DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME

A display device (100) includes a plurality of pixel circuits (10), a gate driver circuit (2) coupled to a plurality of scanning signal lines G i and a plurality of control lines E i , and a power control circuit (4) coupled to a plurality of power lines VP i via a common power line. The pixel circuits (10) each include an organic EL element, a plurality of TFTs, and a capacitor, and are controlled to collectively receive initialization potentials at the beginning of a frame through the power lines VP i , collectively perform threshold detection immediately thereafter, and then perform writing and light-emission operations. Thus, the aperture ratio of the pixel circuits (10) can be kept high, the power control circuit (4) typically has only one output buffer so that the circuit scale thereof is small, drive by potential is performed only once, so that power consumption is low, and threshold detection is performed only once, so that a sufficient amount of time can be ensured for a detection period.