Patent ID: 8199067

Claim:
A display apparatus having a first display unit, a second display unit, a first control unit which controls said first display unit, and a second control unit which controls said second display unit, wherein: said first control unit, in response to an instruction to said display apparatus to enter a standby state from a power-on state, after sending predetermined information that should be displayed on said second display unit to said second control unit, powers itself off, and said second control unit stores the predetermined information that should be displayed on said second display unit, which it received from said first control unit, in a storage unit, and said second control unit, in response to an instruction to said display apparatus to enter the power-on state from the standby state, outputs a power-on request to said first control unit, reads out the predetermined information that should be displayed on said second display unit from said storage unit, and causes the predetermined information to be displayed on said second display unit, and wherein the predetermined information to be displayed on said second display unit is at least one of information regarding a source of the video image being displayed on said first display unit when the instruction to enter the standby state is received and information regarding a volume level when the instruction to enter the standby state is received.