The phrase "shown in the background" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is visible in the background of a scene, picture, or video. For example, "The painting showed a woman holding a baby, with a mountain range shown in the background."
Bathymetry is shown in the background.
Throughout, silhouettes of high-powered weapons are shown in the background.
They are standing on clouds with the earth, moon, and stars shown in the background.
The small nets shown in the background here connect to a rail similar to the one seen in the foreground.
Sometimes the promise of downtown LA is shown in the background, visible but not quite attainable to those trapped in a life of vice and poverty.
On "Top Chef," the Teleflora bouquets will be shown in the background, and a graphic will appear on the screen to alert viewers to the product, said Thomas Mooney, chief marketing officer for Teleflora.
A silent and largely motionless Tarrant appeared on a large screen in the courtroom, a small cell showing in the background.
Major General Made Mangku Pastika, the Bali police chief, released gruesome pictures of the three bombers' severed heads to corroborate his claim about suicide attackers and also released a holidaymaker's video which shows, in the background, a young, unassuming, Indonesian man wearing a black and grey knapsack walking into the Raja restaurant in Kuta and then being at the centre of an explosion.
One day the NYSE will completely digitalize its operations as well, and its imposing Wall Street headquarters building will be reduced to a symbol, something the TV news shows can show in the background when delivering market reports.
Parents were talking to one another as their children played a short distance away, and "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" was showing in the background.
No therapeutic effects related to disease onset or survival, or improvements in anatomical or biochemical measures of neuroprotection were shown in the C57BL6/J background mice.
