Patent ID: 7796332

Claim:
A device that displays flat images producing binocular parallax and performs stereoscopic displaying, the device comprising: a display unit that, based on input image data, displays a plurality of flat images that are components of a stereoscopic image, and a light control unit that adjusts an amount of light transmitted from the display unit and is disposed between the display unit and a user viewing the display unit, wherein the light control unit has an opaque base body, a plurality of sections that are formed on the base body, have a planar dimension, transmit an amount of light, and are visible domains of the flat images, and an adjusting unit that adjusts the amount of light transmitted by adjusting all the sections equally, and the device displays the stereoscopic image by switching, at a frequency of at least 15 Hz, a stereoscopic component at a particular time and a planar component at a different particular time, wherein for the stereoscopic component the amount of light transmitted by the sections is adjusted to a first amount and for the planar component the amount of light transmitted by the sections is adjusted to a second amount larger than the first amount.