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US 8,046,706 B2Granted
Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJong-ho Lee, Kwang-kee Lee, Un-gyo Jung, Glenn A. Adams
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Abstract
An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module producing at least one of logical screens and display screens for displaying a service, and an output module mapping the logical screens to arbitrary locations on the display screens and providing the display screens to a plurality of physical display devices.
Claims48
An apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit which receives a plurality of services, wherein the plurality of services comprises services selected from a group comprising a video service, an audio service and a data service via data broadcasting;
- a first module which associates a plurality of logical screens with the received plurality of services, wherein a plurality of screens comprises the plurality of logical screens and a plurality of display screens;
- a second module which associates the plurality of logical screens with a first display screen of the plurality of display screens;
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- a processor which, in cooperation with the first module and the second module, performs:
- associating the first display screen associated with the plurality of logical screens, with at least one physical display device,
- wherein each of the plurality of screens is a screen object and classified into one among the plurality of logical screens or one of the plurality of display screens based on type information among attribute information of the screen object, and
- wherein each logical screen is to be visibly or invisibly displayed on the plurality of display screens based on visibility information among the attribute information of screen object of the each logical screen.
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A method in a device providing a plurality of screens for presenting a plurality of services, the method comprising:
- receiving the plurality of services, wherein the plurality of services comprises services selected from a group comprising a video service, an audio service and a data service via data broadcasting;
- associating a plurality of logical screens with the received plurality of services, wherein a plurality of screens comprises the plurality of logical screens and a plurality of display screens;
- associating the plurality of logical screens with a first display screen of the plurality of display screens;
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- associating the first display screen associated with the plurality of logical screens, with at least one physical display device,
- wherein each of the plurality of screens is a screen object and classified into one among the plurality of logical screens or one of the plurality of display screens based on type information among attribute information of the screen object, and
- wherein each logical screen is to be visibly or invisibly displayed on the plurality of display screens based on visibility information among the attribute information of screen object of the each logical screen.
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A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of services, wherein the plurality of services comprises services selected from a group comprising a video service, an audio service and a data service via data broadcasting;
- associating a plurality of logical screens with the received plurality of services, wherein a plurality of screens comprises the plurality of logical screens and a plurality of display screens;
- associating the plurality of logical screens with a first display screen of the plurality of display screens;
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- associating the first display screen associated with the plurality of logical screens, with at least one physical display device,
- wherein each of the plurality of screens is a screen object and classified into one among the plurality of logical screens or one of the plurality of display screens based on type information among attribute information of the screen object, and
- wherein each logical screen is to be visibly or invisibly displayed on the plurality of display screens based on visibility information among the attribute information of screen object of the each logical screen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.