Patent ID: 6885407

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying a guide line for picture adjustment in a monitor; comprising: a control section for recognizing a command for executing a picture adjustment mode from a user, and outputting commands for generating an OSD and a guideline, respectively; a guideline information providing section for receiving the command for generating the guideline from the control section, and outputting information related to forming the guideline; an image signal generator for receiving information related to forming the guideline from the guideline information providing section, and outputting an image signal to construct a picture including the guideline corresponding to the information related to the guideline; an OSD generating section for receiving the command for generating the OSD from the control section, and outputting an OSD image signal to adjust a picture; an image amplifying section for combining the image signal including the guideline outputted from the image signal generator with the OSD image signal outputted from the OSD generating section; and a display section for displaying an output of the image amplifying section on a display screen.