Patent ID: 6400340
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: G09G,Y10S

Abstract:
Method for controlling a display device including plural display elements which constitute a two-dimensional pixel arrangement and a controller to control the respective display elements, said method comprising steps of:defining plural kinds of divisional modes for dividing the two-dimensional pixel arrangement into plural software blocks so that the respective divisional modes are represented by divisional level information indicating fineness of division; preparing a plurality of display signals including divisional level information, address information and data information; delivering said display signals to the controller; and operating the controller to execute a display operation for changing a display state of a display element or elements belonging to a particular software block indicated by the address information so that the display state is changed to a new state indicated by the data information, said particular software block being selected from among the plural software blocks which are obtained when the two dimensional pixel arrangement is divided by a divisional mode indicated by the divisional level information; and wherein a divisional mode indicated by a divisional level n is defined in which the two-dimensional pixel arrangement is divided by 2n in length and breadth directions so that 22n number of software blocks are obtained and N kinds of divisional modes are defined with respect to n=1,2, . . . ,i, . . . ,N.