Patent ID: 7242376

Claim:
A display device to which a video signal is supplied as a signal current, comprising: a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed in a matrix; data lines laid for every column of the matrix array of said pixel circuits and supplied with a signal current in accordance with luminance information; and a horizontal selector having a plurality of sample and hold circuits provided corresponding to said data lines and sampling and holding the input video signal current and for sequentially operating the sample and hold circuits, point sequentially sampling and holding video signals at all sample and hold circuits, and outputting current values sampled and held in said plurality of sample and hold circuits to corresponding data lines, wherein each sample and hold circuit comprises: a field effect transistor having a source connected to a predetermined potential, a first switch connected between a drain and a gate of said field effect transistor, a second switch connected between the drain of said field effect transistor and a supply line of said signal current, a capacitor connected between the gate of said field effect transistor and a predetermined potential, and a leakage elimination circuit for supplying a current corresponding to the sampled signal current to the drain of said field effect transistor during a period when the sample and hold operation is finished and another sample and hold circuit performs a sample and hold operation.