Patent ID: 8957913
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input an image signal; a display unit configured to display an image based on the image signal input by the input unit on a display object; an observer information acquiring unit configured to acquire a number and positions of observers facing the display object; a display mode determining unit configured to determine a display mode including a direction of the image to be displayed by the display unit based on the number and the positions of the observers acquired by the observer information acquiring unit; and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the image on the display object in the display mode determined by the display mode determining unit; wherein the display mode determining unit determines the display mode including the direction of the image such that the image is displayed by the display unit as a single image, when the number of the observers acquired by the observer information acquiring unit is one and when the number of the observers acquired by the observer information acquiring unit is more than one.