Apparatus and method for generating on-screen-display messages using one-bit pixels
CA 2268124 C · Owner: Knox, Michael Dwayne · Inventors: Knox, Michael Dwayne; Dinwiddie, Aaron Hal
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An apparatus and concomitant method for generating an OSD message by constructing an OSD bitstream having a plurality of "one-bit" pixels. The OSD bitstream contains an OSD header and OSD data. An OSD unit retrieves pixel control information from the OSD header which is programmed by a processor of a decoding/displaying system. The OSD header contains information that is used to program a color palette of the OSD unit and to provide instructions as to the treatment of the OSD data. If the "Compressed Pixel Mode" is enabled in the OSD header, then the OSD unit will treat each bit of the OSD data as a "one-bit" pixel.
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- Filed October 16, 1996 and granted January 8, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 16, 2016.
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