Display device and video viewing system

A display device, comprising:

• a liquid crystal panel which has a display surface including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, and which displays frame images on the display surface by switching the frame images over time;
• a generation portion which generates a first image signal and a second image signal on a basis of a frame image signal for displaying the frame images, the first image signal rendering an image of a lower resolution than the frame image signal and including data that is to be written to all the pixels of the display surface, the second image signal including data that is to be written to a part of the pixels among the pixels of the display surface and not including data that is to be written to remaining pixels other than the part of the pixels;
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• a liquid crystal driver which executes, after executing a first scanning operation in which scanning across the display surface on a basis of the first image signal is executed, at least once a second scanning operation in which scanning the part of the pixels across the display surface and holding data that has been written to the remaining pixels on a basis of the second image signal is executed, to drive the liquid crystal panel, and which executes, after executing the second scanning operation, a third scanning operation in which scanning across the display surface on a basis of the frame image signal is executed,
• wherein:
• the plurality of pixels included in the display surface are divided into a plurality of pixel groups each including at least four pixels arranged adjacently in the sub-scanning direction,
• the generation portion generates, as the first image signal, a signal which includes write data for configuring, for each of the pixel groups, an equivalent brightness common to the at least four pixels included in the pixel group as a first driving brightness,
• the liquid crystal driver which executes the first scanning operation simultaneously drives, for each of the pixel groups, each of the at least four pixels included in the pixel group toward the first driving brightness,
• each of the plurality of the pixel groups is further divided into a plurality of subgroups, each of which includes at least two pixels,
• the generation portion generates, as the second image signal, a signal which includes write data for configuring, as a second driving brightness, an equivalent brightness common to the at least two pixels included in a driving subgroup which is a part of the subgroup included in the pixel group, and does not include data that is written to pixels included in a subgroup other than the driving subgroup,
• the liquid crystal driver which executes the second scanning operation simultaneously drives, for each of the driving subgroups, the at least two pixels which are included in the driving subgroup toward the second driving brightness,
• the generation portion configures, as the first driving brightness, the equivalent brightness on a basis of an average brightness obtained by averaging a target brightness defined by the frame image signal, for each of the at least two pixels included in a specific subgroup which is a subgroup selected from the plurality of subgroups included in the pixel group, and
• the generation portion configures the first driving brightness for at least one subgroup other than the specific subgroup selected at a time of configuring the first driving brightness to be the driving subgroup, and configures, as the second driving brightness, the equivalent brightness on a basis of an average brightness obtained by averaging the target brightness defined by the frame image signal, for each of the at least two pixel pixels included in the driving subgroup.