Patent ID: 7443367

Claim:
A display device, comprising: an electro-optic element, being a current-driven type, which serves as a display light source; a driving transistor for supplying an output current from a current output terminal to the electro-optic element as a driving current for driving the electro-optic element, the output current being controlled by a voltage which is applied between a current control terminal and a reference potential terminal; a first switching transistor; a second switching transistor; and a first capacitor, the electro-optic element and the driving transistor being disposed in each of a plurality of pixels which are aligned in a matrix manner, and the driving current corresponding to display data supplied from a data wire to the pixel, wherein: the driving transistor, the first switching transistor, and the electro-optic element are serially connected, and the current control terminal of the driving transistor is connected to a first terminal of the first capacitor, and the second switching transistor is provided between the current control terminal and the current output terminal of the driving transistor, and the second switching transistor is put in an ON state and the first switching transistor is put in an OFF state in a first period which starts from a time when a potential corresponding to display data of the pixel is supplied from the data wire to the current control terminal of the driving transistor and a corresponding charge is stored in the first capacitor, and the output current of the driving transistor is adjusted in a second period by changing a potential of a second terminal of the first capacitor or a potential of the reference potential terminal of the driving transistor.