SBIR Phase II: The Media Fusion Project: A Distributed Architecture for Mega-Pixel Displays

SBIR 第二阶段：媒体融合项目：百万像素显示器的分布式架构

• 批准号: 0750202
• 负责人: Christopher Jaynes
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Mersive Technologies, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0750202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Media; Fusion

This SBIR Phase II project will develop and deliver a software media architecture that removes a critical barrier to the widespread use of multi-projector, high-resolution, ultra definition displays. The approach defines a set of layered abstractions from the low-level display driver to higher-level protocols including multi-user display use and security. This model is the bedrock of a new display architecture that will not constrain future display innovations, allow content developers and producers to communicate to current and future display systems, and acts to isolate the underlying complexities of new display technologies from users. Building on this new architecture, the Phase II project will implement a software-based Display Operating System. The project is motivated by the perception that we will soon live in a world where displays cease to be individual discreet devices but rather become an extension of our environment; a limitless fabric of pixels. The potential impact of this innovation is significant, by removing the usability and cost barriers normally associated with ultrahigh-resolution displays, applications once available to only a select few can become commonplace. This has the potential to change the advanced visualization, media interaction models, as well as the way in which we interact with our computational environments.

SBIR二期项目将开发并交付一种软件媒体架构，消除了广泛使用多投影机、高分辨率、超高清显示器的关键障碍。该方法定义了一组从低级显示驱动程序到高级协议（包括多用户显示使用和安全性）的分层抽象。该模型是新显示架构的基础，它不会限制未来的显示创新，允许内容开发者和生产者与当前和未来的显示系统进行交流，并将新显示技术的潜在复杂性与用户隔离开来。在这个新架构的基础上，第二期项目将实现一个基于软件的显示操作系统。该项目的动机是，我们很快就会生活在一个显示器不再是个人谨慎设备的世界，而是成为我们环境的延伸；一个无限的像素结构。这项创新的潜在影响是巨大的，通过消除超高分辨率显示器的可用性和成本障碍，曾经只有少数人可以使用的应用程序可以变得普遍。这有可能改变先进的可视化、媒体交互模型，以及我们与计算环境交互的方式。