Patent ID: 8284178

Claim:
A self-light-emission-type display panel module comprising: a pixel array section including pixel areas laid out to form a two dimensional matrix in a display area to serve as pixel areas each having a signal holding capacitor, a device driving transistor provided with a control electrode connected to a first electrode of said signal holding capacitor and a first current electrode connected to a second electrode of said signal holding capacitor to serve as a transistor for providing a self-light-emitting device connected to said device driving transistor with a driving current having a magnitude according to a voltage stored in said signal holding capacitor, and a signal sampling transistor for controlling an operation to supply a signal electric potential to said control electrode of said device driving transistor; a first driving section configured to assert said signal electric potential on a data signal line; a second driving section configured to assert an electric-potential write timing signal on a first control line connected to a control electrode of said signal sampling transistor; and a third driving section configured to provide a second control line connected to a second current electrode of said device driving transistor sequentially with the following three different driving voltages: a first driving voltage having a lowest electric potential during a time span between the initial time of a no-light emission period and the start of a period for compensating said device driving transistor for characteristic variations, a second driving voltage having a highest electric potential during a time span between said start of said period for compensating said device driving transistor and an initial portion of a light emission period, and a third driving voltage having an intermediate electric potential after said initial portion of said light emission period.