Cooperative multi-display
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1. A cooperative multi-display system comprising:
- a plurality of flexible displays;
a memory that stores an image table including original images, each of a subset of the original images being mapped to a state value that represents at least a state of the physical environment around the system;
a controller associated with the memory that selects an original image from the memory mapped to a determined state value from the image table and that processes the original image into sub-images;
a driver that drives the plurality of flexible displays and forwards the processed sub-images from the controller to the plurality of flexible displays, respectively; and
a first sensor that detects deformations in one or more of the plurality of flexible displays and sends deformation information that describes the deformations to the controller, wherein the controller compensates the sub-images for the deformations detected in the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays using the deformation information.
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Abstract
Cooperative multi-display systems and techniques are provided. In one embodiment, a cooperative multi-display system includes multiple flexible displays, a controller that processes an original image into sub-images, each of the sub-images being at a location in the original image that corresponds to a location of each of the multiple flexible displays, and a driver that drives the multiple flexible displays and forwards the processed sub-images from the controller to the multiple flexible displays, respectively.
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20 Claims
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1. A cooperative multi-display system comprising:
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a plurality of flexible displays; a memory that stores an image table including original images, each of a subset of the original images being mapped to a state value that represents at least a state of the physical environment around the system; a controller associated with the memory that selects an original image from the memory mapped to a determined state value from the image table and that processes the original image into sub-images; a driver that drives the plurality of flexible displays and forwards the processed sub-images from the controller to the plurality of flexible displays, respectively; and a first sensor that detects deformations in one or more of the plurality of flexible displays and sends deformation information that describes the deformations to the controller, wherein the controller compensates the sub-images for the deformations detected in the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays using the deformation information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20)
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12. A method for displaying images in a cooperative multi-display system, the method comprising:
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receiving a request to display an original image on a plurality of flexible displays; processing the original image into sub-images, each sub image corresponding to one of the plurality of flexible displays; detecting deformations in one or more of the plurality of flexible displays; generating deformation information that describes the deformations in the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays detected to have deformations; compensating the sub-images corresponding to the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays detected to have deformations based on the deformation information; sending to each of the one or more of the flexible displays detected to have deformations one of the compensated sub-images corresponding to the flexible displays detected to have deformations; sending to each of the flexible displays that do not have deformations one of the sub-images corresponding to the flexible displays that do not have deformations; receiving a state value that represents a state of the physical environment around the system; processing a replacement image mapped to the received state value into replacement sub-images; and sending each of the processed replacement sub-images to one of the plurality of flexible displays. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for displaying images in a cooperative multi-display system, the method comprising:
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selecting an original image stored in a memory for display on a plurality of flexible displays; processing the original image to generate a plurality of sub-images for display on the plurality of flexible displays, wherein each of the plurality of flexible displays one of the plurality of sub-images; detecting deformations in one or more of the plurality of flexible displays; compensating one or more of the plurality of sub-images that are displayed by the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays detected to have deformations for the deformations detected in the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays; displaying the compensated one or more of the plurality of sub-images distortion-free on the one or more of the plurality of flexible displays with detected deformations; receiving a state value that represents a state of the physical environment around the system; processing a replacement image mapped to the received state value into replacement sub-images; and sending each of the processed replacement sub-images to one of the plurality of flexible displays.
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