Patent ID: 8878802

Claim:
A display unit comprising: a display section; a memory controlled such that two or more sets of image information are written into the memory during one frame period, each of the two or more sets of image information being less than one frame of image information, each set of image information being written into the memory by overwriting the previous set of image information in the memory; a drive section configured to partition the display section into a plurality of display sub-regions each configured of two or more display lines, and performs a display drive on each display sub-region in a first period through reading the image information from the memory at a higher speed than a write speed to the memory; and a processing section configured to perform a predetermined process in conjunction with the drive section in a second period different from the first period, wherein, a length of each writing period for writing the less than one frame of image information into the memory is constant, and each writing period overlaps the first period and the second period.