Patent ID: 8624960
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G02B,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a display screen to display a plurality of views simultaneously; a controller to control the plurality of views presented on the display screen; inputs to receive a plurality of streams of video data from one or more sources, wherein the inputs may receive the streams of video data in a plurality of different formats; and an aligning device to cause the plurality of streams of video data to be in a common format; wherein the apparatus is configurable by the controller to provide a plurality of view settings, the view settings including a first setting in which the apparatus provides a single view to each viewer of the display screen and a second setting in which the apparatus provides a first view to a first viewer of the display screen and a second view to a second viewer of the display screen, wherein the first view is generated from a first stream of video data and the second view is generated from a second stream of video data; wherein a first filtering element filters views presented to viewers of the display screen such that an intended view is displayed to one or more viewers.