Patent ID: 8432101

Claim:
A display device, comprising: display elements each expressing one of a plurality of colors and each composing a pixel, wherein the display elements are arranged in the row direction and the column direction so as to express colors in a periodic arrangement, and wherein in the row direction, the display elements are shifted with respect to an adjacent row by a pixel pitch multiplied by a non-integer; pixel circuits that drive the respective display elements; scanning lines that transmit a row selection signal to the pixel circuits; and signal lines each of which is disposed for a column of each of the pixel circuits, and each of which is disposed straight through in the column direction and transmits a signal, wherein a plurality of the pixel circuits connected to the same signal line drive display elements of different colors between the adjacent rows, in accordance with an arrangement of the colors displayed by the display elements, wherein each of the pixel circuits includes a plurality of circuit elements which are arranged in an area with a same pattern at least in the column direction, and wherein the pixel circuits are disposed straight through in the column direction and, along an axis parallel to the column direction, the display elements expressing a first one of the plurality of colors are shifted in the row direction with respect to respective pixel circuits.