Patent ID: 8884865

Claim:
A scanning line driving circuit, comprising: a first transistor having a source electrode connected to a power supply and a drain electrode connected to a scanning line; and a second transistor having a source electrode connected to the scanning line and a drain electrode connected to a clock signal line and having a conductivity type identical to that of the first transistor, wherein a bias can be supplied so that the first and second transistors are simultaneously caused to be in an off-state; the circuit further comprising: a diode having a first end connected directly to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a second end supplied with a driving signal of the first transistor; and a voltage control switch circuit having one end connected directly to the gate electrode of the first transistor, a control terminal connected directly to the second end of the diode, and an other end of the voltage control switch circuit connected directly to an external control signal line used for causing the scanning line in a floating state, wherein, when the first transistor is a P-type transistor, one of the first and second ends of the diode is a cathode and an other of the first and second ends is an anode, and when the first transistor is an N-type transistor, the one of the first and second ends of the diode is an anode and the other of the first and second ends is a cathode, wherein the voltage control switch circuit comprises a transistor of a conductivity type identical to that of the first transistor, and wherein the gate electrode of the first transistor, a gate electrode of the second transistor, and the clock signal line are supplied with signals necessary for a shift operation to function as a shift resistor.