Patent ID: 7845801
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control interface system for connecting hosts having different communication standards to an image projection arrangement, comprising: an assembly for projecting an image by sweeping a laser beam as a pattern of scan lines, each scan line having a number of pixels, and a controller for causing selected pixels to be illuminated, and rendered visible, by the laser beam to produce the image, the controller having a video data channel for receiving video data from a host, and a control data channel for bidirectionally transmitting and receiving control data to and from the host; and a plurality of input communication ports on the controller, each input communication port being operative for communicating the control data at a different communication standard, a selected one of the input communication ports having a communications standard matching the communications standard of the host being connected over the control data channel to the host.