Scalable Display System Using Segmented Panels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display systems face a tradeoff between display size and image quality, as increasing display size degrades image quality due to constant resolution, and high-resolution systems are prohibitively expensive.
Innovation Solution
A scalable display system comprising multiple smaller displays, where an intermediate computer acts as a gateway to reconfigure video data for optimal display on each section, allowing the system to grow in size while maintaining high resolution and using commonly available components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If display size is increased in traditional systems, then display area increases, but image quality deteriorates due to constant resolution
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into multiple independent display devices (first display device, second display device, etc.), each maintaining its own resolution. These segmented displays work together to form a larger composite display area, allowing the system to increase overall display area while each segment maintains high image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single display device to a multi-dimensional array of display devices. By arranging multiple displays in spatial configurations (horizontal, vertical, or combination arrangements), the system expands the display area in additional spatial dimensions while maintaining the resolution characteristics of individual displays.
2Manufacturing precision
If display resolution is increased beyond current levels, then image quality improves, but system cost becomes prohibitively expensive
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using a single expensive high-resolution display, the system segments the display function across multiple lower-resolution displays. This approach achieves high overall resolution through the combination of multiple displays, significantly reducing system cost while maintaining or improving image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple display devices to create a unified high-resolution display system. By merging the output of several displays and coordinating their content delivery through configuration information, the system achieves resolution levels that would be prohibitively expensive in a single display device.
3Area of stationary object
If multiple display devices are used to increase display area, then display area increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces configuration information as an intermediary mechanism that manages multiple display devices. This configuration data structure defines the arrangement, resolution, and content mapping for each display device, providing a systematic way to manage complexity while enabling flexible multi-display arrangements.
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AI summary
A display system and methods provide for a large, high-resolution display that is scalable. The scalable display is made up of a number of smaller displays. The resolution of the scalable display is the combined resolutions of the smaller displays according to the vertical and horizontal layout of the smaller displays. The system includes an intermediate computer that acts as a primary client to a network computer to request and receive video data at the resolution of the scalable display. The intermediate computer reconfigures video data from a format consistent with the large, scalable display coordinates to a format consistent with the coordinates of the individual smaller displays. The intermediate computer sends reconfigured video data to the smaller displays (through clients) according to which portion of the scalable display each of the smaller displays supports.