Display apparatus and display system

• US 10,078,485 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2016
• Issued: 09/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Akatsuka, Yasuo, Takagi, Masahiro, Tsurumi, Hiroshi, Suzuki, Kojiro, Horisaki, Koji, Nakamura, Toshihiro, Nakada, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Earles, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US15/062,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20160266859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2356/00 Detection of the display position w.r.t. other display screens
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/042 for monitor identification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a display block is a display apparatus including a plurality of surfaces. The display block includes a display device, a plurality of transmitting/receiving sections that perform communication within a predetermined distance, and a control section. The display device is provided on at least one surface of the plurality of surfaces. The plurality of transmitting/receiving sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces. The control section performs control of the plurality of transmitting/receiving sections and the display device.

Claims

1. A display apparatus including a plurality of surfaces, the display apparatus comprising:

a display device provided on at least one surface among the plurality of surfaces;

a plurality of communication sections arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided among the plurality of surfaces and configured to perform communication within a predetermined distance, each of the plurality of communication sections having different identification information; and

a control section configured to perform control of the plurality of communication sections and the display device,

wherein the control section is configured to (i) store information on a relation between respective arrangement positions of the plurality of communication sections and pixel coordinates of an image displayed on the display device, (ii) in a case where other display apparatuses are coupled to the display apparatus, in order to cause a display direction of images on the other display apparatuses to coincide with a display direction of the image on the display apparatus, add a cumulative rotation angle of the other display apparatuses to a first rotation angle, to thereby calculate a second rotation angle, the first rotation angle being calculated based on a relation of second identification information of communication sections of the other display apparatuses with respect to first identification information of one of the plurality of communication sections of the display apparatus, when a search of an arrangement relation between the display apparatus and the other display apparatuses is performed, the communication sections of the other display apparatuses being configured to communicate with the one of the plurality of communication sections which communicates with the other display apparatuses, and (iii) cause the pixel coordinates of the image to be rotated based on the calculated second rotation angle and cause the image to be displayed on the display device.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control section is further configured to (iv) determine, when receiving first information, presence or absence of the other display apparatuses arranged adjacent to the respective surfaces on which the communication sections are provided, add, based on a result of a determination of the presence or absence of the other display apparatuses, identification information of the other display apparatuses arranged adjacent to the respective surfaces to the first information and generate second information, and transmit the second information from any one of the plurality of communication sections, and (v) display, when receiving image information addressed to the display apparatus in any one of the plurality of communication sections, the image information on the display device.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, when the search of the arrangement relation between the display apparatus and the other display apparatuses is completed, the control section includes return information indicating completion of the search in the second information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control section includes, based on the result of the determination of the presence or absence of the other display apparatuses, in the second information, edge information indicating that the other display apparatuses are absent concerning surfaces on which the other display apparatuses arranged adjacent to the surface are absent.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when the first information includes the transmitted second information, the control section includes duplication information indicating that the display apparatus has been already searched in the second information.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication is near field communication.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first information is a transmission request command for requesting the control section to transmit the second information.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the second information is information obtained by including, in the first information, or adding, to the first information, information concerning the presence or absence of the other display apparatuses on the respective surfaces and the identification information of the other display apparatuses.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control section determines, based on block identification information of the display apparatus, whether the image information is addressed to the display apparatus.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the control section transmits the second information including identification information of the display apparatus.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising an identification-information generating section configured to generate identification information of the display apparatus based on the received first information.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of communication sections are arranged to correspond to at least two or more side surfaces with respect to the surface on which the display device is provided.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus includes a memory region where a data table of a shape code indicating a shape of the display device for an arrangement search, shape information corresponding to the shape code, and pixel information can be generated.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus includes a memory region where a data table of shape information and a number of the display apparatus for an arrangement search and search states and adjacent numbers corresponding to the respective side surfaces can be generated.

15. A display system comprising a plurality of the display apparatuses according to claim 2.

16. The display system according to claim 15, wherein one of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a wireless communication section configured to perform communication by a wireless LAN for receiving the first information.

17. The display system according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a display surface having a shape different from a shape of the other display apparatuses.

18. The display system according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses includes display devices on two or more surfaces.

19. The display system according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a housing including the communication section and the control section and not including the display device.

20. The display system according to claim 15, wherein at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a display device including a touch panel function.