Patent ID: 8310408

Claim:
A method for displaying a graphical user interface and video among physical video display devices with different aspect ratios comprising: receiving at least one video input signal from a video input source device to a graphics display processor device; transmitting from the graphics display processor device to a first video display device with a first aspect ratio at least one first display video signal including data representing video images from data of the at least one video input signal to be displayed in a first pixel area and data representing a graphical user interface to be displayed in a second pixel area; displaying on the first video display device the video images in the first pixel area together with the graphical user interface in the second pixel area from the at least one first display video signal; creating on the graphics display processor device an intermediate video display signal including data representing video images from data of the at least one video input signal to be displayed in a first pixel area and data representing the graphical user interface to be displayed in the second pixel area; receiving the intermediate video display signal to a video cropping processor and transforming the intermediate video display signal to a second display video signal including data representing video images from data of the at least one video input signal in a first pixel area and without data representing the graphical user interface; and displaying on a second video display device video images from the at least one video input signal received from the video cropping processor, wherein the second video display device includes a second aspect ratio different from the first aspect ratio of the first video display device.