Patent ID: 8743155

Claim:
A display device comprising a display section, a driver and signal lines connecting the display section and the driver, the display section including a plurality of pixels formed in a matrix where each of the pixels includes a self light-emitting element, the driver including: a data generation circuit for generating tone data of the respective pixels from display data supplied from an external device; a D/A converter coupled to the signal lines and coupled to receive the tone data from the data generation circuit, said D/A converter being configured to convert the tone data generated by the data generation circuit to an analog voltage and outputting the analog voltage to the signal lines; a switch circuit for switching a direction of signal flow along the signal lines; a detection circuit for detecting a signal of respective pixels obtained from the display section through the switch circuit; and a correction value calculation circuit for generating a correction value based on the signal of respective pixels detected by the detection circuit, wherein the driver further comprises an output correction circuit coupled to the D/A converter for setting an output range of the analog voltage to be output from the D/A converter in accordance with the correction value generated by the correction value calculation circuit, wherein the data generation circuit comprises a gamma correction circuit for performing, when generating the tone data from the display data to be provided to the D/A converter, a gamma correction and a display luminance correction based on the correction value, wherein the output correction circuit and the gamma correction circuit are separately connected to the D/A converter so that the output correction circuit sets the output range to be output from to D/A converter in accordance with the correction value, separately from the gamma correction performed by the gamma correction unit.