Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Plural display systems – Tiling or modular adjacent displays
Patent
1997-11-24
2000-07-04
Shalwala, Bipin
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Plural display systems
Tiling or modular adjacent displays
345 3, 345340, 345903, G09G 500
Patent
active
060845538
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for a computer system to recognize and initialize an arrangement of a plurality of physical monitors as a single logical screen (SLS). The invention translates a user's window operation request directed to the SLS into an SLS function. The SLS function is then translated into a plurality of device dependent functions, each of which performs the user's requested window operation on one physical monitor. The translation of the SLS function comprises an unwrapping of the SLS function by removing the SLS function and installing the plurality of device dependent functions, and the wrapping of the plurality of device dependent functions by removing the plurality of device dependent functions and installing the SLS function. The invention implements each of the unwrapping and wrapping operations in two assignment instructions. The invention further comprises the capability of generating a single simultaneous display wherein the image on one physical monitor is displayed on each physical monitor of the SLS configuration.
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Elliott Ian A.
Marks John
Walls Jeffrey J.
Hewlett -Packard Company
Lewis David L.
Shalwala Bipin
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