Patent ID: 7023141

Claim:
A method of driving a light emitting device having a plurality of pixels in which light emitting elements have been provided and performing a gradation by controlling a difference between light emitting times of said light emitting elements, comprising: performing a writing of a picture signal in at least one of said plurality of pixels, making at least one of said light emitting elements provided in said at least one of said plurality of pixels in a light emitting state or in a non-light emitting state based on said written picture signal, subsequently forcibly making said at least one of said light emitting elements into a non-light emitting state, and applying reverse bias voltage V 2 whose polarity is inversed between a first electrode and a second electrode of said at least one of said light emitting elements with respect to forward bias voltage V 1 applied between the first electrode and the second electrode of said at least one of said light emitting elements when said at least one of said light emitting elements emits, wherein an expression of |V 1 |≧|V 2 | is held.