Abstract: An electron emission type display apparatus has on a flat plane a matrix layout of multiple light-emitting elements which are connected to cross-points of longitudinal and lateral common electrodes, for sequentially turning on a line of light-emitting elements connected to a common electrode. In such the device, distortion takes place in drive waveform since a low-pass filter (LPF) is formed by a combination of the wiring resistance of the common electrode and the capacitance of a light-emitting element. To avoid such waveform distortion, the width of a light-emitting element driving voltage pulse is caused to be greater than the width of a scan voltage pulse.

Abstract: A display unit converts the image signal having the converted frame rate into an interlacing scanning format when the scanning frequency of a progressive image signal having the converted frame rate is higher than a predetermined value. The predetermined value corresponds to the maximum operation frequency of a display device or a drive circuit that drives the display device.

Abstract: The invention intends to realize long lifetime of electron-emitter elements and a display apparatus by preferably eliminating charges accumulated in the electron-emitter elements. The display apparatus of the invention has: a non-display period extending circuit for extending a non-display period of an input video signal to a period longer than the non-display period of the input video image and outputting the extended signal; a plurality of electron-emitter elements for emitting electrons on the basis of the video signal outputted from the non-display period extending circuit; and a scan driver having a pulse applying circuit for applying a pulse signal to the electron-emitter elements in the non-display period of the video signal extended by the non-display period extending circuit. A pulse width of the pulse signal is set to be longer in accordance with the extended non-display period.