Patent ID: 8005320

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display portion that includes a displayable region in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is PH and the number of effective vertical pixels is PV and that is capable of displaying an image resulting from image data or an image resulting from image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing; and a display controller that generates first image data for display when displaying an image having a first aspect ratio on the display portion, and that generates second image data for display when displaying an image having a second aspect ratio on the display portion; the display controller generates the first image data for display by processing said image data so that the image resulting from the image data or the image resulting from the image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing is displayable on a region being PH 1 horizontal pixels by PV 1 vertical pixels included in the displayable region of the display portion; the display controller generates the second image data for display by processing said image data so that the image resulting from the image data or the image resulting from the image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing is displayable on a region being PH 2 horizontal pixels by PV 2 vertical pixels included in the displayable region of the display portion; and the displayable region, the first image data for display, and the second image data for display satisfy the following relationships: PH2<PH1<PH, and PV1<PV2<PV.