Patent ID: 8519919

Claim:
A display device comprising a display portion formed by disposing pixels in a matrix, a horizontal drive circuit and a vertical drive circuit, signal lines and scanning lines of said display portion being driven by said horizontal drive circuit and said vertical drive circuit, for displaying a desired image on said display portion, wherein respective ones of said pixels includes: a light emitting device; a signal level holding capacitor; a writing transistor for receiving a write signal outputted from said vertical drive circuit at a gate of said writing transistor, and performing an ON/OFF operation by said write signal, for setting a voltage across terminals of said signal level holding capacitor at a signal level of a corresponding one of said signal lines; and a driving transistor for driving said light emitting device to emit light in accordance with the voltage across said terminals of said signal level holding capacitor, and said write signal is set for an ON operation of said writing transistor throughout a first time period, said first time period starting at a beginning of a non-emission time period of said light emitting device and ending prior to a beginning of a plurality of correction periods occurring in said non-emission time period of said light emitting device, a sum of said plurality of correction periods being shorter than said first time period, each of said plurality of correction periods contributing to a correction for a threshold voltage of said driving transistor.