Patent ID: 8026669

Claim:
A display device, comprising: display elements expressing one of a plurality of colors and 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 the display elements driven by the pixel circuits adjacent in the column direction are shifted in opposite directions with respect to the pixel circuits.