Patent ID: 7545349

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display panel including: a plurality of scan lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix so as to correspond to intersections of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines; and a plurality of light-emitting elements provided in each of the plurality of pixels, the light-emitting elements including first light-emitting elements that have a deterioration characteristic that depends greatly on temperature and second light-emitting elements that have a deterioration characteristic that depends relatively little on temperature; a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the display panel; and a display aspect changing unit that changes a display aspect of the display panel so as to decrease the luminance of the first light-emitting elements when the temperature of the display panel detected by the temperature detecting unit becomes larger than a predetermined threshold value, the display aspect changing unit having a luminance adjusting unit that, when the temperature of the display panel becomes larger than the predetermined threshold value, changes a luminance ratio of the first and second light-emitting elements so as to decrease the luminance of the first light-emitting elements while collectively maintaining overall luminance of the first and second light-emitting elements.