HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER OPERATED DIGITAL DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20100117933A1
• Filed: 01/20/2010
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ActiveLight Incorporated (Electrograph Investment Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ActiveLight Incorporated (Electrograph Investment Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gothard, David
• Application Number:
  US12/690,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20100117933A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/55
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/28 using luminous gas-discharge panels, e.g. plasma panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A high definition and high resolution digital display system, which is computer operated and preferably in the form of a plasma operated display system. More preferably the display system may adopt the form of a television system. The computer controls the generation of the display on the display screen with X-Y coordinate signals such that the computer provides for generation of the display on the plasma screen. The display system may have those features which allow for a high resolution display system with high definition, if desired.

Claims

1. A display system capable of generating a static or continuous display from electronic signals generated and transmitted from a remote source, said display system comprising:

a) an outer housing having an interior compartment and being operable at any of a plurality of fixed or movable locations;

b) a thin high resolution display panel on said housing and being observable to a group of viewers at wide angles;

c) a self-contained digital computer dedicated only to (1) the operation of the display system and any peripheral equipment used therewith and to (2) operation only as a computer and (3) a means to access other computers and a (4) means to access the World Wide Web to both receive information and to transmit information including displays over the World Wide Web;

d) said computer being located in operative relationship to said housing and receiving electrical signals from a remote source representative of the displays to be generated; and

e) said computer also controlling the energization of pixels on said display panel in an X-Y coordinate axis pattern in such manner to generate a display on said display panel and where the computer controls the generation of displays on said display panel, said computer further using the World Wide Web to receive information from and transmit information including displays to certain of such other computers and also enabling generation of selected portion of stored information and displays generated on said display panel to be sent over the World Wide Web, such that the stored information which is to be sent over the World Wide Web can be selected for transmission so that all or less than all of that stored information can be transmitted and also that such selected stored information may be transmitted to all of or less than all of such other computers, whereby there is a selectivity in the generation and transmission of information including displays over the World Wide Web and a selectivity in which locations will receive the selected portions of the stored information and receive other information including displays from the World Wide Web.

2. The display system of claim 1 further characterized in that said computer of said display system comprises a storage member enabling storage of signals transmitted for later retrieval and presentation and for storing instructions for computer related activities.

3. The display system of claim 2 further characterized in that said thin and flat high resolution display panel is a plasma operated display panel and is protected by a transparent cover sheet.

4. The display system of claim 1 further characterized in that said display system further comprises internal ventilating means in said housing to control heat generation by providing for heat dissipation and to reduce condensation which might form therein.

5. The display system of claim 1 further characterized in that said computer operates with a memory with size necessary to contain all of the data used to sequentially display a plurality of stored image displays.

6. The display system of claim 3 further characterized in that said system further comprises:

a) a protective transparent cover plate extending over said display panel;

b) and spacer means holding said cover plate in spaced apart relationship from said display panel and provides an air gap therebetween.

7. A computer operated digital display system for generating a static or continuous image display on a display panel of that display system, said display system comprising:

a) an outer housing;

b) a display panel on said housing and being observable to a viewer;

c) a dedicated computer means located in proximity to said housing and dedicated primarily (1) to the operation of said display system and any peripheral components operable therewith and (2) to operation only as a computer and (3) a means to access other computers and (4) a means to access the World Wide Web, said computer means operating on the basis of a series of sequential programmed instructions at a predetermined time or on a real time basis, said computer means controlling the display presented on said display panel by controlling energization of individual pixels on the display screen through a coordinate X-Y axis pattern, said computer means further being capable of altering the manner in which a display is generated on the screen; and

d) said computer means further using the World Wide Web to receive information from and transmit information including displays to certain of such other computers and also enabling generation of selected portion of stored information and displays capable of being generated on said display panel to be sent over the World Wide Web, such that the stored information which is to be sent over the World Wide Web can be selected for transmission so that all or less than all of that stored information can be transmitted and also that such selected stored information may be transmitted to all of or less than all of such other computers, whereby there is a selectivity in the generation and transmission of information including displays over the World Wide Web and a selectivity in which locations will receive the selected portions of the stored information and receive other information including displays from the World Wide Web.

8. The display system of claim 7 further characterized in that said computer means is further provided with means providing enhancement of any display on the display panel and thereby enhancing the image displayed on said display panel.

9. The display system of claim 7 further characterized in that said computer means is also being capable of providing a high definition display.

10. The display system of claim 7 further characterized in that said display system comprises a storage member enabling storage of signals transmitted for later retrieval and presentation and for storing instructions for computer related activities.

11. A display system based on broadcast video and audio signals from a transmitting station for generating displays, said display system comprising:

a) an outer housing having an opening to receive a display panel;

b) an electronically operable computer controlled relatively flat display panel member viewable through said opening with wide angle viewing for displaying broadcast television images and other video images;

c) a self-contained and dedicated computer in said display system outer housing controlling operation of the flat display panel and for generating a display from electronic signals representative of the plurality of displays and which are broadcast from a remote source and to operation as a computer and to receive from and send information to the World Wide Web;

d) means associated with said computer for further using the World Wide Web to receive information from and transmit information including displays to certain of such other computers and also enabling generation of selected portions of stored information and displays generated on said display panel to be sent over the World Wide Web, such that the stored information which is to be sent over the World Wide Web can be selected for transmission so that all or less than all of that stored information can be transmitted and also that such selected stored information may be transmitted to all of or less than all of such other computers, whereby there is a selectivity in the generation and transmission of information including displays over the World Wide Web and a selectivity in which locations will receive the selected portions of the stored information and receive other information including displays from the World Wide Web; and

e) memory means in said display system outer housing and storing information delivered from a remote source and where such information is stored in digital signal format as digital signals and allowing the digital signals to be reconverted to visible images which are displayed at the display panel, and where different displays are storable in said memory means and displayed at time selected periods independently of external electronic signals from a remote source.

12. The display system of claim 11 further characterized in that said display system further comprises receiving means provided at said housing of said display system for receiving transmitted electronic signals representative of the displays from the remote source and transmit said signals to at least one of the computer or memory means.

13. The display system of claim 11 further characterized in that said display system is readily transportable and completely self-contained and positionable at a generally fixed location for operation at the fixed location

14. The display system of claim 11 further characterized in that said display panel is a computer controlled plasma operated display panel.

15. The display system of claim 14 further characterized in that said system comprises a protective cover member which is transparent and disposed over said display panel and being spaced apart therefrom.

16. The display system of claim 11 further characterized in that said system comprises internal ventilating means in said housing to control heat generation by providing for heat dissipation and to reduce condensation which might form therein.

17. The display system of claim 11 further characterized in that said computer is dedicated primarily to the operation of said display system and any peripheral components used therewith.