Patent ID: 7576707

Claim:
An image display apparatus, the apparatus comprising: an image display unit in which a plurality of wireless image forming elements are arranged, the plurality of wireless image forming elements being adapted to form a single image plane and each of the plurality of wireless image forming elements having an image forming element and a wireless element, the wireless element being adapted to execute a reception of an instruction for image formation by a wireless communication and a reception of a drive energy for the image forming element by a wireless communication, the instruction for image formation containing information indicating an on/off state of the image forming element; and a wireless transmission unit for executing a transmission of the instruction for image formation and a transmission of the drive energy by a wireless communications; wherein only a certain wireless element, which has received information indicating an “on” state of the image forming element, supplies the drive energy to the image forming element which is associated with the certain wireless element and is included in the same wireless image forming element; and wherein the wireless transmission unit executes by a wireless communication a transmission of the instruction for image formation containing the information indicating an on/off state of the image forming element and a transmission of the drive energy simultaneously to all the wireless elements.