Patent ID: 7864139

Claim:
An organic electroluminescent device, comprising: a plurality of pixels comprising: a red light emitting element to emit red light; a green light emitting element to emit green light; a blue light emitting element to emit blue light; a drive element driving each of the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element, and the blue light emitting element based on a signal from a plurality of write scan lines and a signal from a plurality of data lines; and a capacitor storing a characteristic of the drive element; a drive device adjusting a luminance ratio among the red light, the green light, and the blue light by adjusting light emitting time of each of the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element, and the blue light emitting element; a first control line directly connected to a first transistor that controls whether the characteristic of the drive element is stored in the capacitor, the first control line being provided parallel to the plurality of write scan lines; a second control line directly connected to a second transistor that controls whether each of the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element, and the blue light emitting element is driven or not by using the drive element having a characteristic compensated based on a content stored in the capacitor, the second control line being provided parallel to the plurality of write scan lines, a drain of the first transistor being directly connected to the source of the second transistor and the drain of the second transistor being directly connected to a corresponding one of the red light emitting element, the green light emitting element, and the blue light emitting element; and a first electrode of the capacitor being directly connected to a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a second electrode of an additional capacitor, and a second electrode of the capacitor, the second electrode of capacitor being directly connected to a gate electrode of a fifth transistor.