Patent ID: 8502752

Claim:
An electro-optical apparatus comprising: a plurality of unit circuits which is arranged to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines; wherein each data line includes an even number of wirings, and wherein a half of the wirings are arranged on one side of the unit circuit and the remaining half thereof are arranged on the other side of the unit circuit; a scanning line driving circuit which sequentially selects one scanning line in every driving period included in a unit period; and a data line driving circuit which outputs data electric potentials corresponding to gradation data of the unit circuits corresponding to the scanning line selected in the driving period in the unit period to any one of the respective wirings included in each data line, in every writing period which is included in each unit period before the driving period begins, wherein each of the plurality of unit circuits includes: an electro-optical element which provides gradation corresponding to the data electric potential; a capacitor element which has a first electrode connected to a capacitor line and a second electrode directly connected to one of the respective wirings arranged on the one side of the data line; and a switching element which has a first electrode directly connected to the second electrode of the capacitor element, a second electrode directly connected to the electro-optical element, and is switched on when the scanning line is selected by the scanning line driving circuit so as to conduct between the second electrode of the capacitor element and the electro-optical element, and wherein the second electrode of the capacitor element included in another unit circuit arranged in a column along an extension direction of the data line is directly connected to another wiring of the respective wirings included in the data line arranged on the other side of the unit circuit.