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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
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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