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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Lewis Epstein, San Mateo, CA (US);
Brett Kincaid, Lowell, MI (US);
Hyun Yoo, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Suzanne Stage, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lukas Scherrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Larry Cheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
STEELCASE INC., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of selecting video source devices to drive first and second presentation spaces provided by at least one display screen in a collaborative workspace, the method comprising the steps of providing a control assembly that includes a plurality of control interfaces, each control interface including a separate selectable control associated with each of the presentation spaces, associating at least first and second video sources with first and second of the control interfaces, respectively, for each of the control interfaces, when a selectable control is selected, providing video information from the video source device associated with the control interface used to make the selection to the presentation space associated with the selectable control such that a plurality of video images from at least first and second different video source devices can be presented simultaneously in the presentation spaces.