Patent ID: 8610647

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a display unit in which pixel circuits are arranged in a matrix form; a signal line driving circuit that outputs a driving signal to a signal line provided in the display unit; and a scanning line driving circuit that outputs at least a driving signal for power supply and a write signal to a scanning line provided in the display unit, wherein the pixel circuit includes at least: a light-emitting device; a driving transistor, to a drain of which the driving signal for power supply is applied to drive by current the light-emitting device by a driving current in accordance with a gate-source voltage; a holding capacity that holds the gate-source voltage; and a write transistor that connects a gate of the driving transistor to the signal line by the write signal to set a terminal voltage of the holding capacity to a voltage of the signal line, and alternately repeats an emission period during which the light-emitting device is caused to emit light and a non-emission period during which light emission by the light-emitting device is stopped, wherein within a given frame, the emission period has a pause during which light emission by the light-emitting device is temporarily stopped, the pause being provided within a middle portion of the emission period for the given frame, and the scanning line driving circuit causes the light-emitting device to stop light emission for the pause by setting the scanning line of the driving signal for power supply to a floating state.