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

Claim 11:
12. A display system, comprising:
a display comprising first and second display surfaces, wherein the first display surface is formed from a plurality of vertically adjacent first rows each comprising one or more first display modules and the second display surface is formed from a plurality of vertically adjacent second rows each comprising one or more second display modules, wherein each of the first display, modules comprises a plurality of first light-emitting elements mounted to a front face of the first display module, wherein each of the second display modules comprises a plurality of second light-emitting elements mounted to a front face of the second display module, wherein the first light-emitting elements of the plurality of the first display modules are configured to collectively display one or more of video, graphical, or textual information on the first display surface, and wherein the second light-emitting elements of the plurality of the second display modules are configured to collectively display one or more of video, graphical, or textual information on the second 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 first display modules of a first bottom-most row of the plurality of vertically adjacent first rows and to one or more of the second display modules of a second bottom-most row of the plurality of vertically adjacent first rows, wherein the first bottom-most row and the second bottom-most row are located at the 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 first bottom-most row and the second bottom-most row, wherein the first bottom-most row provides underlying support for vertically adjacent first rows that are vertically above the first bottom-most row and the second bottom-most row provides underlying support for the vertically adjacent second rows that are vertically above the second 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 first rows of the first display modules of the first display surface and all of the plurality of the vertically adjacent second rows of the second display modules of the second display surface, and
wherein the primary support for all of the plurality of the vertically adjacent first rows of the first display modules of the first display surface and for all of the plurality of the vertically adjacent second rows of the second display modules of the second display surface is from the underlying support.