A display device having a prolonged lifetime by preventing deterioration
of image quality by reducing a burn-in is provided. A display device
includes a still image region detecting unit for detecting still image
data from video data, a detecting unit for detecting, as an edge portion,
a pair of pixels having a level difference of image data larger than a
set level difference, of a plurality of pair of adjacent pixels for the
still image data, and a level adjusting unit for adjusting a level of the
image data of a group of pixels including the edge portion and arranged
consecutively and outputting the image data after the adjustment to a
driving unit. The level adjusting unit adds/subtracts a random noise
to/from the image data of the group of pixels.