Patent ID: 8553022

Claim:
An image display device comprising: a display section formed by arranging pixel circuits in a form of a matrix; a signal line driving circuit configured to output a driving signal for a signal line to the signal line of said display section; and a scanning line driving circuit configured to output a driving signal for a scanning line to the scanning line of said display section; wherein said pixel circuits each include at least a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to drive said light emitting element connected to a source by a driving current corresponding to a gate-to-source voltage, a storage capacitor configured to retain said gate-to-source voltage, and a writing transistor configured to set a terminal voltage of said storage capacitor by a voltage of the signal line, at least said driving transistor is created by being subjected to an annealing process by irradiation with a laser beam; in said display section, adjacent pixel circuits of said pixel circuits are created in axisymmetric form with respect to the scanning line and/or the signal line; and said signal line driving circuit changes a setting of a voltage of the driving signal for said signal line between said adjacent pixel circuits, wherein said adjacent pixel circuits are an odd-numbered pixel circuit and an even-numbered pixel circuit as determined from one end of said scanning line, and said signal line driving circuit changes the setting of the voltage of the driving signal for said signal line between a signal line of said odd-numbered pixel circuit and a signal line of said even-numbered pixel circuit, and wherein said pixel circuits alternately repeat an emission period for making said light emitting element emit light and a non-emission period for stopping light emission of said light emitting element and setting light emission luminance of said light emitting element in a following emission period, in said non-emission period, said pixel circuits set a voltage across said storage capacitor to a voltage more than a threshold voltage of said driving transistor, and set the voltage across said storage capacitor to a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of said driving transistor by discharging the voltage across said storage capacitor via said driving transistor, and said pixel circuits next set a terminal voltage of said storage capacitor to a voltage of said signal line to set the light emission luminance of said light emitting element in said following emission period.