Patent ID: 7639216

Claim:
A method for driving an electroluminescent display device, said electroluminescent display device having a plurality of rows of pixels, each pixel comprising a light emitting element, a switching transistor, and a driving transistor electrically coupled to said switching transistor and said light emitting element, said electroluminescent display device being able to display a frame within a display period, said method comprising the steps of: dividing said display period into a first time interval, a second time interval, and a third time interval; driving said plurality of rows of pixels in sequence within said first time interval and said second time interval, respectively; applying a display data to said plurality of rows of pixels within said first time interval; applying a gray level data to said plurality of rows of pixels within said second time interval; and resetting a plurality of transistors of said plurality of rows of pixels within said third time interval, wherein the duration from driving one of said plurality of rows of pixels within said first time interval to driving said one of said plurality of rows of pixels within said second time interval is equal to the duration from driving the other one of said plurality of rows of pixels within said first time interval to driving said other one of said plurality of rows of pixels within said second time interval.