Patent ID: 6839054

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a plurality of display devices wired in a matrix through a plurality of scanning signal wirings and a plurality of modulated signal wirings; and a driving circuit for applying a modulated signal having a potential and a pulsewidth corresponding to an image signal to each of said plurality of modulated signal wirings, wherein said driving circuit causes the modulated signal to fall to a non-display state from a display state by way of an intermediate level being kept for a predetermined time period between a predetermined level of the display state, within a selected period, and a predetermined level of the non-display state, and wherein said scanning signal wirings are connected to a scanning circuit for applying a predetermined potential to a scanning signal wiring selected from said plurality of scanning signal wirings, within each selected period, and said driving circuit applies the potential for driving said display device by a potential difference from the predetermined potential applied to a scanning signal wiring selected by said scanning circuit.