Video processing in modular display system and method

A method for controlling with an active receiver card a plurality of pixels of a tile of a display, the active receiver card being electrically connected to the tile of the display, the method comprising:

• receiving by a first interface a broadcast serialized video data stream as input from a video processing system;
• extracting by a processor of the active receiver card, from the received broadcast serialized video data stream, video image data pertaining to the tile of the display;
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• based on the extracted video image data pertaining to the tile, outputting, by a second interface of the active receiver card, control signals used to control the plurality of pixels of the tile of the display.

A modular display system configured to broadcast a serialized video data stream, comprising:

• a display for displaying the serialized video data stream, wherein the display comprising a plurality of tiles, comprising at least a first tile and a second tile;
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• a video processing system configured to output the serialized video data stream as a plurality of portions of the serialized video data stream, each of the plurality of portions of the serialized video data stream pertaining to a corresponding one of the plurality of tiles, such that the plurality of portions of the broadcast serialized video data stream comprises at least a first portion of the serialized video data stream comprising video image data pertaining to the first tile of the display and a second portion of the serialized video data stream comprising video image data pertaining to the second tile of the display;
• wherein the video processing system outputs both the first portion of the serialized video data stream and the second portion of the serialized video data stream combined as a single broadcast data stream to a first active receiver card corresponding to the first tile of the display and to a second active receiver card corresponding to the second tile of the display.