Image display device

• US 6,323,886 B1
• Filed: 01/12/1999
• Issued: 11/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Yoshinori
• Primary Examiner(s): Saras, Steven
• Assistant Examiner(s): Spencer, William C.
• Application Number:
  US09/228,955
• Time in Patent Office: 1,050 Days
• Field of Search: 345/145, 345/10, 345/156, 345/856, 345/678, 345/157
• US Class Current: 715/856
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/06 Adjustment of display parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/04 Changes in size, position or resolution of an image
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• 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 mouse 4-1 is connected to a display device 1 to produce, as position information, the information indicative of the amount and the direction of displacement of an image. The display device comprises an information analyzing unit for analyzing the output information from the mouse for the amount and the direction of displacement, and a setting unit for producing and setting information indicative of a new video display position in accordance with reference information and the amount and the direction of displacement analyzed by the information analyzing unit. The reference information is information stored in the display device as a current video display position.

Claims

1. An image display system comprising:

a plurality of input devices for producing information containing position information;

a display device for displaying an image; and

an output device for supplying a video signal to said display device, wherein

said input devices are each connected to said display device,

said display device being connected with said output device via a connecting cord to transmit output information produced by said input devices,

each of said input devices having a function to select and produce either one of an identification ID for said output device and an identification ID for said display device in order to designate a destination of said output information, and a function to add selected identification ID to said output information,

said display device comprising;

information analyzing means for determining, in response to said output information from said input devices, the destination of said output information by means of said identification ID supplied by said input devices; and

a plurality of output means for use in supplying, to said output device, said output information from which said identification ID is removed when said output device is determined as the destination of said output information,

said information analyzing means having a function to analyze said output information for the amount and the direction of displacement when said display device is determined as the destination of said output information,

said display device further having setting means for producing and setting information indicative of a new video display position in accordance with reference information and the amount and the direction of displacement analyzed by said information analyzing means, said reference information being information stored in said display device as a current video display position.

2. An image display system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said setting means comprising:

data conversion means for converting the amount and the direction of displacement analyzed by said information analyzing means into data for use in adjusting said display device; and

data setting means for setting data converted by said data conversion means.

3. An image display system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said output device is a computer, and said plurality of input devices are each a mouse or a keyboard.

4. An image display system comprising:

a plurality of input devices for producing information containing position information;

a display device for displaying an image; and

an output device for supplying a video signal to said display device, wherein

said input devices are each connected to said display device,

said display device being connected with said output device via a connecting cord to transmit output information produced by said input devices,

each of said input devices having a function to select and produce either one of an identification ID for said output device and an identification ID for said display device in order to designate a destination of said output information, and a function to add selected identification ID to said output information,

said display device comprising;

an information analyzing device for determining, in response to said output information from said input devices, the destination of said output information by a device of said identification ID supplied by said input devices; and

a plurality of output devices for use in supplying, to said output device, said output information from which said identification ID is removed when said output device is determined as the destination of said output information,

said information analyzing device having a function to analyze said output information for the amount and the direction of displacement when said display device is determined as the destination of said output information,

said display device further having a setting device for producing and setting information indicative of a new video display position in accordance with reference information and the amount and the direction of displacement analyzed by said information analyzing device, said reference information being information stored in said display device as a current video display position.

5. An image display system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said setting device comprising:

a data conversion device for converting the amount and the direction of displacement analyzed by said information analyzing device into data for use in adjusting said display device; and

a data setting device for setting data converted by said data conversion device.

6. An image display system as claimed in claim 4, wherein said output device is a computer, and said plurality of input devices are each a mouse or a keyboard.