Patent ID: 8736519

Claim:
An organic electro-luminance display device comprising: a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that cross to define a plurality of pixels and a plurality of power lines to apply signal to the pixels; a data driving unit for supplying a plurality of data signals to the data lines, respectively; an emitting unit at each pixel that emits light; a first thin film transistor at said each pixel, the first thin film transistor being turned on by a gate signal on one of the gate lines; a second thin film transistor at said each pixel, the second thin film transistor being turned on to apply a signal to the emitting unit from one of the power lines when the first thin film transistor is turned on; and a ground terminal voltage controlling unit that controls a first ground terminal voltage Vss_IC and a second ground terminal voltage Vss_EL, wherein the data driving unit is supplied with the first ground terminal voltage Vss_IC from the ground terminal voltage controlling unit and outputs the data signal to the data line in accordance with the first ground terminal voltage Vss_IC which is a reference voltage determined in the ground terminal voltage controlling unit, and the emitting unit is supplied with the second ground terminal voltage Vss_EL from the ground terminal voltage controlling unit and emits light with a brightness determined by a voltage of the data signal with respect to the second ground terminal voltage Vss_EL, and wherein the second ground terminal voltage Vss_EL is higher than the first ground terminal voltage Vss_IC, Vss_EL=Vss_IC+Va, the second ground terminal voltage controls a gate-source voltage Vgs of the second thin film transistor, and the gate-source voltage Vgs is lowered by Va than a gate-source voltage controlled by the first ground terminal voltage Vss_IC, where Va is a positive voltage.