Patent ID: 7012626

Claim:
A method of driving a display device which includes a display part having pixels of M columns×N rows and a memory, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting element, the method comprising: a step 1 of applying a driving voltage to the driving transistor of each pixel so as to turn on the light emitting element of each pixel and detecting a value of current which flows in the light emitting element of each pixel at times other than a usual light emitting time, a step 2 of calculating correction data for each pixel based on the value of current detected in the step 1; a step 3 of storing the correction data of each pixel calculated in the step 2 in the memory, and a step 4 of applying a driving voltage based on data which is obtained by adding the calculated correction data stored in the memory to video signal data to the driving transistor of each pixel at the usual light emitting time, wherein the step 1, includes: a step 11 in which a driving voltage is applied to the driving transistors of respective pixels in a pixel block formed of the pixels of i (i<M) columns×j(j<N) rows to turn on only the light emitting elements of respective pixels in the inside of the pixel block and detects the values of currents which flow in the respective light emitting elements in the inside of the pixel block by shifting the pixel block in the row direction and the column direction one pixel by one pixel, and a step of detecting a value of current of one pixel by obtaining a difference among the values of currents which flow in the respective light emitting elements in the inside of the pixel block detected in the step 11.