Patent ID: 8314755

Claim:
A method of controlling an image display device having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixel circuits including: a current-driven type light-emitting element; a driver transistor for supplying an electric current to the current-driven type light-emitting element; a holding capacitor for holding a voltage that determines an amount of the electric current supplied from the driver transistor; and a writing switch for writing a voltage corresponding to an image signal into the holding capacitor during a writing period, wherein the transistor formed in each of the pixel circuits is an N-channel transistor, each of the pixel circuits further comprises an enable switch disposed in a current path supplying the electric current to the current-driven type light-emitting element and a supplementary capacitor, wherein the method comprises: receiving power from a power line, wherein the supplementary capacitor is connected between the drain of the driver transistor and the power line, for controlling changes in voltage of a terminal of the holding capacitor at one end opposite another terminal connected with the writing switch during the writing period; turning off the enable switch; and causing the holding capacitor to hold the voltage that determines the amount of the electric current supplied from the driver transistor by turning on the writing switch while the writing switch is on and the enable switch is off.