Patent ID: 8253663

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a pixel array section including pixel circuits laid out to form a matrix as pixel circuits each having an electro-optical device, a write transistor configured to carry out a voltage storing process to sample a video signal that is provided from a signal line, and to store said sampled video signal into said pixel circuit, a holding capacitor configured to hold said sampled video signal stored in said pixel circuit by said write transistor, and a driving transistor configured to drive said electro-optical device on the basis of said video signal held by said voltage holding capacitor; and a driving circuit configured to carry out a selective scan operation on said pixel circuits in said pixel array section in row units, a preparatory operation to set electric potentials on a gate and a source of said driving transistor during a non-light-emitting period, and a threshold-voltage correction operation to correct variations of the threshold voltage of every driving transistor for each pixel row selected in said selective scan operation: wherein, before said driving circuit carries out the threshold-voltage correction operation on a pixel row in a horizontal scan period, said driving circuit performs the preparatory operation on said pixel row in order to set the electric potential on the gate of said driving transistor according to a first reference voltage provided from the signal line through the write transistor and to set the electric potential on the source of said driving transistor according to a second reference voltage provided through the driving transistor.