Patent ID: 8553023

Claim:
An electro-optical device comprising: a plurality of unit circuits provided correspondingly to intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines; and a scanning line drive circuit which supplies a control signal for controlling the unit circuits to each of the plurality of scanning lines, wherein each of the plurality of unit circuits includes: a light emitting element which emits light with an intensity in accordance with a magnitude of a drive current; a drive transistor which outputs the drive current when a data potential supplied via the data line is supplied to a gate thereof; a light emitting control transistor which determines whether to flow the drive current through the drive transistor itself; and a switching element with one end connected to the gate of the drive transistor and the other end connected to the data line, wherein each of the plurality of scanning lines includes a light emitting control line which serves as a channel of a light emitting control signal, the light emitting control signal being the control signal which directs the gate of the light emitting control transistor arranged along an extending direction of the scanning line to shift the light emitting control transistor between a conductive state and a non-conductive state, wherein the scanning line drive circuit includes: a first light emitting control line drive circuit connected to one end of the light emitting control line; and a second light emitting control line drive circuit connected to the other end of the light emitting control line, and wherein the first and second light emitting control line drive circuits supply the light emitting control signal for shifting the light emitting control transistor to the conductive state to the light emitting control line from both ends thereof at a timing at which a mobility compensation operation is carried out.