Patent ID: 8223178

Claim:
A method for driving a light-emitting panel of a lighting apparatus formed by layering plural first electrodes, one or more organic layers comprising a light-emitting layer, and plural second electrodes on a substrate, wherein a light-emitting surface of the lighting apparatus is divided into at least 16 areas by forming the plural first electrodes and the plural second electrodes so as to intersect each other in a shape of a grid, the method comprising: making the light-emitting surface of the lighting apparatus emit illumination light by sequentially driving the at least 16 areas by time sharing such that in each divided period of time sharing, a fixed voltage is applied to a predetermined number of areas of the at least 16 areas such that: (i) said predetermined number of areas which are not neighboring to each other are set in an ON-state and emit illumination light at the same time, and (ii) a remainder of the at least 16 areas other than said predetermined number of areas are set in an OFF-state to not emit illumination light.