Patent ID: 8681256

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: first display means, disposed in front of one eye of a user, for displaying an image in a first screen area and for causing an entire first screen area to be in a through-state; second display means, disposed in front of the other eye of the user and different from the first display means, for causing an entire second screen area to be in the through-state, the through-state corresponding to a transparent or semi-transparent state of the first screen area and the second screen area, and a state in which a non-imaged scene is seen by the eyes of the user; image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of a scene different from the scene which the user sees through the first or second display means, when the first or second display means is caused to be in the through-state; and control means for controlling, based on external information, the second screen area of the second display means to be in the through-state and for controlling, based on the external information, the first display means to transition the first screen area from the through-state to a non-through-state and to execute displaying with the display image signal generated by the image signal generation means to display the image in the first screen area that is in the non-through-state, such that the image displayed in the first screen area that is in the non-through-state is presented to the one eye of the user and the second screen area that is in the through-state is presented to the other eye of the user.