VISUAL DISPLAY OF DATA FOR INPUT DATA SET

摘要

Disclosed is a method and a means for creating a visual display of data from an input data set (22) in which the data are not fixed into display-acceptable format until the data are stored in a local memory (41) of the visual display. At least one of a plurality of sources (16, 18, 20, 34) of resource information is initially selected as required by the input data set. Control signals corresponding to the sources of resource information are thereafter embedded into the input data set to form an output data set (30). Subsequently, the selected sources of resource information and the output data set are applied to the local memory. They are concurrently taken from this local memory to produce a visual display. Fixation of the data into display acceptable format is thereby postponed until just prior to actual display to thereby provide a substantial increase in system flexibility.