Electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, and method of driving electro-optical device

An electro-optical device comprising:

• a first pixel circuit which is disposed so as to correspond to each intersection between a scanning line and a first data line;
• a second pixel circuit which is disposed so as to correspond to each intersection between a scanning line and a second data line;
• a signal line;
• a selection section that controls a connection state between the signal line and the first data line, the selection section controlling a connection state between the signal line and the first data line;
• a driving circuit that drives the first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit,
• wherein the first pixel circuit includes:
• a first selection transistor that writes a first data potential of the first data line to the first pixel circuit, and
• a first light emitting element that emits light with luminance in accordance with the first data potential,
• wherein the second pixel circuit includes:
• a second selection transistor that writes a second data potential of the second data line to the second pixel circuit, and
• a second light emitting element that emits light with luminance in accordance with the second data potential,
• wherein the driving circuit is operated in a first selection period such that the first data potential is output to the signal line and the first selection transistor and the second selection transistor is set to an off state,
• wherein the driving circuit is operated in a second selection period such that the second data potential is output to the signal line and the first selection transistor and the second selection transistor is set to an off state,
• wherein the driving circuit is operated in a writing period after the first selection period and the second selection period such that the first selection transistor and the second selection transistor are set to an on state, and
• wherein the selection section is operated such that the first data line and the second data line are electrically connected to the signal line in the first selection period and the second data line is electrically connected to the signal line in the second selection period.

A method of driving an electro-optical device at a cycle of a unit period, the electro-optical device including a plurality of pixel circuits each of which is disposed so as to correspond to each intersection between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines sorted as a plurality of blocks each having data lines and a plurality of signal lines each of which corresponds one-to-one to the plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of pixel circuits including a selection transistor that writes a data potential of the data line as an on state in the pixel circuit and a light emitting element that emits light with luminance in accordance with the written data potential,

• wherein the unit period includes a plurality of selection periods and a writing period after the plurality of selection periods,
• wherein the data potential in accordance with the luminance of the light emitting element of the pixel circuit corresponding to each intersection between the scanning line to be selected in the unit period and each data line included in the block corresponding to the signal line is sequentially output to each signal line, and the data line corresponding to the pixel circuit to be used to supply the data potential output to the signal line corresponding to the selection section in the corresponding selection period and the data line corresponding to the pixel circuit to be used to supply the data potential output to the signal line in the selection period after the corresponding section period are selected to be electrically connected to the signal line in the plurality of selection periods, and
• wherein the data potential written to the data line corresponding to the pixel circuit is supplied to each of the plurality of pixel circuits corresponding to the scanning line to be selected in the unit period in the writing period.