Patent ID: 7495633
Filing Date: 2009-02-24
Classification: G06F,G09F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An image display apparatus comprising: a plurality of thin display devices, each having a communication unit for transmitting and receiving image data expressing an image and a display unit for displaying an image based on the image data received by the communication unit; and a holding stand, for substantially vertically holding the plurality of thin display devices, having a transmission unit for transmitting the image data to the thin display devices, wherein a front surface of the holding stand has a U-shaped section at both each of two side ends and a another U-shaped section at a lower end, wherein the holding stand further includes an adding unit for adding, to the image data, page information expressing a page to be displayed in the plurality of thin display devices and page position information expressing a current page position of the image data by updating pages, and transmits the image data, to which the page information and the page position information have been added by the adding unit, to the thin display device by the transmission unit; and the thin display devices further include a decision unit for comparing the page information and the page position information of the image data received by the communication unit with each other to decide whether or not the page information and the page position information coincide with each other, an updating unit for updating the page position information after the decision made by the decision unit, and a sending unit for sending the image data, to which the page information and the page position information updated by the updating unit have been added, to the thin display device of the subsequent page or the holding stand.