Patent ID: 11935473
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A display device comprising:
a display portion including a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of emission control lines, and a plurality of pixel circuits incorporating respective light-emitting elements;
a scanning line driver circuit configured to drive the scanning lines;
a data line driver circuit configured to drive the data lines;
an emission control line driver circuit configured to drive the emission control lines; and
a display control circuit configured to output a control signal to the emission control line driver circuit, the control signal specifying an emission period included in a frame period, wherein,
the emission control line driver circuit adds sequential delays to the control signal and thereby generates signals to be applied to the emission control lines,
when leading and trailing frame periods have the same proportion of emission periods but include different numbers of emission periods, the leading and trailing frame periods are intervened by at least one transition frame period having a different proportion of emission periods from the leading frame period,
one of either the leading or trailing frame period is a normal frame period consisting solely of a scanning period, and the other is a compound frame period including a scanning period and a pause period, and
the scanning period of the compound frame period includes the same number of emission periods as the at least one transition frame period.