Patent ID: 7054916

Claim:
A display device, which can directly connect to a network, comprising: an interface circuit, which is connected to a communication line through which an information packet including image information, control information, and header information indicating sender and receiver addresses of said information is transmitted, and which fetches said information packet from said communication line; an image signal processing circuit connecting to said interface circuit for producing image signals based on the image information contained in said information packet; a control circuit connecting to said interface circuit for controlling operation of said image signal processing circuit according to the control information contained in said information packet provided from said interface circuit without instruction which is received on the display device independently; and a display panel for displaying image based on said image signals produced by said image signal processing circuit, wherein said interface circuit, to which is assigned an inherent address unique within the network, detects a match between the inherent address and the receiver address of said header information and identifies the sender address of said header information to permit display of images with specific addresses.