Patent ID: 8159527

Claim:
A display unit displaying pictures of at least one picture signal on a plurality of displays arranged at different distances from a user, the display unit comprising: classifying means for classifying the images based on depth value of the pictures, wherein depth values are calculated based on (i) values of extracted motion characteristics and (ii) depth-defining tables; and display means for choosing a plurality of the displays based on the classification of the picture signals according to their depth values and displaying the pictures in the form of moving pictures on the chosen displays, wherein, a first table defines a relationship between an area of an object and a depth of the object, and wherein, if an area of an object is found, the depth is calculated by referring to the at least one table defining the relationship between the area of an object and the depth of the object, wherein a second table defines the depth of the object when determined that a picture is a bust shot or a close-up and is referred to, to determine the depth of a particular picture, and wherein a third table defines the relation between a coefficient of correlation among color histograms and a depth, and is referred to when the coefficient of correlation is calculated, and determines the depth of the object.