Patent ID: 8558253

Claim:
An organic electroluminescent display device comprising: organic electroluminescent elements provided for respective pixels, at least one of the organic electroluminescent elements having first and second electrodes between which an organic layer is provided and having a region that contributes to light emission and a region that does not contribute to light emission, wherein a first capacitor is formed between the first and second electrodes in the region that does not contribute to light emission and, the first and second electrodes being configured such that the first capacitor is a capacitance element in a drive circuit for the organic electroluminescent element, wherein the drive circuit comprises: a write transistor that writes a signal voltage of a video signal to the corresponding pixel; a second capacitor that stores at least a portion of the signal voltage written by the write transistor; and a drive transistor that drives the organic electroluminescent element in accordance with the voltage stored by at least the second capacitor, and wherein a first terminal of the first capacitor is connected to the first electrode and a second terminal of the first capacitor is connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor.