Patent ID: 8284135

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixel circuits; and a signal supply circuit which supplies any one of a potential of a video signal, an extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, a reference potential lower than the extinction potential, and a high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, wherein, the pixel circuits are driven in an extinction period, a threshold correction period and a light-emission period; and each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a storage capacitor which retains a voltage corresponding to the video signal, a drive transistor which supplies a current based on the voltage retained in the storage capacitor to the corresponding light-emitting device, a light-emitting device which emits light in accordance with the current supplied from the drive transistor, and a write transistor connected to receive each of the potential of a video signal, the extinction potential for extinguishing light-emitting devices, the reference potential, and the high-level potential higher than the extinction potential, and which writes the voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor after supplying the high-level potential and the extinction potential during the extinction period and the reference potential during the threshold correction period, in that order, to a gate of the drive transistor.