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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Kazuo Takizawa, Sakai, JP;
Noritaka Kishi, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to implement a display device capable of compensating for degradation of circuit elements without causing a grayscale failure. Based on the results of detection of characteristics of drive transistors and organic EL elements, a control circuit () finds magnitudes of threshold shifts of the drive transistors and the organic EL elements. A power supply voltage control unit () sets a value of a low-level power supply voltage (ELVSS) to a value lower, by a voltage value corresponding to an average value of the magnitudes of the threshold shifts for all pixels, than a value at an initial point in time. Furthermore, the power supply voltage control unit () adjusts a value of a high-level power supply voltage (ELVDD), depending on magnitudes of mobilities obtained by detection of characteristics of the drive transistors.