Display device

A display device comprising:

• a display unit having actuators arrayed so as to correspond respective picture elements and displaceable for turning on and off the corresponding picture elements;
• each of said actuators having a capacitor structure having a pair of electrodes;
• a plurality of select lines for supplying the picture elements with instructions of selection and unselection;
• a plurality of signal lines for supplying respective picture element signals to each of the picture elements which have been selected;
• a drive unit having drive circuits arrayed so as to correspond respective picture elements and driving an actuator selected from said actuators in response to an instruction from one of the select lines and a signal from one of the signal lines;
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• a selector unit for selecting said actuator which corresponds to the selected respective picture elements;
• each of said drive circuits having a drive potential generating circuit for applying a drive potential based on the signal from said signal line to one of electrodes having said actuator;
• said selector unit having selector circuits for applying select potentials to the other of the electrodes having said actuator corresponding to the selected picture elements.