Image Display System Dynamic Layout Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image display systems for presentations and conferences lack convenience in changing the layout and operation of a common screen area, where multiple participants' terminal screens are displayed, making it difficult for users to efficiently manage and customize the display content.
Innovation Solution
An image display system that includes multiple image supply devices and an image display device, allowing users to operate and customize the layout of a common screen area through a common screen area operating image, enabling users to change the display configuration, add or remove divisional layout frames, and select and arrange supply images within these frames.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the common screen area is divided into multiple image areas to display images from multiple terminals, then the ability to display multiple participants' screens simultaneously is improved, but the ease of changing layout and operating the display is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a layout management application as an intermediary layer between the display hardware and the user. This application provides a graphical user interface that allows users to easily define, adjust, and manage display areas without directly interacting with complex system configurations. The intermediary abstracts the complexity of multi-display coordination into simple user-friendly operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic layout management where display areas can be created, modified, deleted, and rearranged in real-time during presentations. The system allows flexible adjustment of which terminals are visible, their positions on the display screen, and their sizes, enabling the layout to adapt dynamically to changing presentation needs without requiring system restarts or complex reconfiguration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display system allows flexible role changes among participants, then the adaptability of the presentation is improved, but the complexity of managing and operating the display increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display management functionality into independent, manageable components. Each participant terminal is treated as an independent image source that can be individually added, removed, or repositioned. The layout management application divides the display screen into separate controllable regions, allowing each participant's display to be managed independently while contributing to the overall presentation layout.
Solution Approach 2:
The layout management application serves multiple functions through a single unified interface: it manages display area division, controls terminal image selection, handles layout configuration, and coordinates multi-terminal synchronization. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate control mechanisms for each function, thereby reducing overall system complexity despite the flexible role-change capabilities.
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AI summary
An image display system includes: a plurality of image supply devices each having an image display section, and an image transmission section adapted to generate a supply image and to externally transmit the supply image; and an image display device capable of dividing a common screen area into one or more screen areas, and of displaying the supply image supplied from each of the image supply devices in the one or more screen areas, wherein each of the image supply devices displays a common screen area operating image to operate a display state of the common screen area in the image display section, and supplies a display image of the image display section to the image display device as the supply image, and the image display device changes the display state of the common screen area in accordance with an operation in each of the image supply devices.