Patent ID: 7724271

Claim:
An apparatus for transforming a format of a multidimensional image, the apparatus comprising: a scaler receiving the multidimensional image and scaling up or down a resolution of the multi-dimensional image to conform to a resolution of a display device a formatter receiving property information about properties of the display device and transforming the format of the multi-dimensional image to conform to the properties of the display device; and a user interface receiving the property information from the display device and transmitting the property information to the formatter, wherein the scaler differentiates rates at which a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution of the multidimensional image are transformed and rates at which images of multiple dimensions are scaled, to transform the resolution of the multidimensional image, wherein the formatter comprises: a format transform unit which transforms the received multidimensional image into an image having a plurality of formats; a selection unit which selects a format processible by the display device from the plurality of formats; and a display interface unit which transforms an image having the selected format into an image signal acceptable by the display device and outputting the image signal.