Patent ID: 7746365

Claim:
An image display device, comprising: a display unit having a display screen in a rectangular shape which displays an image; a frame arranged along a periphery of said display screen; a plurality of detectors mounted on said frame, each of which generates a detection signal in response to a distance to an object positioned outside of said frame; and a controller which controls said image displayed on said display screen based on detection signals generated from respective detectors from among said plurality of detectors, wherein said plurality of detectors comprises three detectors mounted at a location on said frame close to each of three sides among four sides of said display screen, and wherein said controller monitors said detection signals generated from respective detectors from among said plurality of detectors, detects a side, to which any one of said three detectors does not correspond, from among said four sides as a side to which a user is close when all of said detection signals indicate distances equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, under a situation in which said side, to which the user is close, is detected from among said four sides based on a detection signal that indicates a shortest distance among said detection signals, and controls a direction of said image such that a bottom of said image is moved to the detected side.