Patent ID: 7903053

Claim:
An active matrix display apparatus comprising: a pixel circuit portion wherein a plurality of pixel circuit columns each including a plurality of pixel circuits arranged along one column direction are arranged along a row direction crossing the column direction, and the pixel circuit portion includes a current-driven display device and a drive transistor for controlling a current supplied to the current-driven display device; first and second separate data lines arranged correspondingly to each of the pixel circuit columns; a plurality of scanning lines for supplying the pixel circuit portion with scanning signals for selecting the pixel circuits row by row wherein each row of pixel circuits comprises first and second scanning lines arranged correspondingly to each of the pixel circuit rows; a row scanning circuit for supplying the scanning signals to the plurality of scanning lines; and a current supply circuit arranged correspondingly to each of the pixel circuit columns, wherein the first data lines are connected to the pixel circuits only along odd rows selected by the scanning signals, among the pixel circuits included in the pixel circuit column, the second data lines are connected to the pixel circuits only along even rows selected by the scanning signals, among the pixel circuits included in the pixel circuit column, each current supply circuit, within a row current setting period corresponding to each row, simultaneously supplies one of the first and second data lines with an image data current by utilizing first and second programming signals corresponding to the first and second data lines, and supplies the other of the first and second data lines with a predetermined current by utilizing first and second control signals corresponding to the first and second data lines, when the row scanning circuit supplies the scanning signals to the scanning lines of an (n−1)-th row and an n-th row, with n being an even number, the current supply circuit supplies the first data line with the image data current to execute a programming of the pixel circuits of the (n−1)-th row based on the image data current, and supplies the second data line with the predetermined current to lower gate voltages of the drive transistors of the pixel circuits of the n-th row, and when the row scanning circuit supplies the scanning signals to the scanning lines of the n-th row and an (n+1)-th row, the current supply circuit supplies the first data line with the predetermined current to lower the gate voltages of the drive transistors of the pixel circuits of the (n+1)-th row, and supplies the second data line with the image data current to execute a programming of the pixel circuits of the n-th row based on the image data current.