Patent ID: 8587512

Claim:
A display device comprising a voltage application device that performs processes with respect to a display medium comprising, a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being translucent, disposed facing each other and separated from each other, a plurality of types of particle groups disposed between the pair of substrates and moving according to an electric field formed between the substrates, the respective plurality of types of particle groups having the same polarity and a different color and migration properties, a first electrode disposed continuously at one or other of the pair of substrates, plural second electrodes disposed at the substrate opposite to the substrate where the first electrode is disposed, so as to respectively correspond to each pixel of an image subject to display, and a third electrode disposed between the pair of substrates and provided with apertures corresponding to each of the plurality of second electrodes whereby particle groups pass through along the facing direction of the pair of substrates, the voltage application device performing: a first process of application of voltages to the first electrode and the plurality of second electrodes of voltages such that a first particle group from the plurality of types of particle groups passes through the aperture in the third electrode, and a second particle group from the plural types of particle groups, with lower migration properties than those of the first particle group, does not pass through the aperture of the third electrode; and in succession after the first process, a second process of application of voltages to the display medium to the first electrode, the plurality of second electrodes, and the third electrode such that the first particle group that has passed through the aperture in the third electrode due to the first process moves towards a downstream substrate of the pair of substrates disposed on the downstream side in the passing direction of the first particle group through the aperture, and the second particle group that has not passed through the aperture of the third electrode due to the first process moves towards the substrate on the side facing the downstream substrate, wherein the voltage application device, when moving the particle groups from the substrate on the side provided with the first electrode towards the substrate on the side provided with the plurality of second electrodes, applies a voltage to the third electrode in the first process of the same polarity and the same voltage value as the voltage applied to the first electrode.