An apparatus and a method for converting multi-source input images are disclosed.
The apparatus includes an outside interface part including N outside interface
units and pre-processing the input image, a format converting part including N
format converters and converting formats and sizes of the pre-processed images
as required by a display device, a memory part interacting with each format converter
and storing each pre-processed image or format-converted image, a switching part
switching the format-converted images according to a display mode, a multiplexer
multiplexing the switched images and generating a corresponding display image,
and a display processor processing the display image for the display device. Therefore,
various input images can be properly converted to have desired formats and sizes
based on a display mode of a display device so that the converted multi-images
can be adequately displayed on a display device.