Patent ID: 8665176

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display section including a plurality of thin display devices formed at multiple layers such that their display screens overlap with one another, wherein at least one of the display devices closest to a viewing side of the display section is configured to be transparent; storage means for storing setting information, that is configurable by a user, associating each of a plurality of different application programs with at least one of the display devices; and control means for controlling each display of the plurality of display devices of the display section according to the setting information, wherein the control means is configured to select either a normal mode or a text mode in accordance with each of the plurality of different application programs, the normal mode being a mode for displaying image or video data, the text mode being a mode for displaying mostly textual information, and the control means uses the at least one of the display devices closest to the viewing side of the display section when the application program is in the normal mode, and uses one of the display devices farthest from the viewing side of the display section for a display when the application program is in the text mode, wherein each of the display devices has a plurality of display areas, and the setting information, which is configurable by the user, further associates each of the application programs with a plurality of settings corresponding to each individual display area of the display devices.