Patent ID: 8497885

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a row direction and in a column direction; a plurality of drive circuits provided for driving the light emitting elements; a plurality of scanning lines extending in the row direction, to which a scanning signal is applied to select the drive circuits on a row basis; a plurality of control lines extending in the row direction, to which a light-emission control signal is applied to determine an emission period of the light emitting elements; and a plurality of data lines extending in the column direction, to which image signals are applied to define brightness of the light emitting elements on a column basis, the scanning signal being sequentially applied to the scanning lines in a field so that the image signals of the data lines are programmed in the drive circuits, the light-emission control signal being sequentially applied to the control lines to make the light emitting elements emit light with brightness corresponding to the image signal programmed to the drive circuit, wherein an impulse operation constituted by a high level and a low level of the light-emission control signal, which corresponds to on and off of the light emission element, respectively, is repeated at least twice in different temporal patterns in a period from programming of the image signal necessary for display of one image to inputting of the next image signal.