Patent ID: 9086777
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A smart display comprising: a display screen connected to a pixel memory in the smart display, wherein the pixel memory includes an input pixel buffer and a custom pixel buffer; a processor and a memory; a display data input that receives display data from a single video source, wherein the display data is pixel rendering data that includes pixel position and color with user interface blocks having an original layout, wherein the display data is received from a graphics processing unit of a computer connected to the display data input of the smart display and placed in the input pixel buffer; a customization mechanism stored in the memory of the smart display and executing on the processor of the smart display that creates custom layout metadata in response to user input for a plurality of the user interface blocks in the display data received from the single video source of the computer connected to the smart display and placed in the input pixel buffer; layout customization logic in the memory of the smart display that uses the custom layout metadata to reassign the received display data in the input pixel buffer to a new location in the custom pixel buffer to relocate the plurality of user interface blocks to a custom layout on the display screen; and wherein the layout customization logic uses the pixel offset to reassign the at least one pixel block to the user assigned location on the display screen.