Patent ID: 8773518

Claim:
An image display apparatus that has a display panel and displays a stereoscopic image by means of repeating displaying images for a left eye and for a right eye alternately on the display panel, the display panel comprising a plurality of display lines, each of which comprise a plurality of organic EL elements, the display panel further comprising write lines and light emission control lines, the write lines and the light emission control lines being provided per the plurality of display lines, and the display panel showing the displayed images for the left eye and for the right eye through an eyewear which can shield views of the left and right eyes alternately, while a timing to switch a shielding state of the eyewear is controlled by a shield timing controlling section, the image display apparatus comprising: a write-scanning section that sequentially writes display data of the images in the plurality of display lines in accordance with the timing to switch the shielding state of the eyewear, by driving the write line; a light emitting section that allows the plurality of display lines to continue light emission, based on the written display data; and a light emission timing controlling section that controls, by driving the light emission control line, timings to start continuous light emission of the respective display lines without allowing the display lines to continue light emission in the period in which the shielding state of the eyewear is switched, wherein timings to drive the respective light emission control lines can be controlled independently from timings of writing the display data of the images in the respective display lines, and a time required for starting of continuous light emission from all of the plurality of display lines after at least one of the plurality of display lines starts continuous light emission is shorter than a time required for write-scanning of the display data in the plurality of display lines.