Patent ID: 8848000

Claim:
A display device comprising: a display section including a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of power lines, being arranged in rows, a plurality of signal lines arranged in columns, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; and a driver section driving each pixel, wherein each pixel has a light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the pixel circuit has a first transistor connected to the power line and controlling a current flowing into the light emitting element, a second transistor connected to the scan line and the signal line and writing a voltage of the signal line to the first transistor, and a capacitor, both of the first and second transistors being connected to a first end of the capacitor, and a second end of the capacitor being connected to the light emitting element, the plurality of power lines are individually provided for each of units with a plurality of pixel rows as a unit, and the driver section sequentially applies one, first pulse signal for stopping light emission of the light emitting element to a plurality of scan lines in each unit, and applies one or more, second pulse signal for turning the second transistor on to at least a scan line corresponding to a pixel row, being first stopped in light emission, among a plurality of pixel rows in each unit while a non-gray-scale signal is applied to each signal line, wherein for each unit, a first voltage is applied to the respective power line of the unit during a non-emission period and is lowered to a second voltage at an end of the non-emission period, said second pulse signals being applied prior to the change from the first voltage to the second voltage.