Patent ID: 8531614

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display panel in which one pixel is composed of four sub pixels for four colors of red, green, blue, and yellow; and a display control portion that produces display data based on an input video image signal for each of the sub pixels, the display control portion causing the display panel to display the display data thereon, wherein on the display panel, the high-brightness sub pixels for green and yellow that are top two highest-brightness sub pixels and the other sub pixels for red and blue are alternately disposed in order of red, green, blue, and yellow, areas of the top two highest-brightness sub pixels are equal to each other, areas of the other two sub pixels are equal to each other, a ratio of the area of each of the top two highest-brightness sub pixels to the area of each of the other two sub pixels is 1.0:1.6, and the display control portion executes sampling for the input video image signal corresponding to positions of the sub pixels regarding each of the sub pixels as one pixel, and executes sub-pixel sampling to produce the display data for each of the sub pixels.