Patent ID: 9349335
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A display device comprising: a display including a screen and a plurality of image generators; a drive circuit that drives the display; and a control circuit that controls the drive circuit, wherein, the control circuit includes a refresh rate control circuit that controls a refresh rate determined in accordance with a proportion of a refresh period for refreshing the screen and a no-refresh period for pausing the refreshing of the screen, when the control circuit controls the drive circuit in accordance with a refresh rate at which the no-refresh period has a duration greater than or equal to the refresh period and when the screen starts displaying a video in a video display period, the control circuit sets a duration of a first period of the video display period to be less than or equal to a duration of a second period of the video display period, and the first period of the video display period lasts from the start of the refresh period to the start of another refresh period immediately following the refresh period, and the second period of the video display period is a period in which one of a plurality of frame images included in the video is displayable on the screen.