Abstract: Fertilizers that contain urea-aldehyde condensates. The fertilizer can be spherical and can be formed using a granulation and/or spheronization technique and optionally can be an extruded fertilizer that is spheronized.

Abstract: A method to control a headlight of a vehicle having a dipping control system is provided. The dipping control system includes a position detector, a map, a luminous intensity measuring device, and a controller. The method recalls the information associated with a work site and, determines a position and a direction of travel of the vehicle. Further, a position and a direction of travel of an approaching vehicle is determined and as a result the headlight of the vehicle is set in a high beam state or a low beam state. The switching of the headlight is based on work site information, whether the vehicle is approaching the other vehicle, and the vehicle and the approaching vehicle are on a trajectory of substantial intersection.

Abstract: A self-contained CD-ROM player which can be installed and used as simply as a VCR. The CD-ROM player includes a CD-ROM drive and supporting hardware and software to activate and execute a program on a CD-ROM disk. It is not necessary to explicitly issue commands to activate and use the disk. The user interface is completely intuitive and simple even for someone who is completely computer illiterate. This player allows everyone, both proficient computer users and those not so proficient, to use the vast library of CD-ROM programs that have been written for personal computers.

Abstract: A display control such as a virtual display adapter allows the advanced functions of a display controller to be utilized in a large area of memory in addition to the normal use in display memory. This large area of memory includes system memory, and efficient access to this large area of memory is permitted for normal system use. The display controller also functions with non-contiguous and non-resident bitmaps. The flexibility of demand-paged virtual memory is utilized for display tasks, as display bitmaps may be written to the large area of memory as well as the display memory.

Abstract: Paper or cellulose pieces forming a fiber raw material are wetted with water prior to comminution so that the comminution into fibers is effected with the moistened raw material. The moisture content of the fibers makes up at least part of the water of hydration required to completely set the binder which is mixed with the fibers. The binder can be plaster (gypsum) or hydraulic cement. The mixture is pressed to the desired shape and heat may be applied.

Abstract: An implementation of a serial access memory register that facilitates the selecting from two alternate frame buffers on a per pixel basis. The frame buffers are each stored in a portion of a row in a single video RAM. Following data transfer to the serial access memory register, data from each of the two frame buffers is available. A double buffer select signal controls the selection of which half of the serial access memory register will put data on the output bus for each serial clock signal. The serial clock increments the address pointers in both halves of the serial access memory port simultaneously.

Abstract: An implementation of a serial access memory register facility which allows the external selection of the portion of the SAM to be scanned out. A control signal is provided which causes the reloading of serial access memory address counter causing the reloading of serial access memory address counter causing the serial scanning to shift from one to another of the serial access memory registers. The result is an ability to select a stopping point when scanning out of the serial access memory. Thus, the present invention implements the ability in a video random access memory to specify both the starting and ending points of the data to be scanned out of the serial access memory. The preferred embodiment replaces the QSF status pin with a control pin to preserve the packaging configuration of standard VRAMs.

Abstract: A frame buffer memory organization which is capable of accessing a pixel aligned M by N array of contiguous pixels on the screen from a frame buffer memory constructed of an M by N array of memory chips by driving a common address bus to all the memory chips, and by driving N RAS wires horizontally across the memory chip array and M CAS wires vertically down the memory chip array. The writing of individual pixels in this array is enabled by energizing the write enable pins to each memory chip directly.The data wires in the memory organization are tied together such that M horizontal pixels in a single row can be read or written simultaneously. Additionally, all M and N pixels may be written simultaneously if the data in all vertical columns is the same.The frame buffer includes a selectively energizable plane mask for disabling desired planes of accessed pixels.

Abstract: A display adapter for displaying graphics data in pixel form on a high resolution display monitor includes a digital signal processor for managing adapter resources and controlling coordinate transformations, a system storage which is divided into a first portion for storing instructions for the digital signal processor and the second portion for storing data representing information to be displayed, an input buffer for permitting asynchronous and overlapped communication between the graphics display adapter and a host computer to speed operation of the system, a pixel processor for drawing vectors and manipulating areas to be displayed on the monitor, a bit mapped frame buffer, a color palette connected to outputs of the frame buffer for providing appropriate color signals to the high resolution monitor and a cursor circuit for controlling display of a cursor on the screen on the monitor.

Abstract: A method for improving the viewing quality of a CRT display image without increasing resolution of the display. With the invention disclosed herein, characters are apparently positioned at sub-pixel locations to improve the viewing quality of a CRT display image. This apparent positioning is accomplished by changing intensity values assigned to pixels on a CRT display. In the preferred embodiment, the change in intensity values is effected by linear interpolation with intensity values of neighboring pixels to yield second intensity values. These second intensity values, then, improve the viewing quality of the CRT display image.

Abstract: The system includes a plurality of memory units each for storing a plurality of independently addressable binary bits. The units operate together in response to each common bit address to supply a bit from each unit to form an array of bits for a discrete section of a larger array. The units are interconnected through common interconnection buses and selectively actuable input and output gate connections to those buses to provide for selective shifting of bits between units to change the bit array.

Abstract: A technique and apparatus for augmenting a random access memory with a fast clear or reset mechanism are described. A dynamic RAM having a fast clear mechanism in accordance with the present invention includes means for coupling a digital signal onto all bit lines; and fast reset control means operative for energizing the coupling means for connecting the digital signal to all of the bit lines such that upon energizing of a selected word line, all the bits connected to the selected word line are reset to the state of the digital signal, whereby reset time of the random access memory is reduced. The present invention is especially beneficial for incorporation in a frame buffer of an all points addressable raster scan display, and in a page buffer of an all points addressable printer wherein there is a requirement for high update performance.