Patent ID: 7123246

Claim:
A display device comprising: a capacitive display element which displays an image; a display control section which refreshes an image displayed in the capacitive display element according to image data; an image data input section which inputs the image data to the display control section; a discrimination section which discriminates a type of the image data based on an input time interval of the image data from the image data input section to the display control section; a refresh rate control section which changes an image refresh rate of the image in the capacitive display element, according to a result of discrimination by the discrimination section; an output section which outputs an image signal for refreshing the images displayed in the capacitive display element at certain intervals; an output control section which transfers the image signal outputted from the output section to the capacitive display element while thinning out part of the image signal; and a control data generation section which generates control data which indicates integer values m and n of an integer ratio m/n which is a ratio between a number of thin-out of the image signal and a number of transfers of the image signal, in the output control section, based on a result of discrimination by the discrimination section, wherein: the refresh rate control section comprising a timing instructing section which instructs a transfer timing of the image signal to the output control section ( 9 ) according to the control data.