Cellular multiscreen system
View Patent ↗A cellular multiscreen system forms an image which can be a frame of a video or still image, divides that image into a number of parts, and sends each part to a different cellular telephone. The cellular telephones which receives the images collectively can display the images so that one can see the original image by looking at the multiple different cellular telephones. A game can also be played by determining which of the cellular phones receive which portion of the image.
1. A device, comprising:
a first part, which obtains frames of videos to be displayed as images at different times;
a dividing part, which separates the images into multiple different pieces, said multiple different pieces being a number that is substantially the same as a number of cellular phones that obtain the images to be displayed; and
a transmitter, which transmits said multiple different pieces which collectively make up the image to said number of cellular phones, each of said pieces being transmitted to a different cellular phone, wherein said first frame has a first actor that is shown on a first of said cellular phones in a first frame of the video, and has a second frame of the video that has said actor shown on a second one of said cellular phones but not on said first one of said cellular phones, wherein said transmitter transmits other information from said first and second frames on others of said cellular phones other than said first and second cellular phones.
2. A device as in claim 1 , wherein said image is part of a game played using said multiple cellular phones.
3. A device, comprising:
a first part, which obtains frames of videos to be displayed as images at different times;
a dividing part, which separates the images into multiple different pieces, said multiple different pieces being a number that is substantially the same as a number of cellular phones that obtain the images to be displayed; and
a transmitter, which transmits said multiple different pieces which collectively make up the image to said number of cellular phones, each of said pieces being transmitted to a different cellular phone,
wherein said image comprises an image with text therein, and said image is divided by said dividing part so that each phone shows an integer number of characters making up the text, where said integer number of characters is less than a complete word.
4. A device, comprising:
a first part, which obtains an image to be displayed;
a determination part, which determines based on a criterion, how many cellular phones will be used to collectively receive the image to be displayed;
a dividing part, which separates the image into multiple different pieces, said multiple different pieces being a number that is substantially the same as the number of cellular phones that obtain the image to be displayed; and
a transmitter, which transmits said multiple different pieces which collectively make up the image to said number of cellular phones, each of said different pieces being transmitted to a different cellular phone, wherein said image comprises a frame of a video, wherein a first frame of the video has an actor that is shown on a first of said cellular phones, and has a second frame of the video that has said actor shown on a second one of said cellular phones but not on said first one of said cellular phones, and
wherein other cellular phones besides said first and second cellular phones show background.
5. A method, comprising:
obtaining an image associated with playing a game;
dividing said image into multiple different sub images;
transmitting each of said sub images to a different cellular phone; and
on each of said cellular phones, playing a game using said sub images; and maintaining a score based on said playing said game,
wherein said image includes at least one person and at least one background portion, and said game is played by determining which phone of said plurality of phones gets the most images of the person.
6. A method, comprising:
obtaining an image to be sent to plural different cellular phones;
automatically determining how many cellular phones will receive the image;
dividing the image into multiple different parts, said parts of an amount that is equal to the number of cellular phones that will receive the image;
sending said multiple different parts to said multiple different cellular phones, so that each cellular phone receives only part of the image; and
on each of the multiple different cellular phones, displaying said part of the image that is received, wherein said image is a text image, and said dividing divides the text image in a way to provide specified characters on specified phones, where each phone gets only a portion of a word within said text image.
7. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said only a portion of the word received by each phone is only a single character.