Patent ID: 8269695

Claim:
A self-emission type display device comprising: a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines crossing the data lines, a plurality of power lines and a plurality of self-emission pixels connected to the data lines, the scanning lines and the power lines; a data line drive circuit for applying a drive signal to the data lines; a scanning line drive circuit for applying a drive signal to the scanning lines, and for selecting pixels to be driven; a display control circuit for generating a control signal to control the data line drive circuit and the scanning line drive circuit based on input display data and a timing signal; a voltage generating circuit for generating a drive voltage to be applied to the power lines; a current detection circuit for detecting a current flowing through a pixel having been affected due to sticking, and for comparing an amount of the current detected with a reference value supplied by the voltage generating circuit; and a storage circuit provided within the display control circuit; wherein the storage circuit is arranged to store the display data with adding predetermined data if the amount of the current detected has a predetermined relationship with the reference value, the display data to be stored in the storage circuit including the predetermined data indicating a current change due to sticking stored separately from the other portion in the display data; and wherein the data line drive circuit determines a strength of the drive signal based on the inputted display data with the predetermined data, so that each of inputted display data with the predetermined data is outputted at a time through a corresponding pixel according to the strength of the drive signal having been determined, the display data with the predetermined data to be outputted at a time including a predetermined number of bits for each corresponding pixel.