US Patent 7233023 Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus

To prevent an electrostatic discharge in transistors constituting a driving circuit built in a substrate. The shift register and the level shifter constituting a scanning line driving circuit include TFT elements respectively which employing the polysilicon layer formed on the element substrate as a semiconductor layer. Each TFT element constituting the level shifter has a gate electrode opposing the channel region of the polysilicon layer with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. Each polysilicon layer is shared by a plurality of TFT elements with being separated from each other. The total area ‘S’ of each polysilicon layer which opposes the gate electrode of the TFT element is 3000 μm2 or less.