Patent ID: 7457670

Claim:
A control system for a console based lighting system, comprising: a housing, housing a plurality of computers, and having a network connection which receives network commands indicating a plurality of different images to be drawn on a plurality of different projector sources; a keyboard and monitor, coupled to said housing; each computer of said plurality of computers connected to receive one of said network commands representing one of said images, and to carry out image processing on said network commands, each computer producing a video output representing a video scene formed by each of said network commands, and wherein each of said scenes created by each of said layers, is formed of a plurality of different image layers; and a keyboard/monitor switch, coupled to each of said computers and to said keyboard and monitor, and connected to allow said keyboard and monitor to provide commands to and receive output from any of said plurality of computers; and wherein said computers carry out said image processing using compiled commands, which are compiled in a language that is native to a hypothetical processor, different than a language of a processor in said housing.