Patent ID: 8300151

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a display unit which displays an image; an image processing unit which processes an input image signal to be displayed in the display unit, and displays a mute image in the display unit during a mute time when changing the input image signal; a control unit which controls the image processing unit to gradually convert the input image signal displayed on a total screen of the display unit to the mute image to shorten the displaying time of the mute image during a mute generating time before displaying the mute image and to gradually convert the mute image to a recovery image of a changed image signal during a mute disappearing time after displaying the mute image in the display unit if a change signal for changing the input image signal is input; and a user input unit for determining at least one of a mute generating type, from among a plurality of selectable mute generating types, which gradually converts the input image signal displayed on the total screen of the display unit to the mute image, and a mute disappearing type, from among a plurality of selectable mute disappearing types, which gradually converts the mute of the display unit to the recovery image of the changed image signal.