Patent ID: 8922497

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display screen; a device that detects an operation performed by a user in the display screen; a state decision unit that decides one of a contact state, a proximity state and a distant state with the display screen based on the user's operation detected by the device; a storage unit that stores a previous decision result by the state decision unit of deciding the one of the contact state, the proximity state and the distant state at a previous point in time; a state change identification unit that identifies a state change in the user's operation according to the state decided by the state decision unit and the previous decision result stored in the storage unit; and an operation command setting unit that sets an operation command depending on the state change identified by the state change identification unit when setting the operation command for controlling display of the display screen in response to the user's operation, wherein the state change identification unit identifies from which to which of the contact state, the proximity state and the distant state the operation performed by a user in the display screen has changed based on a decision result by the state decision unit, the state change identification unit identifies a state change from the contact state to the distant state with the display screen or a state change from the contact state to the proximity state with the display screen, based on the previous decision result stored in the storage unit and a current decision result decided by the state decision unit, and the operation command setting unit sets a different operation command depending on the state change identified by the state change identification unit.