Patent ID: 7880702

Claim:
A picture display apparatus to display a picture on a display section based on a picture signal, comprising: an input determining section to determine whether the picture signal is input; a display determining section to determine, based on whether sight/hearing restricting information is added to the picture signal, whether the picture based on the picture signal can be displayed, when the input determining section determines that the picture signal is input; a scramble determining section to determine whether the picture signal is scrambled, when the input determining section determines that the picture signal is input; and a display control section to lower a brightness of a backlight of the display section and to display a predetermined display with hollow characters indicating that the picture cannot be displayed when the input determining section determines that the picture signal is not input, when the display determining section determines that the picture based on the picture signal cannot be displayed, and when the scramble determining section determines that the picture signal is scrambled.