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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Ping-Wen Ong, Middletown, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A panel display system having at least one source device coupled to a plurality of display units interconnected to form a larger display having any desired size and shape. Each display unit is a self-contained panel display having a video random access memory (VRAM) for storing image data, a controller for processing data signals to provide the image data to the VRAM, and an image display panel for displaying the image data. The self-contained panel displays substantially reduce the need for a separate driver card for each panel display, and substantially reduce the communications bandwidth between the source devices and the panel displays of the system. Means for interconnecting the display units include the use of data/control bus connectors and power line connectors, cables, network devices, local area networks, and/or wide area networks.