Patent ID: 8358297

Claim:
A driving method for driving the display apparatus, said display apparatus including (1): N ×M light emitting units laid out to form a two-dimensional matrix composed of N matrix columns oriented in a first direction and M matrix rows oriented in a second direction; (2): M scan lines each stretched in said first direction; (3): N data lines each stretched in said second direction; (4): a driving circuit provided for each of said light emitting units including a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor, a capacitor and a first switch circuit; and (5): a light emitting device provided for each of said light emitting units to serve as a device for emitting light at a luminance according to a driving current output by said device driving transistor to said light emitting device; wherein in each of said light emitting units (A-1): a first source and drain area of said signal writing transistor is connected to one of said data lines, A-2): a gate electrode of said signal writing transistor is connected to one of said scan lines, (B-1): a first source and drain area of said device driving transistor is connected to a second source and drain area of said signal writing transistor through a first node, (C-1): a first terminal of said capacitor is connected to a second power-supply line conveying a second power-supply voltage determined in advance, (C-2): a second terminal of said capacitor is connected to a gate electrode of said device driving transistor through a second node, (D-1): a first terminal of said first switch circuit is connected to said second node, (D-2): a second terminal of said first switch circuit is connected to the second source and drain area of said device driving transistor, and (E): said driving circuit further has a second switch circuit connected between said second node and a first power-supply line, and said driving method comprises: a second-node electric-potential initialization process of applying a predetermined initialization voltage appearing on said first power-supply line to said second node by way of said second switch circuit put in a turned-on state and, then, putting said second switch circuit in a turned-off state in order to set an electric potential appearing on said second node at a reference electric potential determined in advance; and a light emission process of sustaining said second switch circuit in a turned-off state and applying a predetermined driving voltage appearing on said first power-supply line to said first node in order to allow a driving current to flow from said device driving transistor to said light emitting device so as to drive said light emitting device to emit light.