Samiran Mahmud  , Thomas Chowdhury  , Manzurul Hasan  , 
    Designing 12-Segment Display for English Alphabet,
    Asian Journal of Information Technology,
    Volume 4,Issue 7,
    2005,
    Pages 692-693,
    ISSN 1682-3915,
    ajit.2005.692.693,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2005.692.693)
    Abstract: One of the simplest and most prevalent methods for displaying numerical digits uses a 7-segment formation to produce the decimal characters 0 through 9. A 12-segment display system to display English Alphabet characters has been proposed in this study. The 12-segment is arranged in such a way that these segments can characterize the entire English Alphabet and no curved segment is used in this display which made it more efficient and cost effective than previously 14-segment English Alphabet display system and others. There are at most 26 Alphabet patterns to be displayed in English language and 5 bits are used to represent each of them. For each pattern particular segments are activated.
    Keywords: 12-segment display;english alphabet;karnaugh map;boolean expression;sum of production