Patent ID: 6894685

Claim:
A driving method for driving an electroluminescence device having a plurality of luminous elements provided at intersections of a plurality of anode lines and a plurality of cathode lines arranged in a matrix, the anode lines being a one of scan lines and drive lines and the cathode lines being an other of scan lines and drive lines, the driving method comprising: driving one of the plurality of luminous elements provided at an intersection of a desired drive line to emit light in synchronism with scanning while scanning the scan lines at a specific frequency, wherein an already selected scanning line is switchedly connected to a source voltage to apply a reverse bias to the one of the plurality of luminous elements connected to the already selected scanning line, and at the same time remaining scanning lines other than the already selected scanning line are switchedy connected to a ground voltage so as to discharge a charge stored to others of the plurality of luminous elements connected to remaining scanning lines, in a course of switching from the already selected scanning line to a next scanning line.