PRELIMINARY DATA SHEET CCZ 3005K
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characters depends on whether all 15 rows have been
put up on the screen yet. When Text Mode has just been
selected and the specified text memory is empty, the
cursor starts at Row 1, Position 1 and moves down to
Position 1 on the next row each time a carriage return is
received until Row 15 is reached. As soon as the first 15
rows of text are on the screen, Text Mode switches to a
scrolling type of presentation. With each subsequent
carriage return received, the text on Row 1 is erased,
text on rows 2–15 are rolled up one row, and the cursor
is moved to position 1 on row 15, which will then be
blank. Should new displayable characters be received
during the time that rows 2–15 are rolling upwards, the
new characters are seen appearing from top to bottom,
as each text row is 13 dots high and rolls up at a rate of
one dot per frame (thus, a smooth roll-up is completed
in 0.433 seconds). If a carriage return is received while
text is rolling up, smooth scroll is suspended, causing
rows 2–15 to jump up to their final position so the new
carriage return can be processed immediately.
Characters are always displayed immediately when re-
ceived by the decoder. Once the cursor reaches the
32nd character position on any row, all subsequent char-
acters received prior to a carriage return, Preamble Ad-
dress Code, or Backspace will be displayed in that posi-
tion, replacing any previous character occupying that
address. In Text Mode, the cursor cannot be moved ran-
domly around the screen. The cursor automatically
moves one column to the right after reception of each
character or Mid-Row code. Using any Preamble Ad-
dress Code will move the cursor to the indicated indent
position on the current row, ignoring row information
contained in the address. Using a Backspace will move
the cursor one column to the left, erasing the character
or Mid-Row Code occupying that location. (A Backspace
received when the cursor is in Position 1 will be ignored.)
Using the “Text Restart” command will erase all charac-
ters on the screen and move the cursor to Row 1, Posi-
tion 1.
If the reception of data for a row is interrupted by data for
the alternate data channel or for Caption Mode, the dis-
play of text will resume from the same cursor position if
a “Resume Text Display” command is received and no
Preamble Address Code is given which would move the
cursor.
A character remains displayed until
– scrolled off the top of the screen
– another character is addressed to the same screen
location
– it is erased by a Backspace
– all text is erased simultaneously by receipt of a “Text
Restart” command
– the user switches data channels (C1/C2)
– the user switches fields (F1/F2) or
– by loss of valid data (see Section 6.2.7.).
In addition, changing the Mode Select switch to TV will
turn off the display of characters and box without erasing
data from the decoder memory.
6.2.2.2. Caption Mode
In Caption Mode, text can appear only on rows 1 to 4 and
12 to 15 of the screen. Rows 5 to 1 1 are never used and
will therefore always be transparent. Each caption row
contains a maximum of 32 characters, and each charac-
ter will always be preceded and followed by either anoth-
er character or a box no less than one column wide.
The caption area will be transparent anywhere that:
1. no standard space character or other character has
been addressed and no accompanying box is
needed
2. a “transparent space” special character has been
addressed which does not immediately precede or
follow a displayed character.
There are three styles of presenting text in Caption
Mode: roll-up, pop-on, and paint-on.
Character display varies significantly with the style used,
but certain rules of character erasure are common to all
styles. A character, once displayed, can be erased by
addressing another character to the same screen loca-
tion or by backspacing over the character from a subse-
quent location on the same row. The entire caption dis-
play will be erased simultaneously by receipt of an
“Erase Displayed Memory” command, or by the user
switching data channels (C1/C2) or fields (F1/F2), or by
loss of valid data (see section 6.2.7.), or by commands
specific to the type of presentation style used. Receipt
of an “End of Caption” command will cause a displayed
caption to become non-displayed (and vice versa) with-
out being erased from memory. In addition, changing the
Mode Select switch to TV will turn off the display of char-
acters and box without erasing data from the decoder
memory.
1. Roll-Up
Roll-up style captioning is initiated by using one of three
Miscellaneous Control Codes to select the maximum
number of rows displayed. A Preamble Control Code will
determine the start row or bottom row. The start row
must be greater than the number of rows to be scrolled
or those rows not in the valid display area will not be dis-
played.
Regardless of the number of active rows selected, the
cursor always remains on the start row selected and the
text of the four most recently received rows is stored in
memory. For convenience, those rows are identified as
A, B, C, and D. The first row received when the memory
is empty is Row A; the second row is Row B, the fifth is
again Row A; etc. If the selected start row =X, each time
a Carriage Return is received, those rows which occupy