Patent ID: 7916217

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a broadcast wave receiving unit that receives a broadcast wave; and a reproducing unit that (a) reproduces an image from a storage medium if a display mode of the image processing apparatus is a first display mode, and (b) stops the reproduction of the image from the storage medium if the display mode of the image processing apparatus is changed from the first display mode to a second display mode, wherein the reproducing unit reproduces the image from the storage medium and the image processing apparatus displays the image reproduced from the storage medium and an image obtained from the broadcast wave on a display device if the display mode of the image processing apparatus is the first display mode, and wherein the reproducing unit stops the reproduction of the image from the storage medium and the image processing apparatus displays the image obtained from the broadcast wave on the display device but does not display the image reproduced from the storage medium on the display device if the display mode of the image processing apparatus is changed from the first display mode to the second display mode.