Patent ID: 8665323

Claim:
A stereoscopic display apparatus including: an image display unit which sequentially displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image; and a pair of glasses which makes the right-eye image and the left-eye image viewable sequentially, the stereoscopic display apparatus comprising: a plurality of organic electroluminescence (EL) devices comprising a display unit of the image display unit; a power supply line for supplying current to each of the organic EL devices; a switching device provided on the power supply line and capable of reducing a voltage between electrodes in the organic EL device; a first control unit configured to generate a glasses control signal for setting, in the glasses, a non-viewable period in which both the right-eye image and the left-eye image are made non-viewable at the same time; and a second control unit configured to generate a device control signal for setting, in the switching device, a voltage reduced period in which the voltage between the electrodes in the organic EL device is reduced, wherein the first control unit and the second control unit control the glasses and the switching device by generating the glasses control signal and the device control signal, respectively, for setting the non-viewable period to be a period at least from a start to an end of the voltage reduced period, and the second control unit is configured to generate the device control signal for setting the voltage reduced period based on a period from a time at which the switching device is turned off to a time at which the switching device is turned on and at least one of (i) a delay period from a time at which the switching device is turned off to a time at which the voltage between the electrodes in the organic EL device is reduced and (ii) a delay period from a time at which the switching device is turned on to a time at which the voltage between the electrodes in the organic EL device is restored to the voltage before the reduction, the non-viewable period being longer than a length of the voltage reduced period.