Sixteen-segment display
A sixteen-segment display (SISD) is a type of display based on sixteen segments that can be turned on or off to produce a graphic pattern. It is an extension of the more common seven-segment display, adding four diagonal and two vertical segments and splitting the three horizontal segments in half. Other variants include the fourteen-segment display which does not split the top or bottom horizontal segments, and the twenty-two-segment display[1] that allows lower-case characters with descenders.
Often a character generator is used to translate 7-bit ASCII character codes to the 16 bits that indicate which of the 16 segments to turn on or off.[2]
Applications
Sixteen-segment displays were originally designed to display
Before the advent of inexpensive
Sixteen-segment displays may be based on one of several technologies, the three most common optoelectronics types being LED, LCD and VFD. The LED variant is typically manufactured in single or dual character packages, to be combined as needed into text line displays of a suitable length for the application in question; they can also be stacked to build multiline displays.
As with seven and fourteen-segment displays, a
Examples
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A sixteen-segment display on a Beatmania IIDX arcade machine
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An eighteen-segmentCyrillic letters Д, Ц.[6]
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A sixteen-segment display on an AIM-65
See also
- Seven-segment display
- Eight-segment display
- Nine-segment display
- Fourteen-segment display
- Dot-matrix display
- Nixie tube display
- Vacuum fluorescent display
References
- ^ "DL-3422 4-digit 22-segment alphanumeric Intelligent Display™ preliminary data sheet". Internet Archive. Litronix 1982 Optoelectronics Catalog. p. 82. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ Application Note 3212: Driving 16-Segment Displays Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, Maxim Integrated, 2004.
- ^ Standard sixteen segmented display for Thai numerals Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Volume 35 Issue 4 1989
- ^ Alphanumeric Persian characters using standard 16-segment displays Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Volume 37 No. 1, 1991
- ^ Means for controlling illuminated announcement and display signals Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine, US Patent 744,923 filed 1902-08-15
- ^ "Лампа ИВ-4 (Индикатор) Datasheet" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
External links
- View and create sixteen-segment display characters - Editable SVG-Font, Open Font License
- Sixteen Segment Display with the HTML5 Canvas
- Web App to design segment-display
- Spinning segment display
- TwentyfourSixteen — CC0 sixteen segment TTF font based on the HP/Siemens/Litronix DL-2416 character set