Patent ID: 8179397

Claim:
A screen display control device comprising: a compression unit which compresses input image data into line units of compressed data; a rewritable image memory to which line units of compressed data compressed by the compression unit are written in non-synchronization with a reading process; a decompression unit which decompresses line units of compressed data periodically read from the image memory in synchronization with screen display during the reading process to restore original image data; a display unit which displays an image of original image data decompressed and restored by the decompression unit; a buffer memory which temporarily maintains one-line data of input image data; and a writing/reading control unit which controls writing compressed data to the image memory, reading compressed data from the image memory, writing input image data to the buffer memory, and reading input image data from the buffer memory, wherein, when writing a first line unit of compressed data corresponding to a particular line to the image memory competes with reading a second line unit of compressed data corresponding to the same particular line from the image memory, the writing/reading control unit maintains input image data corresponding to the particular line in the buffer memory, and wherein the writing/reading control unit subsequently allows the compression unit to compress the input image data maintained in the buffer memory into compressed image data comprising a plurality of pixel units, and writes each of the plurality of pixel units to a corresponding vacant pixel unit storage area in the image memory, the vacant pixel unit storage area being generated in response to a process of reading the second line unit of compressed data.