Patent ID: 7725009

Claim:
A video reproduction apparatus driven by a battery, comprising: a digital versatile disk reproduction device reproducing a video signal of a video program recorded on a disk; a liquid crystal display device displaying a video image of said video program in accordance with said video signal reproduced by said digital versatile disk reproduction device; first detection means for detecting a remaining time of said video program with said video signal being reproduced by said digital versatile disk reproduction device; second detection means for detecting said battery's availability; calculation means using said video program's remaining time detected by said first detection means and said battery's availability detected by said second detection means for calculating power available before reproducing said video program ends; a memory having stored therein one of a table and a mathematical expression representing a relationship between said liquid crystal display device's screen brightness and power consumption; and means for setting said liquid crystal display device's screen brightness as based on a calculation performed thereby of a brightness corresponding to power calculated by said calculation means using one of said table and mathematical expression stored in said memory, wherein said first detection means determines whether information from said digital versatile disk reproduction device is a sequential PGC title when a brightness adjustment button is pressed, and if said information is said sequential PGC title said first detection means detects based on said information said remaining time of said video program being reproduced, and if said information is not said sequential PGC title said first detection means ends adjusting brightness.