Patent ID: 8274499

Claim:
A method for driving a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element that emits light whose amount corresponds to a driving current, a driver transistor that supplies the driving current to the light-emitting element, a first transistor provided between a gate of the driver transistor and a drain of the driver transistor, a second transistor provided between the drain of the driver transistor and a node used to supply an initialization potential, the initialization potential being a non-zero potential, and a capacitive element one terminal of which is connected to the gate of the driver transistor, the method comprising: supplying a fixed potential to the other terminal of the capacitive element and supplying a predetermined potential allowing the second transistor to be operated in a saturation region thereof to a gate of the second transistor in an initialization period in which the first transistor is turned on; and supplying a potential corresponding to a gradation to be displayed to the other terminal of the capacitive element in a writing period after the initialization period is finished.