Patent ID: 8773415

Claim:
A display device with an image pickup function comprising: a plurality of pixel signal lines each supplied with a pixel signal; a plurality of display pixels each performing a display operation based on the pixel signal; and a plurality of image pickup elements each including a photo-detector and a capacitor, the photo-detector generating a current of a magnitude corresponding to a photo-detection amount, the capacitor performing a discharging operation which follows a charging operation with the current from the photo-detector to output a charged voltage for a read operation, wherein a voltage level of the pixel signal line during the discharging operation is equal to a voltage level of the pixel signal line during the reading operation, wherein the plurality of display pixels are driven in a mode of horizontal-line sequential display, and the discharging operation, in a set of operations including the discharging operation, the charging operation and the reading operation, is performed during one of two horizontal blanking periods, and the reading operation, in the same set of operations, is performed during the other of the two horizontal blanking periods, each of the two horizontal blanking periods appearing prior to or subsequent to a display operation period which continues over one or a plurality of horizontal lines of the display pixels, the display device further comprising a plurality of first switching elements which, in the display operation period, demultiplexes a time-divisionally multiplexed signal generated by time-division multiplexing of the pixel signals into the individual pixel signals, and supplies the individual pixel signals to the respective pixel signal lines, wherein the time-divisionally multiplexed signal includes a period of a predetermined-level voltage in a timing position which is synchronized with the horizontal blanking period, and the predetermined-level voltage is applied, in common, to all the plurality of pixel signal lines through turning on all the first switching elements, just in the horizontal blanking period.