Patent ID: 8081140

Claim:
A multi-screen system comprising: an image source device for: providing a video signal comprised of original images, generating control information, based on input image segment options, that comprises: (a) position indicators that define user adjustable parameters for respective image segments of one or more of the original images, and (b) display device ID information that associates the position indicators to respective display devices in the multi-screen system, adding the control information to the video signal to form a combined signal, and transmitting the combined signal; and a plurality of display devices to receive the combined signal and detect the control information from the video signal, wherein: the plurality of display devices correspond to said respective display devices, each display device of the plurality of display devices is assigned a unique display device ID stored in a memory, each display device is to extract an image segment from the video signal according to a position indicator having a corresponding display device ID detected from the control information that matches the display device ID stored in the memory, and the extracted image segments are to be displayed on corresponding ones of the display devices according to respective ones of the position indicators.