The disclosure relates to monitor interface for interfacing an image manager to a monitor. The interface includes a set of input ports for receiving a set of input image signals from the image manager, respectively. The interface includes a set of image multiplexers configured to multiplex pairs of the set of input image signals to generate output image signals, respectively. The interface further includes a set of output ports configured to produce the output image signals, respectively. The set of output ports are configured to be compliantly mated with a set of input ports of a monitor. The monitor is configured to simultaneously render images on separate portions of a screen based on the output image signals, respectively. From the image manager perspective, the monitor interface appears as it is a legacy monitor, and provides authentication information pertaining to the legacy monitor to the image manager.
