Apparatus for displaying a sprite on a screen (US Patent 4951038)

Patent number: 4951038 Granted: 1990-08-21 Filed: 1988-02-25 Inventors: Kimio Yamamura (Tokyo, JP) Assignees: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. (Hokkaido, JP)

Abstract

Apparatus for displaying a sprite on a screen comprises sprite attribute tables each including coordinates indicating a display position of a sprite, a pattern code defining the sprite in regard to pattern data, and control data defining a display mode of the sprite. A sprite generator is addressed in accordance with the pattern code to supply the pattern data of a