Patent ID: 8446355

Claim:
A display device which displays images towards two or more different directions by supplying image signals to two or more pixels connected respectively to two or more scanning lines and two or more data lines, the device comprising: a plurality of pixel units that each contains N neighboring pixels, each of the pixel units displaying images in N different directions, where N≧2 and the pixels are disposed in a vicinity of respective proximal points between two of the scanning lines and two of the data lines; an optical element which distributes light emitted from each of the pixels that configure a respective one of the pixel units to the N directions; two or more video signal lines for outputting image signals, with which images are displayed in the N directions, to the data lines connected respectively to the pixels that configure the pixel unit; two or more control lines for controlling connections between the data lines and the video signal lines; and a wiring switching element having pixel switches for distributing the image signals for displaying images in the N different directions to the pixels based on a control signal inputted to a respective one of the control lines, wherein the pixel switches supply the image data to the pixels via the data lines by successively switching and connecting M of the data lines, M≧2, and wherein the wiring switching element allots switching orders for the pixel switches within pixel groups that each contains the pixels that display an image in a respective same one of the N directions.