Control/display apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION AND FOR CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION DISPLAYED, AND APPARATUS COMPRISING: A DISPLAY MEANS INCLUDING A SCREEN; A DIGITAL MEMORY INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF STORAGE LOCATIONS, EACH LOCATION BEING CAPABLE OF STORING ONE OF A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION CODES, SAID INFORMATION CODES INCLUDING POSITIONING CONTROL CODES, COORDINATE CODES, AND SYMBOL CODES; MEANS FOR APPLYING ACESSING SAID STORAGE LOCATIONS; MEANS FOR APPLYING SAID CODES ACCESS FROM SAID STORAGE LOCATIONS TO SAID DISPLAY MEANS; SAID DISPLAY MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO SAID CODES APPLIED THERETO FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION REPRESENTED THEREBY ON A SCREEN; A CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF ACTUATABLE CONTROLS; MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE ACTUATION OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONTROLS FOR GENERATING COORDINATE CODES IDENTIFYING A SELECTED POSITION ON SAID SCREEN AND STORING SAID GENERATED COORDINATE CODES IN SAID MEMORY; MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE ACTUATION OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONTROLS FOR GENERATING A MARKER SYMBOL CODE AND STORING IT IN SAID MEMORY IN ASSOCIATION WITH SAID GENERATED COORDINATE CODES; SAID DISPLAY MEANS BEING RESPONSIVE TO SAID MARKER SYMBOL CODE APPLIED THERETO FOR DISPLAYING A MARKER SYMBOL ON SAID SCREEN AT THE POSITION IDENTIFIED BY THE COORDINATE CODES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID MARKER SYMBOL CODE; MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY IDENTIFYING ONE OF SAID STORAGE LOCATION; AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE ACTUATION OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID CONTROLS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID MARKER CODE TO SID IDENTIFIED SRTORAGE LOCATION.