Tiled Display Research Articles

Compact tiled display with uniform illumination

The <i>Journal of Electronic Imaging</i> (JEI), copublished bimonthly with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, publishes peer-reviewed papers that cover research and applications in all areas of electronic imaging science and technology.

Active visualization in a multidisplay immersive environment

Building a system to actively visualize extremely large data sets on large tiled displays in a real-time immersive environment involves a number of challenges. First, the system must be completely scalable to support the rendering of large data sets. Second, it must provide fast, constant frame rates regardless of user viewpoint or model orientation. Third, it must output the highest resolution imagery where it is needed. Fourth, it must have a flexible user interface to control interaction with the display. This paper presents the prototype for a system which meets all four of these criteria. It details the design of a wireless user interface in conjunction with two different multiresolution techniques—foveated vision and progressive image composition—to generate images on a tiled display wall. The system emphasizes the parallel, multidisplay, and multiresolution features of the Metabuffer image composition hardware architecture to produce interactive renderings of large data streams with fast, constant frame rates.

TeraVision: a high resolution graphics streaming device for amplified collaboration environments

One of the common problems faced in amplified collaboration environments (ACEs), such as the Continuum, is termed the ‘Display docking’ or ‘Display Pushing’ problem where the visualization or the presentation generated on one or more computers, has to be distributed to remote sites for viewing by a group of collaborators. A typical image source in such a case could be computers ranging from laptops showing presentations, to compute clusters number crunching terabytes of data and rendering high resolution visualizations. In this paper, we present a platform independent solution which is capable of transmitting multiple high resolution video streams from such video sources to one or more destinations. The unique capability of this concept is that it is a completely hardware oriented solution, where no special software/hardware has to be installed on the source or destination machines to enable them to transmit their video. These multiple streams can either be independent of each other or they might be component streams of a video system, such as a tiled display or stereoscopic display. We shall also present results with testing on high speed dedicated long haul networks, and local area gigabit LANs with different Layer 4 protocols.

13.3: A Novel Approach to Tiled Displays

AbstractA novel approach to tiling is described in which an array of specially designed moulded light guides is used to form a magnified image of a standard AMLCD panel. These arrays can be tessellated to form visually uniform display surfaces of essentially unlimited size.

28.2: Tiled Display Utilizing Ceramic Actuators for Large Area Flat Panels

AbstractWe have developed a novel display device driven by micro ceramic actuator arrays. Typically 60–150 inch diagonal size direct viewing flat display can be flexibly built up by tiled display technology with non‐seal structure. We successfully built up 33 inch engineering model display.

Introduction to building projection-based tiled display systems

This tutorial introduces the concepts and technologies needed to build projector-based display systems. Tiled displays offer scalability, high resolution, and large formats for various applications. Tiled displays are an emerging technology for constructing semi-immersive visualization environments capable of presenting high-resolution images from scientific simulation. The largest impact may well arise from using large-format tiled displays as one of possibly multiple displays in building information or active spaces that surround the user with diverse ways of interacting with data and multimedia information flows. These environments may prove the ultimate successor to the desktop metaphor for information technology work. Several fundamental technological problems must be addressed to make tiled displays practical. These include: the choice of screen materials and support structures; choice of projectors, projector supports, and optional fine positioners; techniques for integrating image tiles into a seamless whole; interface devices for interaction with applications; display generators and interfaces; and the display software environment.