Patent ID: 8659702

Claim:
An image displaying apparatus comprising: a display unit; a touch type operating unit comprising a first group of at least one touch key and a second group of at least one touch key for performing various operations of the image displaying apparatus; a setting unit configured to set whether an on-screen display (OSD) is produced on the display unit for each operation item; first and second groups of light sources provided in the operating unit to respectively illuminate the first and second groups of touch keys; and a turn-on/off controller configured to control a turn-on/off state of the first group of light sources instead of the OSD when an operation is performed for an operation item that is not set to produce the OSD, wherein the image displaying apparatus controls the turn-on/off state of at least one of the first group of light sources or the second group of light sources in accordance with a touch operation of touch keys, and executes a preset operation of the image displaying apparatus in accordance with the touch operations of the touch keys, wherein the second group of touch keys relates to a power source operation, and the first group of touch keys relates to an operation other than the power source operation, and wherein the first group of touch keys includes two touch keys used to perform audio volume up and down operations, the first group of light sources further comprises other light sources of a different display color configured to respectively illuminate the two touch keys, and the turn-on/off controller controls the turn-on/off state of the other light sources when the item that is set not to display the OSD is one of audio volume and audio mute items and the operation is performed for the audio mute item.