Patent ID: 8884996

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a plurality of pixels each including a display element; a driving section including a scanning line driving circuit and a signal line driving circuit for performing display drive on the pixels based on an at least an image signal input from a signal line that is connected to the signal line driving circuit; a plurality of potential lines including a first potential line and a second potential line, different gray-scale potentials being applied to the first potential line and the second potential line, respectively a pixel circuit configured to select one of the plurality of potential lines in response to the input signal from the signal line so that a first resistance of the first potential line that maintains at a first gray-scale potential level allows a first luminance gradient and is lower than a second resistance of the second potential line that is maintained at a second gray-scale potential level allowing a second luminance gradient that is less steep than that of the first luminance gradient, the luminance gradients representing a magnitude of a display luminance variation caused by a variation in a voltage or current applied to the display element, wherein the driving section performs display drive on the pixels based on the image signal input from the signal line, through supplying the display element of each of the pixels with a gray-scale potential level of selected one of the plurality of potential lines.