Patent ID: 8362970

Claim:
A method for arbitration during a self-organization process in an imaging system comprising at least a first input module and a second input module for distributing respective images and a plurality of microtile units in communication with each other and said first input module and said second input module, said first input module and said second input module enabled to exchange command signals with each of the plurality of microtile units and each other in said self-organization process, and each of the plurality of microtiles enabled to receive at least one image from said first input module and said second input module and generate respective portions of said at least one image, the method comprising: when said first input module and said second input module encounter one another during said self-organization process, then designating one of said first input module and said second input module as a system master based on which of said first input module and said second input module was a previous system master.