Display device, drive device, and drive method

A drive device that drives a display panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines disposed to intersect with the plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of pixels disposed for respective intersections of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, the drive device comprising:

• a gate line driver circuit that supplies gate signals to the plurality of gate lines;
• a data line driver circuit that supplies data signals to the plurality of data lines;
• and
• a controller that controls the gate signal and the data signals by using an interlaced driving method in which one frame is constituted of a plurality of fields,
• wherein the controller causes polarities of data signals applied to pixels that are to be selected in one field to be reversed every prescribed number of such pixels in a direction along the gate lines and to be reversed every prescribed number of such pixels in a direction along the data lines, respectively, and
• wherein, in said one field, the controller causes the polarity of data signal applied to each pixel to be selected to be opposite to the polarity of the data signal that was last applied to the pixel.