Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.

Sharp Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.

Keisuke Momose

Tooru Kataoka

Tohru Kataoka

A display device includes: a display unit daisy-chain connected to a source device that outputs an image signal encoded with a prescribed version of a standard specified as a prescribed standard, displaying an image generated by decoding the image signal encoded with the prescribed version; a determination unit that determines the number of connected sink devices that are daisy-chain connected to the source device; and a setting unit that sets, from among the prescribed versions, a version in which the image that was generated by decoding the image signal encoded by the source device is displayable on the display units of all of the daisy-chain connected sink devices, depending on the number of connected sink devices.

Display device, display method, and program

An image display device that is daisy-chain connected includes: a storage unit that holds identification data that include information of its own device; and a control unit that, when a next-stage side apparatus is connected that is an image display device that can receive a video signal relayed by its own device, receives the identification data of the next-stage side apparatus from that next-stage side apparatus, and when the identification data that were received indicate that the next-stage side apparatus is the same apparatus type as its own device, retains the identification data of its own device without alteration.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Momose