Display apparatus and display system

• US 10,642,562 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• 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:
  US16/107,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20180357035A1
• Time in Patent Office: 623 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

A display apparatus includes a plurality of surfaces, and a display device provided on at least one surface among the plurality of surfaces. A 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 among the plurality of surfaces and configured to perform communication within a predetermined distance, each of the plurality of communication sections including different identification information. A control section is configured to perform control of the plurality of communication sections and the display device. When another display apparatus is connected to the display apparatus, the control section periodically performs time synchronization to synchronize an image displayed on the display device with an image displayed on a display device provided in the other display apparatus.

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 side surfaces with respect to the at least one surface on which the display device is provided and configured to perform communication within a predetermined distance, the plurality of communication sections including different identification information from each other; and

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

wherein;

when another display apparatus is connected to the display apparatus, the control section periodically performs time synchronization to synchronize an image displayed on the display device with an image displayed on a display device provided in the other display apparatus,

when receiving a first message including a master time, a delay cumulative total, and a first own present time from the other display apparatus, the control section transmits a second message including the master time, the delay cumulative total, and a second own present time to the other display apparatus,

the first own present time is a time at which the first message is transmitted from the other display apparatus to the display apparatus, and

the second own present time is a time at which the first message is received from the other display apparatus and the second message is transmitted from the display apparatus to the other display apparatus.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when receiving a third message including the master time, the delay cumulative total, and a third own present time from the other display apparatus, after transmitting the second message to the other display apparatus, the control section calculates a delay time and an adjacent delay time, based on the first own present time, the second own present time, the third own present time, and a fourth own present time.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the third own present time is a time at which the second message is received from the display apparatus and the third message is transmitted from the other display apparatus to the display apparatus, and

the fourth own present time is a present time in the display apparatus.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control section sets a time obtained by adding the delay time to the master time as an estimated master time at a present time in the display apparatus, calculates a correction function from the estimated master time and a history in the past, and calculates a logical time.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the control section synchronizes the image displayed on the display device with the image displayed on the display device provided in the other display apparatus, based on the logical time.