Patent ID: 8497886

Claim:
An illumination apparatus comprising: a light emitting unit comprising a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines crossing corresponding ones of the scanning lines, and a plurality of light emitting areas connected between the scanning lines and the data lines, wherein the light emitting areas include a first light emitting area including at least two first organic light emitting devices emitting a first color light and a second light emitting area including at least two second organic light emitting devices emitting a second color light different from the first color light; and a driving unit non-simultaneously driving the first light emitting area and the second light emitting area to emit light during a frame, wherein emissions of the first color light and the emissions of the second color light are non-simultaneous, and wherein all of the first organic light emitting devices that are coupled to a same one of the data lines receive a first data signal having a same level during the frame to emit the first color light, and all of the second organic light emitting devices that are coupled to a same one of the data lines receive a second data signal having a same level during the frame to emit the second color light.