Patent ID: 8648840

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a pixel array section; and a drive section configured to drive the pixel array section, wherein the pixel array section includes a row of first scanning lines and second scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels respectively disposed at intersections of the first scanning lines and the signal lines, the drive section being configured to output control signals to the row of first scanning lines and second scanning lines, respectively, to perform line progressive scanning on the pixels for each row, and to supply a signal potential of a video signal and a reference potential to a column of signal lines in synchronism with the line progressive scanning, wherein at least one of the pixels includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor, the sampling transistor having a control terminal connected to the first scanning line and a pair of current terminals, one of the current terminals being connected to the signal line, and the other of the current terminals being connected to a control terminal of the driving transistor, the driving transistor having a pair of current terminals, one of the current terminals being connected to a power source line, and the other of the current terminals being connected to the light emitting device, the switching transistor having a control terminal connected to the second scanning line and a pair of current terminals, one of the current terminals being connected to a fixed potential, and the other of the current terminals being connected to the other of the current terminals of the driving transistor, and the holding capacitor having one terminal connected to the control terminal of the driving transistor and the other terminal connected to the other of the current terminals of the driving transistor, wherein the sampling transistor passes a current in accordance with the control signal supplied from the first scanning line, and samples a signal potential of a video signal supplied from the signal line to hold the signal potential in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor causes a drive current to flow through the light emitting device to change the light emitting device to a luminous state in accordance with the held signal potential supplied by the current from the power source line, and the control signal is supplied from the second scanning line to the control terminal of the switching transistor to cause the switching transistor to become ON, which concurrently causes the light emitting device to enter a non-luminous state prior to the sampling of the video signal, wherein during the sampling of the video signal, the control signal is ceased to be supplied to the control terminal of the switching transistor.