescent screen comprising two facing substrates. The first substrate supports cathode conductors provided with microdots, grids and an insulating layer separating the same. The second substrate supports three series of parallel conductive bands. The conductive bands of each series are electrically interconnected and covered with a material luminescing in one of the three primary colors red, green and blue. Each series of conductive bands corresponds to a red, green or blue anode. The production of this screen requires no positioning between the two substrates.

Abstract: A hand-held electronic game machine includes a computer accommodated in a case and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel provided at an upper portion of a front surface of the case. When an external memory is inserted to a receiving port formed on a rear surface of the case at a portion opposite to the LCD panel, a first character data being set in advance in the computer is compared with a second character data stored in a predetermined area of the external memory. Prior to such comparison, the computer displays the characters represented by the second character data on the LCD panel. If the first and second character data are coincident with each other, the computer can access to the external memory.

Abstract: Special effects using polar image coordinates produce a new class of television special effects, such as spherical mapping and kaleidoscope effects. Rectangular coordinates for an input image are converted into polar coordinates, and the polar coordinates are mathematically manipulated according to the desired special effect. The modified polar coordinates may be applied directly to the rectangular coordinates to produce modified rectangular coordinates that represent the desired special effect, or they may be converted back into rectangular coordinates as the modified rectangular coordinates.