Patent ID: 7908319
Filing Date: 2011-03-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display system including a first information display apparatus and a second information display apparatus, each of which are connected to a network and receives images from a server, and displays the received images, said first information display apparatus comprising: wherein the display format information includes a display format of a slide show in which a plurality of images are sequentially displayed and switched with time, and said second information display apparatus comprising: wherein, the second display control unit displays an icon representing the display format information transmitted from the transmitting unit of said first information display apparatus, overlapped on a partial area of an image, from among the plurality of images displayed on the second screen, which is a same image as the image being displayed on the first screen of said first information display apparatus, based on the image identification information and the display format information acquired by the acquiring unit, and wherein, when the display format information, which has been transmitted from the transmitting unit of the first information display apparatus and acquired by the acquiring unit, shows a display format of a slide show, the second display control unit changes a display position on the second screen of the icon representing the display format of the slide show, according to progress of the slide show in the first information display apparatus, and wherein, when a first image is displayed on the first screen of the first information display apparatus as part of the slide show, the position of the icon representing the display format of the slide show is displayed on the corresponding first image among the plurality of images simultaneously being displayed on the second screen of the second information display apparatus, and when the slide show being displayed on the first screen progresses to a second image, the position of the icon representing the display format of the slide show displayed on the second screen changes its location from the first image to the corresponding second image among the plurality of images simultaneously being displayed on the second screen.