Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1997-02-10
1999-02-02
Katbab, A.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345342, G06F 300
Patent
active
058671544
ABSTRACT:
A process for use in a data processing system to define a display area within a display device in the data processing system. The display device includes an unviewable portion and a viewable portion in which a plurality of borders define the viewable portion of the display. The process includes displaying a line or some other graphical object parallel to the border within the plurality of borders in the display device. The line is moved relative to the border in response to a user input wherein the line remains parallel to the border. The line is fixed in response to a second user input. Additional lines are displayed, moved, and fixed for the remaining borders forming the viewable portion of the display, resulting in the definition of a display area. This display area is stored and employed to display data on the display device such that data is not displayed in the unviewable portion of the display device.
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Berstis Viktors
Modh Manish Mahesh
Dillon Andrew J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Katbab A.
Mims Jr. David A.
Venglarik Daniel E.
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