Patent ID: 8368622

Claim:
A display apparatus, comprising: a display section including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix; a driving section to control said display section to display an image; each of said pixels including: a light emitting device, a signal level storage capacitor, a writing transistor to write a signal to the signal level storage capacitor, and a driving transistor to drive said light emitting device in response to a voltage stored in the signal level storage capacitor, wherein said driving section being operable: within a first period, to write a halftone voltage signal corresponding to a halftone of said light emitting device to said signal level storage capacitor, and to turn on said driving transistor to charge said signal level storage capacitor, within a second period after the first period, to write a fixed voltage signal to said signal level storage capacitor, and to turn off said driving transistor, and within a third period after the second period, to write a gradation voltage signal corresponding to an image signal, and to turn on said driving transistor to charge said signal level storage capacitor; and signal lines connected to the pixels, wherein said driving section drives signal lines time-divisionally, wherein the time-divisional driving is a process of setting the halftone voltage or the fixed voltage simultaneously to the signal level storage capacitors of the pixels of a gradation setting object connected to said signal lines, and setting said signal lines successively to the gradation voltages of the pixels of the gradation setting object to hold the gradation voltage by a capacitance of said signal lines and then setting the gradation voltage held in said signal lines to the signal level storage capacitors of the pixels of the gradation setting object.