On-screen display systems
AssigneeAdder Technology Limited
InventorsNigel Anthony Dickens, Douglas Gilchrist Reid
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Abstract
Apparatus, systems and methods for generating a hybrid on screen display are described. A background image portion of a user interface is generated at a switching device. Video data representing the background image portion of the user interface is transmitted to a user station of a user console. The video data is modified at the user station as it is received using video data representing a user interface element that is specific to the user station. A customized user interface is displayed on a display device attached to the user station.
Claims34
A switching device for selectively connecting a user station to one of a plurality of computers, the switching device comprising;
- a plurality of computer interfaces;
- a user station interface;
- a video switch operable to selectively provide a video path between a one of the computer interfaces and the user station interface;
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- video processing circuitry configured to form a background image for a user interface, selectively receive video data from the video switch from said one of the computer interfaces and generate a thumbnail screen image for the computer from the received video data and include the thumbnail screen image in the background image and output video data representing the background image to the video switch, wherein the video switch is further operable to selectively output the video data representing the background image to the user station interface.
A method of providing a customised user interface to a user console including a display device, the method comprising:
- generating a background image portion of a user interface at a switching device, wherein the back ground image portion includes a plurality of thumbnail images of respective screens of a plurality of computers;
- transmitting video data representing the background image portion of the user interface to a user station of a user console;
- modifying the video data at the user station as the video data is received at the user station using video data representing a user interface element that is specific to the user station;
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- displaying the customised user interface on a display device attached to the user station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.