Anywhere pixel router

Abstract

Large-format, high-resolution displays have experienced significant growth in demand across a broad range of markets, including command and control rooms, immersive simulation environments, entertainment events, and corporate conference rooms. The need has arisen for a rapidly deployable, cost effective solution for creating large, seamless displays of high resolution dynamic content from multiple independent sources. We propose the Pixel Router as an essential piece of technology toward meeting this need. This scalable, custom hardware solution allows the mapping of pixels from any input to any output while performing composition operations, all based on a simple look-up table. Coupled with existing camera-based projector calibration techniques to describe the specific pixel routing and blending for a given display, this system can provide a rapidly deployable solution for viewing high resolution content from many sources simultaneously.