Patent ID: 8970470
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus comprising: a display panel; a backlight having emission brightness levels adjustable for each of a plurality of divided sections; a graphic image generator that generates a graphic image signal; a synthesizer that generates a synthetic image signal representing a synthetic image in which a graphic image based on the graphic image signal is overlapped on an input image based on an input image signal; and a controller that controls the emission brightness levels of the backlight for each of the divided sections on the basis of the input image signal and the graphic image signal, wherein the controller determines, for each of divided sections, a proportion of size of a graphic image display region contained in the divided section relative to the size of the divided section, the graphic image display region being a region where the graphic image is displayed, the controller obtains brightness characteristic value of the input image data corresponding to each divided section, of which the proportion is smaller than a predetermined value, and the controller controls the emission brightness levels of the backlight of a plurality of divided sections, of which the portion is not smaller than the redetermined value, to be uniform, and controls the emission brightness level of the backlight of each divided section, of which the proportion is smaller than the predetermined value, on the basis of the brightness characteristic value of the input image signal.