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Class Number: 345 Class Title: SELECTIVE VISUAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 PLURAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS 2 .Remotely located 3 .Diverse systems (e.g., CRT/LCD interface) 4 SINGLE DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING STACKED SUPERIMPOSED DISPLAY DEVICES (E.G., TANDEM) 5 .Diverse display devices 6 .Three-dimensional arrays 7 IMAGE SUPERPOSITION BY OPTICAL MEANS (E.G., HEADS-UP DISPLAY) 8 .Operator body-mounted heads-up display (e.g., helmet mounted display) 9 .Plural image superposition 10 DATA RESPONSIVE CRT DISPLAY CONTROL 11 .CRT provides display control 12 .Data responsive deflection and intensity control 13 .Data responsive deflection control 14 ..X and Y axis deflection control 15 ..Curvilinear deflection control (e.g., lissajous) 16 ..Stroke or vector 17 ...Strokes for forming characters 18 ...Up/down counter 19 ..Impedance Array 20 .Data responsive intensity control 21 ..Magnetic element array 22 .Color display 23 .Graphic and alphanumeric display 24 .Graphic display 25 .Alphanumeric display 26 ..Character generator 27 .Combined with storage means 28 ..Addressing 29 .Delay line 30 PLURAL PHYSICAL DISPLAY ELEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM (E.G., NON-CRT) 31 .Physically movable array 32 .Optical means interposed in viewing path (e.g., filters, lens, etc.) 33 .Segmented display elements 34 ..Seven segment display 35 ..Bar graph 36 ...Electroluminescent display elements 37 ...Gas discharge display segments (e.g., plasma) 38 ...Liquid crystal display segments 39 ...Light-emitting diode segments (LEDS) 40 ...Plural (e.g., stacked, adjacent) 41 ..Fluid light-emitting display elements (e.g., gas, plasma) 42 ...Controlling circuitry 43 ..Mask or electrode shape 44 ..Solid light-emitting display elements 45 ...Electroluminescent 46 ...Light-emitting diodes 47 ..Fluorescent elements 48 ..Light-controlling display elements 49 ...Electrochromic elementss 50 ...Liquid crystal elements 51 ....Display element selection circuitry 52 ....Power supply generating circuitry 53 ....Specific waveform (e.g., square waveforms, sinusoidal) 54 .....Field period polarity reversal 55 .Display elements arranged in matrix (e.g., rows and columns) 56 ..Image shifting means (i.e., traveling message) 57 ...Having endless belt or tape reader 58 ..Crosstalk elimination 59 ..Matrix for conveying alphanumeric data 60 ..Fluid light emitter (e.g., gas, liquid, or plasma) 61 ...Shifting means 62 ....Specified plasma coupling path 63 ...Intensity control 64 ...Liquid light emitter 65 ...Phosphor excited by fluid response 66 ...Particular discharge path 67 ...More than two electrodes per element 68 ...Means for combining selective and sustain signals 69 ....Resistor-diode arrangement 70 .....Including transformer 71 ...Electrode insulated from fluid medium 72 ...Color 73 ..Incandescent 74 ..Cathodoluminescent type 75 ...Vacuum fluorescent 76 ..Electroluminescent 77 ...Brightness or intensity control 78 ...Having compensating pulse 79 ...Field period polarity reversal 80 ...Driving means integral to substrate 81 ...Optical addressing (e.g., photodetection) 82 ..Solid body light emitter (e.g., LED) 83 ...Color 84 ..Light-controlling display elements 85 ...Electroscopic (e.g., movable electrodes or electrostatic elements) 86 ...Magneto-optic 87 ...Liquid crystal display elements (LCD) 88 ....Color 89 ....Gray scale capability (e.g., halftone) 90 ....Control means at each display element 91 .....Diode or varistor 92 .....Thin film tansistor (TFT) 93 .....Redundancy (e.g., plural control elements or electrodes) 94 ....Waveform generation 95 .....Three or more voltages 96 .....Field period polarity reversal 97 .....Ferroelectric liquid crystal elements 98 ....Specific display element control means (e.g., latches, memories, logic) 99 .....Particular timing circuit 100 .....Particular row or column control (e.g., shift register) 101 ....Data signal compensation in response to temperature 102 ....Backlight control 103 ....Grouped electrodes (e.g., matrix partitioned into sections) 104 ....Input/output liquid crystal display panel 105 ...Electrochromic elementss 106 ...Thermochromic elements 107 ...Particle suspensions (e.g., electrophoretic) 108 ..Plural mechanically movable display elements 109 ...Having shutters 110 ...With motor or rotor driver means 111 ...With a permanent magnet placed on movable display elements 112 DISPLAY ATTRIBUTE CONTROLLER 113 .Particular overlay (e.g., superimposing feature) 114 ..Foreground and background 115 .Simultaneous diverse images 116 ..Character and graphical display 117 .Specified image of abnormal condition 118 .Having image confined to designated region (e.g., image clipping) 119 ..Multiwindow environment 120 ...Overlapping windows 121 .Image movement or position control (e.g., panning) 122 ..Animation 123 ..Scrolling 124 ...Alphanumeric 125 ...Graphical 126 ..Rotation 127 .Image size control 128 ..Alphanumeric 129 ...Reduction 130 ...Enlargement 131 ..Graphical 132 .Defined resolution (e.g., EGA, VGA) 133 .Graphic display 134 ..Waveform display (e.g., oscilloscope type) 135 ..Vector display 136 ..With image smoothing control (e.g., anti-aliasing) 137 ...Convolving technique 138 ..Averaging technique 139 ..Perspective 140 ..Bar graph 141 .Character display 142 ..Calligraphic 143 ..Font change 144 ..Character border 145 .Cursor manipulation 146 ..Menu selection 147 .Intensity control (e.g., gray scale) 148 ..Temporal processing (e.g., pulse width variation over time) 149 ..Spatial processing (e.g., patterns or subpixel configurations) 150 .Selectable color attributes 151 ..Including optical means 152 ..Designated subpixel arrangements 153 ..Color bit data modification or conversion 154 ...Format change (e.g., NTSC to RGB, RGB to composite, or XYZ to RGB) 155 ...Change in number of bits for a designated color (e.g., 4 bits to 8 bits, 8 bits to 4 bits) 156 DISPLAY PERIPHERAL INTERFACE INPUT DEVICES 157 .Cursor mark position control devices 158 ..Including orientation sensors (e.g., infrared, ultrasonic, remotely controlled)) 159 ..Having variable cursor speed 160 ..Cursor key 161 ..With joystick 162 ..Positional storage means 163 ..With mouse 164 ...Rotatable ball detector 165 ....With photosensor encoder 166 ...Optical detector 167 ..With trackball 168 .Including keyboard 169 ..Portable (i.e., handheld, calculator, remote controller) 170 ..Light source associated with each key 171 ..Having foreign language capability (e.g., Japanese, Chinese) 172 ..Having programmable function keys 173 .Touch panels 174 ..Including impedance detection 175 ..Including optical detection 176 ..With transparent substrate with light entrapment capability (i.e., waveguides) 177 ..Including surface acoustic detection 178 ..With alignment or calibration capability (i.e., parallax problem) 179 .Stylus 180 .Light pen for CRT display 181 ..CRT having tracking capability 182 .Light pen for fluid matrix display panels 183 .Light pen for controlling plural light-emitting display elements (e.g., LED, lamps) 184 .Mechanical control (e.g., rotatable knob, slider) 185 DISPLAY STORAGE DEVICE 186 .Color memory 187 ..Multiple planes 188 ...Addressing with priority 189 .Bit map or graphic memory 190 ..Addressing 191 ..Mask data operation 192 .Character memory 193 ..Addressing 194 ..Character generator 195 ...Multiple fonts 196 .Row buffer (e.g., line memory) 197 .Shift register 198 ..With routing logic 199 .Color look-up-table (e.g., palette) 200 .Addressing circuitry 201 .Plural storage devices 202 .Data compression or compaction 203 .Significant data assignment in storage device 204 DISPLAY DRIVING CONTROL CIRCUITRY 205 .Physically integral with display elements 206 ..Having common base or substrate 207 .Light detection means (e.g., with photodetector) 208 .Waveform generator coupled to display elements 209 ..Field period polarity reversal 210 ..Having three or more voltage levels 211 .Display power source 212 ..Regulating means 213 ..Synchronizing meanss 214 .Controlling the condition of display elements 215 ..Including priming means * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 901 Electronic book with display 902 Menu display 903 Modular display 904 Display with fail/safe or testing feature 905 Display device with housing structure