Patent ID: 8098241

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a display section having a photo-emission element and a pixel circuit for each pixel, the photo-emission element having an anode and a cathode, the pixel circuit having a first transistor, a second transistor and a holding capacitor; and a drive section driving the pixel circuit based on a image signal, the drive section having a first drive section, a second drive section, a third drive section, a control section, a first wiring, a second wiring, a third wiring, and a fourth wiring set to a reference voltage, wherein a gate of the first transistor is connected to the first drive section via the first wiring, a drain or source of the first transistor is connected to the third drive section via the third wiring, one of the drain and source, unconnected to the third drive section, of the first transistor is connected to a gate of the second transistor and to one end of the holding capacitor, a drain or source of the second transistor is connected to the second drive section via the second wiring, one of the drain and source, unconnected to the second drive section, of the second transistor is connected to other end of the holding capacitor and to the anode of the photo-emission element, the cathode of the photo-emission element is connected to the fourth wiring, the first drive section selectively outputs, to the first wiring, a first voltage lower than an ON-voltage of the first transistor, or a second voltage equal to or higher than the ON-voltage of the first transistor, the second drive section selectively outputs, to the second wiring, a third voltage lower than sum of a threshold voltage of the photo-emission element and the reference voltage, or a fourth voltage equal to or higher than the sum of the threshold voltage of the photo-emission element and the reference voltage, the third drive section selectively outputs, to the third wiring, a fifth voltage having a fixed level independent from the image signal, or a sixth voltage having a level based on the image signal, and the control section outputs a control signal to the first drive section, the control signal instructing the first drive section to establish ON-period of the first transistor within a period in which voltage of the second wiring is maintained to the third voltage to set the photo-emission element into an extinction state and voltage of the third wiring is maintained to the fifth voltage, the ON-period of the first transistor being defined as a period from a timing at which voltage of the first wiring rises from the first voltage to the second voltage to another timing at which the voltage of the first wiring falls from the second voltage to the first voltage.