Patent ID: 8791967

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a light modulating unit configured to modulate light in accordance with a drive signal, and display an image in a display area; a light source unit including a basic light source and an extended light source illuminating each of divisional areas into which the display area is tentatively divided, the basic light source including a red light source having a first emission peak wavelength corresponding to red, a green light source having a second emission peak wavelength corresponding to green, and a blue light source having a third emission peak wavelength corresponding to blue, the extended light source having a fourth emission peak wavelength being different from the first emission peak wavelength, the second emission peak wavelength, and the third emission peak wavelength, and being within a range between the third emission peak wavelength and the first emission peak wavelength; a luminance setting unit configured to calculate, for each of the divisional areas, luminance values of the red light source, the green light source, the blue light source, and the extended light source based on a signal level of an input image signal; a luminance distribution calculating unit configured to calculate luminance distributions of colors corresponding to the first emission peak wavelength, the second emission peak wavelength, the third emission peak wavelength, and the fourth emission peak wavelength when the red light source, the green light source, the blue light source and the extended light source emit light in accordance with a luminance signal, sent from the luminance setting unit, and generate luminance distribution signals of the red light source, the green light source, the blue light source, and the extended light source; a signal level converting unit configured to convert, for each pixel of the input image signal level levels of sub-pixels of the pixel based on a combination of the luminance distribution signals and a combination of the sub-pixels, the sub-pixels indicating different color components; and a control unit configured to generate the drive signal based on a converted image signal and generate a control signal controlling the basic light source and the extended light source based on the luminance signal so as to provide a period in which the basic light source and the extended light source simultaneously emit light.