Display device

A display device for displaying a color image by separating a frame consisting of a plurality of fields into the individual fields and displaying an image in a different color for each field, the device comprising:

• a display panel including a plurality of pixel circuits capable of display in a transparent display mode, the pixel circuits being arranged in a matrix;
• a driver circuit configured to drive the pixel circuits;
• an image timing control portion configured to control a time to output a plurality of pieces of color image data included in input image data in an RGB format to the driver circuit, each piece of the color image data representing an image in a different color;
• a signal source configured to convert externally provided input image data to YUV image data in YUV422 format and, when transparency information by which the display panel is caused to be transparent, is inputted as well, generate transparency YUV image data by adding the transparency information to information about color-difference components in the YUV image data;
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• a signal processing portion configured to, when the transparency information is added, extract the transparency information from the transparency YUV image data and convert the YUV image data remaining after the extraction of the transparency information to RGB image data in the RGB format, or when the transparency information is not added, convert the YUV image data to image data in the RGB format and output both the transparency information and the RGB image data, or only the RGB image data, to the image timing control portion on a field by field basis, wherein,
• the image timing control portion, when provided with the transparency information and the RGB image data, causes the display panel to be transparent so as to transmit background light, on the basis of the transparency information, or when provided with only the RGB image data, displays an image.