A conferencing assembly for sharing content from source devices includes a common display screen, a switcher controlling input to the screen, and a table assembly with a tabletop opening. A control cable assembly has a first end linked to the switcher, a second ends having a plug connectable to a source device communication port, and a first control cable located therebetween. A take up assembly including a first weight is disposed below the opening. The control cable assembly links to the first weight to apply a force tending to pull the second end of the control cable assembly toward the opening. A first user interface including a control button useable to send a signal to the switcher causing it to provide first content from a source device connected to the control cable assembly to the screen is integrated into the table assembly and is associated with the control cable assembly.

A display device and a method for controlling same are provided which are capable of suppressing power consumption of an electronic apparatus while supplying a user with various types of information in various display formats. The display device has a first display block including a processor with relatively high processing power and a display section with high display performance and a second display block including a processor with relatively low processing power and a display section with low display performance. The processors mutually collaborate and are controlled to properly use the first display block and the second display block in accordance with an operation mode.

An information display device for displaying activity schedule of an assigned user provided with one of seats in advance, detects position and direction of the information display device; acquires distance from the information display device to a display target seat of an assigned user whose activity schedule is to be displayed; uses the position, the direction, and the distance to calculate display seat position of the display target seat; extracts, from a table which registers assigned user information of assigned users of the seats in association with registration seat position of the seats, one piece of the assigned user information registered in association with one piece of the registration seat position which is closest to the display seat position; acquires current activity schedule registered in association with the one piece of the assigned user information; and displays the acquired activity schedule on a display unit.

To suppress an unnatural movement of a moving object at a connection point when a plurality of pieces of video data are connected to each other. A frame acquisition unit 22 acquires pieces of frame data captured at the same time, from the pieces of video data input from cameras C1 and C2. A prohibited-region setting unit 24 sets a prohibited region that is not set as a calculation target when a seam is calculated, based on a position of an object detected in an overlap region between adjacent pieces of frame data and a movement direction of the object. A seam calculation unit 25 calculates a seam between pieces of frame data adjacent to each other, without setting a pixel included in the prohibited region as the calculation target of seam calculation. A connection-frame output unit 26 connects pieces of frame data in accordance with the seam and outputs connection frame data 15.

In a normal state, a video input interface receives video data. In a setup state, a control input interface receives multiple items of compressed image data, and stores the compressed image data in memory. In the normal state, a decoder reads one item from among the multiple items of compressed image data from the memory according to an instruction signal that indicates graphics data to be displayed, and decodes the compressed image data thus read so as to reproduce the original graphics data before compression. A multiplexer superimposes the graphics data on the video data.

A display controller reads, from frame buffers, data on a first image and a second image, and converts, with a conversion formula depending on the characteristics in terms of luminance of the data, the data to data in a blend space having common characteristics. Then, the display controller performs alpha blending on the converted data in the blend space, further converts the data to a space having characteristics suitable for a display, and outputs the resultant to the display.

A content sharing device for use in controlling content replicated from a video source device on a large common display screen, the content sharing device comprising a housing, a processor supported by the housing, at least first and second control buttons supported by the housing and linked to the processor, a cable linked to the processor and having a distal end opposite the processor, the cable including a connector at the distal end for linking to the video source device, wherein, the processor is programmed to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a first field on the common display screen upon selection of the first control button and to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a second field adjacent to and separate from the first field upon selection of the second control button.

A content sharing device for use in controlling content replicated from a video source device on a large common display screen, the content sharing device comprising a housing, a processor supported by the housing, at least first and second control buttons supported by the housing and linked to the processor, a cable linked to the processor and having a distal end opposite the processor, the cable including a connector at the distal end for linking to the video source device, wherein, the processor is programmed to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a first field on the common display screen upon selection of the first control button and to enable content from the video source device linked to the connector to be replicated in a second field adjacent to and separate from the first field upon selection of the second control button.

A conferencing assembly for sharing content from source devices includes a common display screen, a switcher controlling input to the screen, and a table assembly with a tabletop opening. A control cable assembly has a first end linked to the switcher, a second ends having a plug connectable to a source device communication port, and a first control cable located therebetween. A take up assembly including a first weight is disposed below the opening. The control cable assembly links to the first weight to apply a force tending to pull the second end of the control cable assembly toward the opening. A first user interface including a control button useable to send a signal to the switcher causing it to provide first content from a source device connected to the control cable assembly to the screen is integrated into the table assembly and is associated with the control cable assembly.

A conferencing assembly for sharing content from source devices includes a common display screen, a switcher controlling input to the screen, and a table assembly with a tabletop opening. A control cable assembly has a first end linked to the switcher, a second ends having a plug connectable to a source device communication port, and a first control cable located therebetween. A take up assembly including a first weight is disposed below the opening. The control cable assembly links to the first weight to apply a force tending to pull the second end of the control cable assembly toward the opening. A first user interface including a control button useable to send a signal to the switcher causing it to provide first content from a source device connected to the control cable assembly to the screen is integrated into the table assembly and is associated with the control cable assembly.