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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihisa Furumoto, Machida, JP;
Takeshi Ikeda, Ebina, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display apparatus according to the present invention, comprises: a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light sources, the emission brightness of which can be individually changed; a display unit configured to display an image on a screen by modulating light from the light-emitting unit; and a control unit configured to control the emission brightness of each of the light sources according to a brightness of an image to be displayed in a region on the screen corresponding to each of the plurality of light sources, wherein when a graphic image is superimposed on an original image and is displayed, the control unit changes the emission brightness of each of the light sources according to a type of the graphic image.