Patent ID: 8922541

Claim:
A method of driving a display device, the display device including: pixel circuits arranged in a matrix; and a power source circuit, each of the pixel circuits including: a light-emitting element having a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode being connected to a second power source line; a drive transistor having one of a source electrode and a drain electrode connected to a first power source line, and the other of the source electrode and the drain electrode connected to the first electrode of the light-emitting element; a capacitive element connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, for holding a data voltage; and a switching transistor that switches between conduction and non-conduction between the capacitive element and a data line, the power source circuit outputting a voltage to the first power source line and the second power source line, and the method comprising: a step of simultaneously setting a voltage between both of the electrodes of the light-emitting element of each of the pixel circuits to be smaller than or equal to a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element, by adjusting a voltage outputted by the power source circuit to the first power source line or the second power source line; a resetting step of simultaneously applying a reset voltage to the gate electrode of the drive transistor of each of the pixel circuits to control fluctuation of a threshold voltage of the drive transistor, the reset voltage being a voltage with which a gate electrode-source electrode voltage of the drive transistor becomes a voltage larger than the threshold voltage of the drive transistor; a reset-stopping step of applying a voltage that is smaller than the threshold voltage of the drive transistor to the gate electrode of the drive transistor, after the resetting step; a step of causing the data voltage to be held in the capacitive element, sequentially on a row-by-row basis, after the reset-stopping step, the rows being included in the matrix; and a step of simultaneously causing the light-emitting element of each of the pixel circuits to emit light according to the data voltage, by setting the voltage between both of the electrodes of the light-emitting element to be larger than the threshold voltage of the light-emitting element by adjusting the voltage outputted by the power source circuit to the first power source line or the second power source line.