Patent ID: 8717424

Claim:
A display apparatus that can display three-dimensional video to a viewer wearing stereoscopic-viewing glasses, the display apparatus comprising: an input module to which video data is input; a display device; an image input module to which, from an image-capturing device that captures an image around the display apparatus and on a front side of the display device, the captured image is input; a detection module configured to detect an image of the stereoscopic-viewing glasses and/or a viewer's face from the input captured image; a determination module configured to further detect an eye of the viewer's face from the detected image and determines as to whether or not the viewer is wearing the stereoscopic-viewing glasses; a recording module configured to record the input video data when the determination module determines that the viewer is not wearing the stereoscopic-viewing glasses; and a decoding module configured to (i) decode the input video data and (ii) refrain from decoding the input video data if the determination module determines that the viewer is not wearing the stereoscopic-viewing glasses, wherein the display device is configured to display the three-dimensional video based on the decoded video data.