A display device is provided which is capable of, at time of driving a display panel section, preventing noise caused by components exhibiting a piezoelectric effect and of achieving silent operations and removal of unpleasant audible noise. A soft receiver, which can be a tubular elastic body, is connected on the upper joint for receiving the closed umbrella. An image processing method judges from a shape of the formed histogram whether the original image is an image picture, and does not perform not perform the image correction process for the original image if it is judged that the original image is not an image picture.