Patent ID: 8836620

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising a display panel, the display panel including pixel circuits and a drive circuit, at least one of the pixel circuits including: a light-emitting element having diode characteristics; a drive transistor configured to control a driving current for the light-emitting element; a capacitor coupled to a control node of the drive transistor; a switching transistor configured to sample a potential signal from a signal line to the capacitor; and the drive circuit being configured to: set an anode electrode of the light-emitting element to a first state so as to keep the light-emitting element in a non-emission state without applying a reverse-biased potential to the anode electrode, set the anode electrode of the light-emitting element in a second state so as to keep the light-emitting element in the non-emission state by applying a first potential to the anode electrode, store a data voltage in the capacitor, the data voltage depending on characteristic information of the drive transistor and image signal information, and apply a second potential to the drive transistor so as to supply a driving current to the light-emitting element, the drive transistor controlling the driving current according to the data voltage.