Patent ID: 7561116

Claim:
A display system, comprising: a housing for a multi-monitor display; a central display mounted in the housing ; a left display mounted in the housing on one side of the central display; a right display mounted in the housing on the other side of the central display; a multiple display controller connected to the right display and the left display, and a first frame buffer to store a single frame of image data received from a computer, wherein no-contiguous display surfaces of the left and right displays are combined to form a single virtual display surface represented by a single frame in the first frame buffer, and wherein the non-contiguous display surfaces of the left and right displays are mapped to different regions within the single frame, and wherein the multiple display controller is configured to split a single frame of image data stored in the first frame buffer into first image data and second image data representing two separate and non-contiguous images comprising a first image and a second image, and wherein the first image is displayed on the left display and the second image is displayed on the right display, the multiple display controller providing information about the multi-monitor display to the computer, and wherein the first image data and the second image data in said first frame buffer are rotated before being displayed to match a scanning direction of the left display and the right display; a second display controller connected to the central display configured to provide a second frame buffer of image data displaying a third image from the computer to the central display; an operating system, residing in the computer, the operating system providing an application programming interface (API) to software applications, the API informing the software applications of the multi-monitor display, wherein the software applications alter images to utilize the first frame buffer and the second frame buffer to display three separate and non-contiguous images.