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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2003
Sung-sik Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sung-sik Kim, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A display apparatus and method for selectively displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image are provided. The display apparatus includes a flat panel display device which generates a two-dimensional image when two-dimensional image display is requested and generates viewpoint images having parallax when three-dimensional image display is requested; and a switching panel which is disposed in front of the flat panel display device to be separated from the flat panel display device by a predetermined distance and is controlled according to a type of image generated by the flat panel display device so that two-dimensional images and three-dimensional images can be displayed.