To obtain a display picture similar to a picture at the time of projection by removing a field duplicated in conversion so as to generate a video signal with a specific successive scanning to drive a display panel.

When an inputted video signal is a telecine-converted picture using a 2-3 pull down system, a successively scanned video signal supplied through a switch 6 in response to a memory control signal from a control means 8 is alternately written in frame memories 4 and 5 by thinning a field of the same picture patterns and is alternately read out in 24 Hz by a reading control means 9. When the inputted video signal is a telecine-converted picture, an address driver 10 drives a display panel 12 to a display together with a sustain driver 11 by a frame rate of 24 Hz in response to a driving control signal supplied from a control signal 3. When the inputted video signal is a general picture, the driver 10 drives the display panel 12 to display together with the sustain driver 11 by a frame rate of 60 Hz in response to a driving control signal supplied from a control means 8.