Patent ID: 6839061

Claim:
An image display system which transmits and receives supplied data which can be converted by a virtual machine, comprising: a transmission line; and a plurality of processing devices connected via the transmission line, an image being created and displayed among the plurality of processing devices, at least two processing devices of the plurality of processing devices each including an image display device, at least one of the image display devices including: a converter, in which the virtual machine is provided, that converts said supplied data into a data format in which an image can be displayed, the virtual machine including a plurality of threads and stack areas to perform parallel processing; a communication interface section that receives said supplied data from another processing device; and a storage medium in which created images are stored and which can be accessed from another processing device via said communication interface section, each of said at least one of the image display devices and another image display device reading some respective portion of said created images from said storage medium and displaying the read respective portion of said created images in a shared manner for a real-time unified image display, the another image display device including said converter and said communication interface section, thereby achieving the real-time unified image display from a distributed processing environment processing different distributed image data.