SCROLLING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE AND MICROCOMPUTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize scroll displays to desired directions of vertical, lateral and oblique directions or the like in a character unit without necessitating a complex software. SOLUTION: Data for displaying characters to which scrolling permission is set are converted from parallel data into serial data. The bit arrangement of reference font data read out from a font ROM 16 is converted in accordance with the count value of a vertical synchronizing signal for display counted by a vertical synchronizing signal counter 17a and the scrolling to the lateral direction in the character base to be displayed is performed.