Patent ID: 7176879

Claim:
A field-sequential type display device for performing a display by synchronizing successive switching of lights of a plurality of colors to be incident on an optical switching element from a light source with inputting of display data of each color corresponding to an image to be displayed into said optical switching element, comprising: a light introducing unit for making light of a corresponding color from said light source incident on said optical switching element in synchronism with a start timing of display data writing scanning on said optical switching element for each color; and an interrupting unit for interrupting the incidence of light of a corresponding color from said light source on said optical switching element in synchronism with an end timing of display data erasing scanning on said optical switching element for each color, wherein a predetermined time is provided between an interruption timing of incidence of light of one color in one frame on said optical switching element and a start timing of incidence of light of the next color in the one frame on said optical switching element.