Patent ID: 8259232
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image display apparatus comprising: an image receiving unit that receives an image signal on which additional display information is superimposed, the additional display information including a first content to be visibly displayed to a user regarding the received image signal; an image display unit that visibly displays the image signal and the additional display information in a display screen, the additional display information being displayed such that the first content of the additional display information is visibly displayed to the user at a display position of the display screen; and an information display unit that visibly displays predetermined display information having a second content to the user on the display screen, the second content of the predetermined display information being determined to be same content as the first content of the additional display information; wherein, the information display unit visibly displays the second content at the same display position of the first content being displayed on the display screen, such that the displayed second content overlies the displayed first content, and, such that the first content and the second content which are determined to be the same content are not visibly displayed in duplicate on the display screen to the user.