Patent ID: 8059116

Claim:
A display device, comprising: an active matrix display panel including a plurality of pixel units each having a light-emitting device, a capacitor for holding a data signal, and a drive transistor for driving the light-emitting device on a basis of a held data signal; a scanning unit for carrying out a sequential line scanning for respective scanning lines in the display panel; a data drive unit for supplying the data signal to the pixel unit according to the scanning of the scanning unit; and a two-terminal switching device provided on each of the plurality of pixel units and connected at a first terminal to a control electrode of the drive transistor and at a second terminal to a one-line previous scanning line scanned by the scanning unit, the two-terminal switching device being turned on according to a magnitude of a scanning voltage applied to a second terminal to supply the scanning voltage to the control electrode, wherein the scanning unit carries out the sequential line scanning by a scanning pulse signal having a bias voltage of a magnitude which can set the drive transistor into a reversely biased state.