Presentation System

Abstract

A presentation system comprises a personal computer (PC) (1) and a display arrangement (3). The display arrangement (3) includes a large main monitor (5) and four small satellite monitors (7a-7d) arranged around the main monitor. Each monitor (5, 7a-7d) is a thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) and is separately connected to the PC (1) by a respective cable and video driver (not shown). An operating system is stored on the PC (1), as are two application programs, referred to herein as the interactive process visualisation (IPV) program and the multi-monitor support (MMS) program. The IPV program is an application which enables the user to show a presentation in the main monitor (5). This presentation can include a range of media, such as images, animations, video streams and so on. In addition, the IPV program is arranged to run an executable command which invokes one or more instantiations of the MMS program. The purpose of the MMS program is to enable convenient control over what is displayed on a selected one of the satellite monitors (7a-7d). Thus, the command in the IPV program can be used to invoke up to four separate instantiations of the MMS program to control what is displayed on up to four satellite monitors (7a-7d). By incorporating suitable commands at different sections of the main IPV presentation, for example when a particular slide is shown, it is possible to synchronise content displayed on the main monitor (5) with other (e.g. related) content displayed on the satellite monitors (7a-7d).

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