Patent ID: RE41104

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a display device capable of displaying motion picture data; a display control portion which generates a video signal to form a display image to be displayed on the display device; a video processing portion which adjusts a quality of the video signal generated by the display control portion and scales a size of the video signal generated by the display control portion in either one of a linear scaling mode and nonlinear scaling mode; and a control unit which sets a display control mode for sending the video signal to the display device as a first mode for sending the video signal to the display device with interposition of the video processing portion when the quality of the video signal generated by the display control portion is adjusted, and the control unit which sets the display control mode for sending the video signal to the display device as a second mode for sending the video signal to the display device without interposition of the video processing portion when the quality of the video signal generated by the display control portion is not adjusted.