Patent ID: 8044894

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a pixel array section and a drive section for driving the pixel array section, the pixel array section including scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixels arranged in a matrix, and predetermined power feed lines, the drive section including a control scanner adapted to sequentially output control signals to the respective scanning line and carrying out line progressive scanning on the pixels in units of a row, and a signal driver adapted to supply the signal lines arranged in columns with a signal potential which is a video signal and a reference potential in accordance with the line progressive scanning, the pixel including a light emitting element, a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, and a holding capacitance, the sampling transistor having a gate connected to the scanning line, one of a source and a drain connected to the signal line, and the other of the source and the drain connected to the drive transistor, the drive transistor having one of a source and a drain connected to the light emitting element and the other of the source and the drain connected to the power feed line, the holding capacitance being composed of a display apparatus connected between the source and the gate of the drive transistor, wherein after the sampling transistor is turned ON at a first timing when the control signal has risen, during a sampling period from a second timing when the video signal has risen from a reference potential to a signal potential to a third timing when the control signal has fallen and is turned OFF, the sampling transistor samples the signal potential and writes the signal potential in the holding capacitance, the sampling transistor also carries out negative feedback on a current flowing into the drive transistor during the sampling period to the holding capacitance and applies a correction with respect to a mobility of the drive transistor on the signal potential written in the holding capacitance, the drive transistor supplies a drive current to the light emitting element in accordance with the corrected signal potential to emit light, and the signal driver adjusts the second timing for the video signal supplied to the respective signal lines to correct a backward shift of the third timing due to a transmission delay along the scanning line of the control signal output from the control scanner.