Patent ID: 7999770

Claim:
An electro-optical device, comprising: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of pixels located at intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines; a scanning-line driving circuit that selects the scanning line corresponding to a pixel to which data showing display gradation is written and that outputs a pulse signal synchronous with the scanning signal; and a data-line driving circuit that cooperates with the scanning-line driving circuit and that outputs a data voltage to the data line corresponding to the pixel to which data is written, each of the pixels including: a switching transistor that is connected to the data line, and is controlled by the scanning signal; a capacitor that is coupled with the switching transistor, and stores an electric charge corresponding to the data voltage; a drive transistor that sets a driving current according to the electric charge stored in the capacitor; an electro-optical element that emits light with a brightness corresponding to the driving current; and a control transistor that repeatedly interrupts a current path for the driving current under conduction control according to the pulse signal synchronous with the scanning signal for a period after the scanning line corresponding to the pixel to which data is written is selected until the immediate next time this scanning line is selected.