Providing a light emitting device capable of suppressing the variations of
luminance of OLEDs associated with the deterioration of an organic light
emitting material, and achieving a consistent luminance. An input video
signal is constantly or periodically sampled to sense a light emission
period or displayed gradation level of each of light emitting elements of
pixels and then, a pixel suffering the greatest deterioration and
decreased luminance is predicted from the accumulations of the sensed
values. A voltage supply to the target pixel is corrected for achieving a
desired luminance. The other pixels than the target pixel are supplied
with an excessive voltage and hence, the individual gradation levels of
the pixels are lowered by correcting the video signal for driving the
pixel with the deteriorated light emitting element on as-needed basis,
the correction of the video signal made by comparing the accumulation of
the sensed values of each of the other pixels with a previously stored
data on a time-varying luminance characteristic of the light emitting
element.