Patent ID: 7170232

Claim:
A display device comprising: a plurality of pixel circuits, arranged in a matrix, each of which includes a light-emitting element that emits light with a luminance depending on an injected electric current, and a transistor that controls the electric current flowing through the light-emitting element, each of the pixel circuits performing prior to emission of light by the light-emitting element an electric charge accumulating operation in which a voltage between a gate and a source of the transistor is raised to a level higher than a driving threshold voltage of the transistor through accumulation of electric charges to a predetermined capacitor, and each of the pixel circuits performing a voltage detecting/supplying operation in which a voltage corresponding to the driving threshold voltage is detected/supplied between the gate and the source of the transistor through adjustment of the voltage between the gate and the source; and a driver circuit that controls at least a timing of detection and supply of a voltage corresponding to electric charge accumulation and the driving threshold voltage in the pixel circuit, wherein the driver circuit controls so that the electric charge accumulation and the voltage detection/supply start substantially simultaneously for a pixel circuit in a first row in the matrix and a pixel circuit in a second row in the matrix and adjacent to the pixel circuit in the first row in one direction along a column, and controls so that the electric charge accumulation and the voltage detection/supply end substantially simultaneously for the pixel circuit in the first row and a pixel circuit in a third row and adjacent to the pixel circuit in the first row in another direction along the column.