SBIR Phase I: Enabling Sharable Infrastructure for the Human/Computer Interface

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目解决了计算机系统和用户界面组件（如显示器和键盘）之间无缝互操作性的挑战。今天，这些组件与计算机紧密结合，这限制了两者的实用性特别是在移动的计算系统中，用户总是必须在可用的显示器和合理的便携性之间进行选择。一个熟悉的机会表现是“会议显示交换”问题。该项目的总体目标是开发和指定健壮、高效和安全的接口，使计算机能够通过中等带宽的网络连接动态地发现、连接和使用显示器。第一阶段的调查将集中在有效的编码技术，可互操作的虚拟显示界面，可以运行在现有的无线网络技术。该接口将使多台计算机能够通过软件串行共享投影显示器。从长远来看，它解放了移动的计算系统，使其能够独立于显示技术发展，并导致了一种将用户界面设备视为公共基础设施的模式。这项研究在许多行业中具有商业应用，这些行业通常需要无缝显示共享，但尚未得到支持，例如会议管理，高等教育和医学。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the challenge of seamless interoperability among computer systems and user interface components such as displays and keyboards. Today these components are tightly coupled with the computer, which restricts the utility of both-especially in mobile computing systems, where users invariably have to choose between usable displays and reasonable portability. A familiar manifestation of the opportunity is the "conference display swap" problem. The over-all goal of the project is to develop and specify robust, efficient and secure interfaces that enable computers to dynamically discover, connect to and use displays over moderate-bandwidth network connections. The Phase I investigation will focus on efficient encoding techniques for an interoperable virtual display interface that can be run over existing wireless network technologies. The interface will make it possible for multiple computers to share a projection display serially via software. In the longer term, it frees mobile computing systems to evolve independently of display technology, and leads to a model in which user interface devices are considered public infrastructure.This research has commercial application in a number of industries where seamless display sharing is routinely required but is not yet supported, such as conference management, higher education, and medicine.