Patent ID: 9591259
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G09G,H04N

Claim:
1. A display device comprising: a display unit; a determination unit that determines whether or not a video content based on an input video signal is monochrome or color; and a control unit that sets a display mode according to a result of the above determination and makes the display unit display an image corresponding to the input video signal in the display mode, wherein: when the video content based on the input video signal is color, the determination unit makes the display unit display the image corresponding to the input video signal in a display mode corresponding to color display; when the video content based on the input video signal is monochrome, the determination unit makes the display unit display the image corresponding to the input video signal in a display mode corresponding to monochromatic display; when the input video signal is monochrome, the determination unit further determines whether or not the video content based on the input video signal is text or a graphic; if the video content based on the input video signal is a graphic, the control unit makes the display unit display the image corresponding to the input video signal a display mode corresponding to graphics; and if the video content based on the input video signal is text, the control unit makes the display unit display the image corresponding to the input video signal a display mode corresponding to text.