Patent ID: 8847848

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a display panel which is partitioned into a plurality of panel areas; a storage unit which stores a video frame comprising a plurality of video areas; an operating unit which controls the display panel so that the video frame is displayed on the display panel; and one or more data reading units which read a portion of a video area and a portion of another video area from among the plurality of video areas stored in the storage unit, combine the portions read from different video areas to form a first video area according to a partitioned form of the display panel, and transfer the first video area to the operating unit so that the first video area is displayed on the display panel, wherein the operating unit comprises: a data operating unit which supplies the portions read by the data reading unit to a data line of the display panel, the data operating unit being disposed on a first edge of the display panel; and a gate operating unit which supplies a scan signal to a gate line of the display panel, the gate operating unit being disposed on a second edge of the display panel, wherein the first edge and the second edge are adjacent to each other, and wherein the data operating unit is controlled by a first control signal using a vertical synchronizing signal, and the gate operating unit is controlled by a second control signal using a horizontal synchronizing signal, wherein the one or more data reading units combine, in response to changing a shape of division of the display panel, areas read from the different video areas using a different method, wherein using the different method comprises using a first method for designating a location for storing an address of an image and a second method for reading the image according to the designated address.