Patent ID: 8884886

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling and selecting video input for one or more video output display devices, comprising: a programmable multimedia controller; one or more video output display devices interconnected with the programmable multimedia controller; one or more video input devices interconnected with the programmable multimedia controller; and a touch sensitive display interconnected with the programmable multimedia controller, the display and programmable multimedia controller collectively configured to present a first plurality of touch sensitive buttons that each represent a particular video output display device of the one or more video output display devices, present a second plurality of touch sensitive buttons that each represent a video input device, receive at least one video signal from the video input devices, display the at least one video signal in one or more touch sensitive buttons of the second plurality that each represent a video input device, in response to one of the one or more touch sensitive buttons of the second plurality being dragged and dropped by a user onto a button of the first plurality, display the at least one video signal in the button of the first plurality along with a visual indicator that indicates the video input device that sources the at least one video signal and establish a communication path for the at least one video signal to a user selected video output display device.