Patent ID: 8554279

Claim:
A light-emitting element driving circuit comprising: a boosting circuit unit configured to supply a boosting voltage to one terminal of a light-emitting element in response to a comparison result obtained by the boosting circuit unit comparing a voltage applied to the other terminal of the light-emitting element with a predetermined reference voltage value; a driving circuit unit connected to the other terminal of the light-emitting element and configured to supply drive current to the light-emitting element; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a PWM signal, which is generated based on the content of a video signal and can be used to change the luminance of the light-emitting element; and a time-averaging circuit unit configured to output a time-averaged signal of the acquired PWM signal as a control signal to be supplied to the driving circuit unit, wherein the other terminal of the light-emitting element is a cathode electrode, and wherein the drive current supplied from the driving circuit unit to the light-emitting element has a current value obtained by subtracting a current value derived from the time-averaged signal from a predetermined reference current value; the light-emitting element driving circuit further comprising: a semiconductor chip; and a resistor element disposed on the semiconductor chip as an external circuit element, wherein the resistor element has a resistance value that can be used to set the current value derived from the time-averaged signal.