Patent 7800561 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus, including: a plurality of scanning lines extending along rows and configured to successively supply a control signal in synchronism with a horizontal period in order to perform line-sequential scanning over one field; a plurality of signal lines extending along columns and configured to supply an image signal in accordance with the line-sequential scanning; and a plurality of pixel circuits disposed at locations at which the scanning lines and the signal lines intersect with each other and configured to form a screen.