METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CONTENT FOR DISPLAY

摘要

The methods enable display of a data object over two display apparatuses on the fly by operatively connecting two independent content processing devices together. Each device is arranged for rendering a subset of a dataset representing a data object When shown by display devices fed by each content processing devices, display of the subsets result in display of at least part of the data object in a contiguous way over the joint display area provided by the display devices. Furthermore, it enables interactive control of the way the data object is displayed over a display area provided by the first display apparatus controlled by the first content processing device and the second display apparatus controlled by the second content processing device. The method may be extended to more than two screens. The devices may operate in a master-slave configuration or in a peer-to-peer configuration, with or without a central server.

主权项

1. In a first content processing device for processing content for display by a first display apparatus, a method of processing at least a part of a content item, comprising:
obtaining at least a first subset of a dataset representing the content item; rendering data comprised by the first subset for display by the first display apparatus; receiving a user input command for changing display of at least part of the content item by the first display apparatus; determining a second subset of the dataset, the second subset comprising data to be rendered for display by the first display apparatus in accordance with the user input command; rendering data comprised by the second subset for display by the first display apparatus; communicating, to a second content processing device, data enabling the second content processing device to render a third subset of the dataset for display by the second display apparatus, the communicated data enabling the second processing device to render the data in the third subset such that display by the second display apparatus of the rendered data of the third subset results in displaying at least part of the content item by the first display apparatus and the second display apparatus in a substantially contiguous way in accordance with the user input command.