Patent ID: 8743032

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels arrayed in rows and columns and each of the plurality of pixels including an electro-optical device; a plurality of units that each comprise n≧2 pixels of the plurality of pixels and one pixel circuit, where each respective pixel circuit is shared by all of the pixels of the respective one of the plurality of units that includes the respective pixel circuit and each respective pixel circuit comprises a writing transistor for writing an image signal, a holding capacitor for holding the image signal written by said writing transistor, and a driving transistor for driving each of the electro-optical devices of the pixels of the respective one of the plurality of units that includes the respective pixel circuit, where n is an integer; and a plurality of scanning circuits configured to time-divisionally and selectively cause a driving current to flow through the electro-optical device of each pixel of a liven one of the plurality of pixels into a forwardly biased state units by: sequentially applying a low potential to the respective cathode electrodes of the electro-optical devices of the pixels of the given one of the plurality of units, and applying, when the low potential is applied to the cathode electrode of one the electro-optical devices of the pixels of the given one of the plurality of units, a high potential to the respective cathode electrodes of the electro-optical devices of the other pixels of the given one of the plurality of units.