Patent ID: 11930603
Assignee: DAKTRONICS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A display system comprising:
a display comprising a display surface formed from a plurality of vertically adjacent module rows each comprising one or more display modules, wherein each display module comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted to a front face of the display module, wherein the light-emitting elements of the plurality of the display modules are configured to collectively display one or more of video, graphical, or textual information on the display surface;
one or more tension members configured to be coupled to and hang from a support structure external to the display system such that the one or more tension members support the display in a hanging manner from the support structure so that the display is vertically below the support structure; and
one or more base supporting members coupled to one or more of the display modules of a bottom-most row of the plurality of vertically adjacent rows located at a vertical bottom of the display;
wherein the one or more tension members hang from the support structure down to the vertical bottom of the display and couple to the one or more base supporting members, thereby supporting the one or more base supporting members such that the one or more tension members and the one or more base supporting members provide underlying support to the bottom-most row, and wherein the bottom-most row provides underlying support for vertically adjacent module rows that are vertically above the bottom-most row, so that the one or more tension members and the one or more base supporting members provide underlying support to all of the plurality of the vertically adjacent rows of the display modules of the display surface, and
wherein the primary support for all of the plurality of the vertically adjacent rows of the display modules of the display surface is from the underlying support.