Patent ID: 8810505

Claim:
A display device which displays, on a display surface, an image of n frames per second, said display device comprising: a light source section which emits light toward an outside of the display device so that the image is displayed on the display surface; and a light source control section which controls whether or not the light source section emits light, the light source control section carrying out control with respect to the light source section so that a light-emitting period in which the light source section emits light alternates with a non-light-emitting period in which the light source section does not emit light, in the light-emitting period, the light source control section controlling the light source section to sequentially irradiate a plurality of belt-shaped regions with the light in an order from an upper belt-shaped region to a lower belt-shaped region with an identical interval between timings at which respective adjacent ones of the plurality of belt-shaped regions are started to be irradiated with the light, wherein a sum of areas of belt-shaped regions that are simultaneously irradiated with the light is constant, the plurality of belt-shaped regions being regions into which a whole region of the display surface is divided, in the non-light emitting period, the light source control section controlling the light source section not to irradiate any one of the plurality of belt-shaped regions with light, the light-emitting period and the non-light-emitting period each being 1÷(m×n) second (m is an integer not less than 2) said display device further comprising: an instruction receiving section which receives from a user an instruction to set an image quality of the image displayed on the display surface; and a noise removing section which removes noise from an image signal for displaying an image on the display surface, only in a case where the instruction receiving section receives an instruction to set the image quality of the image at a designated image quality, the light source control section carrying out the control, and the noise removing section not removing noise from the image signal in a case where the instruction receiving section receives the instruction to set the image quality of the image at the designated image quality.