Patent ID: 8456413

Claim:
A display device comprising: a light source section having multiple light sources arranged in a plane to emit, through independent light emission of the light sources, light in a number of illumination colors including three primary colors of light, the illumination colors being other than an achromatic color; a display section configured to display an image in monochrome color by modulating the light emitted from the light source section; and a display control section configured to drive the light source section and the display section in a field sequential system in which the illumination colors of the light sources are switched for respective fields in one frame to perform color display, wherein a number of the fields in the one frame is same as the number of illumination colors; wherein the display control section includes determining means for determining a degree of white and a degree of complementary color of the light sources on a basis of an amount of lighting of each of the illumination colors of the light sources, the amount of lighting being determined in accordance with a signal of a color image to be displayed, setting means for setting white components and complementary-color components of a color determined by a mixing ratio of the illumination colors, on a basis of a result of the determination performed by the determining means, and allocating means for allocating the white components and the complementary-color components, set by the setting means, by equally dividing the white components and the complementary-color components, respectively, into a plurality of amounts and equally allocating and distributing the plurality of amounts, respectively, of the white components and the complementary-color components to a plurality of the fields in the one frame corresponding respectively to the illumination colors.