Abstract: Transmitting via color signals or vertical signals to control a computer's display monitor using software adjustments of the display parameters. A user can vary the display parameters including, for example, the contrast, brightness, horizontal and vertical size and position, inter alia, and transmit other commands and other data using codes transmitted with the color codes, or alternatively, with the vertical synchronization pulses.

Abstract: An EEPROM stores multiple sets of video display parameters for a multi-frequency video display. A microcontroller receives input from a user, changes the stored display parameters and outputs changes in the parameters to the video display. The microcontroller also controls video display apparatus that displays on-screen menus and value indicator graphs for facilitating user input. The video display apparatus incorporates a video clock synchronized to the horizontal synchronization signal of the multi-frequency display, to keep the displayed menus synchronized regardless of the current frequency. In addition, the video display apparatus elongates displayed characters at higher frequencies to control the absolute size of displayed characters across frequencies. The present invention provides for changes to video display parameters, and for resetting the display parameters to factory standards, without manipulating electromechanical devices such as potentiometers.

Abstract: The invention processes a National Television System Committee (NTSC) standard video signal to allow a digital, transistor to transistor logic (TTL), 8 color, separate red, green, and blue (RGB) video, color monitor to be used to display television (TV) images. The infinite colors necessary for TV are produced on an 8 color TTL monitor through pulse width modulation. Thus, the width of the TTL video pulse to each color input of the monitor is proportional to the brightness required that is contained in the NTSC signal.