CA2051655A1 - Animation display unit and external memory used therefor - Google Patents

Animation display unit and external memory used therefor

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CA2051655A1
CA2051655A1 CA2051655A CA2051655A CA2051655A1 CA 2051655 A1 CA2051655 A1 CA 2051655A1 CA 2051655 A CA2051655 A CA 2051655A CA 2051655 A CA2051655 A CA 2051655A CA 2051655 A1 CA2051655 A1 CA 2051655A1
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data
memory
external memory
main body
size
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CA2051655A
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Toyofumi Takahashi
Michitaka Miyoshi
Masahiro Otake
Satoshi Nishiumi
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Nintendo Co Ltd
Ricoh Co Ltd
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Priority claimed from JP2025737A external-priority patent/JP2989627B2/en
Priority claimed from JP2205748A external-priority patent/JP3037978B2/en
Priority claimed from JP2205747A external-priority patent/JP2989642B2/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/36—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of a graphic pattern, e.g. using an all-points-addressable [APA] memory
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G5/00—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators
    • G09G5/42—Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the display of patterns using a display memory without fixed position correspondence between the display memory contents and the display position on the screen
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F13/00—Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T13/00—Animation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T13/00—Animation
    • G06T13/80—2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F13/00—Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions
    • A63F13/25—Output arrangements for video game devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T2200/00—Indexing scheme for image data processing or generation, in general
    • G06T2200/28—Indexing scheme for image data processing or generation, in general involving image processing hardware

Abstract

An animation dispaly unit includes a main body and an external memory fitted removably to the main body and a video data memory for storing graphic data of characters constituting an object is disposed in the main body. Object data of an object to be displayed on a raster scan monitor, that is, color pallet data, object name data, vertical centering data, horizontal centering data, object size selection data and size designation data are stored beforehand in the program data memory of the external memory. The object data of the object to be displayed on the next vertical retrace line are read out from the program data memory and are stored in an object attribute memory. An in-range decision circuit makes in-range decision on the basis of the vertical centering data, the size selection data and the size designation data and makes in-range decision on the basis of the vertical centering data, the size selection data and the size designation data.
CA002051655A 1990-02-05 1991-02-04 Animation display unit and external memory used therefor Expired - Lifetime CA2051655C (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (6)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP2-25737 1990-02-05
JP2025737A JP2989627B2 (en) 1990-02-05 1990-02-05 Video display device
JP2-205748 1990-07-31
JP2205748A JP3037978B2 (en) 1990-07-31 1990-07-31 Video display device
JP2-205747 1990-07-31
JP2205747A JP2989642B2 (en) 1990-07-31 1990-07-31 Video display device

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CA2051655A1 true CA2051655A1 (en) 1991-08-06
CA2051655C CA2051655C (en) 1997-04-22

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EP (1) EP0466936B1 (en)
KR (1) KR960004655B1 (en)
AT (1) ATE151903T1 (en)
BR (1) BR9104307A (en)
CA (1) CA2051655C (en)
DE (1) DE69125661T2 (en)
ES (1) ES2100226T3 (en)
HK (1) HK1005197A1 (en)
RU (1) RU2106012C1 (en)
WO (1) WO1991011799A1 (en)

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BR9104307A (en) 1992-08-04
WO1991011799A1 (en) 1991-08-08
EP0466936A4 (en) 1993-09-08
US5608424A (en) 1997-03-04
CA2051655C (en) 1997-04-22
ATE151903T1 (en) 1997-05-15
DE69125661D1 (en) 1997-05-22
EP0466936B1 (en) 1997-04-16
HK1005197A1 (en) 1998-12-24
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