The present invention provides an edge enhancing apparatus (20) including a filter (51) to extract a horizontal high-frequency component of a video signal, a rise/fall detection detector (52) to detect leading and trailing edges of the horizontal high-frequency component of the video signal, and a waveform balancer (53) to multiply the high frequency component extracted by the filter (51) by a gain to generate an enhancement signal for enhancing the original video signal. The waveform balancer (53) works to make the gain a value larger than “1” when the signal level of the high frequency component at the leading edge of the video signal is positive while making the gain a value of “1” or smaller than “1” when the signal level of the high frequency component at the leading edge of the video signal is negative, and make the gain a value of “1” or smaller than “1” when the signal level of the high frequency component at the trailing edge of the video signal is positive while making the gain a value larger than “1” when the signal level of the high frequency component at the trailing edge of the video signal is negative.