Patent ID: 7965270

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display panel having a plurality of display elements which are arranged in a matrix form, a drain driver adapted to supply gradation voltages corresponding to image data to the display elements, a gate driver adapted to scan lines of the display elements for supplying the gradation voltage, and a data generating circuit adapted to divide, in a time direction, image data for one frame into a plurality of pieces of sub-field image data, wherein a total number of the plurality of pieces of the sub-field image data is smaller than a bit number of gradation levels of the image data, wherein: the display panel includes a display screen, the drain driver is placed on one side of the display panel, and the data generating circuit is adapted to convert a first piece of the sub-field image data among the plurality of pieces of the sub-field image data into bright gradation data which has a higher brightness than that of the image data which has been inputted, and to convert a last piece of the sub-field image data among the plurality of pieces of the sub-field image data into dark gradation data which has a lower brightness than the image data which has been inputted.