Patent ID: 7495710

Claim:
A display apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal, the display apparatus comprising: a video processor that processes the received broadcasting signal into (R, G, B) signals, the processed (R, G, B) signals including a luminance signal having a level based on the received broadcast signal; a gain adjustment device that adjusts respectively gain values of the processed (R, G, B) signals according to a corrected luminance signal; a display that displays the (R, G, B) signals, the gain of which has been adjusted; a skin color determination device that determines skin color presence in the processed (R, G, B) signals by obtaining a ratio of the processed (R, G, B) signals; a luminance signal level calculation device that calculates a luminance signal level based on the processed (R, G, B) signals; and a correction device that performs skin color correction by increasing the luminance signal level of the processed (R, G, B) signals, when skin color presence is determined and the calculated luminance signal level is less than a critical value, and that outputs the corrected luminance signal to the gain adjustment device.