Patent ID: 7259735

Claim:
An electro-optical device, comprising: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of pixels located at intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines; a scanning-line driving circuit that outputs a scanning signal to the scanning lines so as to select the scanning line corresponding to a pixel to which data is written; and a data-line driving circuit that cooperates with the scanning-line driving circuit and that outputs data to the data line corresponding to the pixel to which data is written, each of the pixels including: an electro-optical element that emits light with a brightness corresponding to a driving current; a storage device that stores the data supplied via the data line; a drive element that sets the driving current, which is supplied to the electro-optical element, according to the data stored in the storage device; and a control element that repeatedly switches supply of the driving current from the drive element on and off for a period after the scanning line corresponding to the pixel to which data, is written is selected until a next time this scanning line is selected.