Patent ID: 8094099

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a display section including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix and a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scanning lines; and a horizontal driving circuit and a vertical driving circuit configured to drive said signal lines and said scanning lines of said display section to display an image on said display section; each of said pixels including a light emitting device, a signal level storage capacitor, a writing transistor having a gate to which a wiring signal outputted from said vertical driving circuit is inputted to turn on said writing transistor to set a terminal voltage of said signal level storage capacitor to a signal level of a corresponding one of said signal lines, and a driving transistor having a gate and a source connected to the opposite terminals of said signal level storage capacitor to drive said light emitting device in response to the voltage across said signal level storage capacitor thereby to cause said light emitting device to emit light; said horizontal driving circuit and said vertical driving circuit being operable, within a first period of a no-light emitting period of each of said pixels within which the emission of light of said light emitting device is stopped, to turn on said writing transistor of the pixel to set a voltage at a first one of the terminals of said signal level storage capacitor to a halftone voltage corresponding to a halftone of said light emitting device through the signal line and turn on said driving transistor to charge a second one of the terminals of said signal level storage capacitor from said driving transistor, and within a second period of the no-light emitting period following the first period, to set the potential at the first terminal of said signal level storage capacitor to a fixed voltage, with which said driving transistor is turned off, through the signal line to hold the potential at the second terminal of said signal level storage capacitor to the potential set within the first period, and then within a third period of the no-light emitting period following the second period, to set the potential at the first terminal of said signal level storage capacitor to a gradation voltage corresponding to a gradation with which the light emitting device emits light and turn on said driving transistor to charge the second terminal of said signal level storage capacitor from said driving transistor and then turn off said writing transistor.