Patent ID: 8375301

Claim:
A display system for displaying streaming image data, comprising: display generator units each comprising a graphical processor unit and a memory, at least one decoding unit providing decoded signals of images to be displayed over a plurality of display units to the graphical processor unit for rendering, a shared resource network linking the display generator units, the shared resource network receiving a plurality of input source signals encoding the images to be displayed over a plurality of display units, the shared resource network distributing the input source signals to the plurality of display units via the at least one decoding unit and via the display generator units, one input of each display unit being connected to a respective one of the display generator units, the display units being for display of at least some of the images encoded in the input source signals, at least some of the display units being arranged side-by-side to form a multi-head display, wherein each display generator unit stores a configuration document, the configuration document including: a definition of a task for each of said display generator unit linked by the shared resource network, a description of all images to be displayed on each of the plurality of display units, and data related to location of all said images to be displayed over a plurality of display units and encoded by the input source signals received by the shared resource network, wherein each of the display generator units independently performs the task defined in the configuration document to display the images over the plurality of display units, and wherein the display units are further capable of displaying metadata that is embedded in or related to the displayed images.