Patent ID: 7714850

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a first display region; a second display region; a plurality of driving circuits which are provided along a sequence of data signal lines and correspond to the display regions; and a controlling circuit configured to send data signals to the respective driving circuits in parallel while sending a start signal to one of the driving circuits in each of the display regions, the plurality of driving circuits being configured so that in each of the display regions an operation of acquiring data signals corresponding to driving circuits sequentially shifting from said one of the driving circuits having received the start signal to a driving circuit next to said one of the driving circuits, the first display region and the second display region being provided adjacently along a sequence of a plurality of data signal lines, the controlling circuit being configured to send the start signals to the two driving circuits closest to a border between the two display regions, and at a time of supplying the data signals, the controlling circuit being configured to rearrange an order of data signals, which are supplied to at least one of the display regions, to be in line with an order of data signals which are supplied to the other one of the display regions, wherein left-and-right inverted display with left-and-right inversion can be carried out, and wherein the controlling circuit is configured to sends, in carrying out left-and-right inverted display, the start signals to the two driving circuits as in a case of carrying out regular display with no left-and-right inversion, and to rearrange an order of the data signals, which are supplied to the driving circuits of the both display regions, to be in line with an order of the data signals supplied to the other one of the display regions and also in accordance with the left-and-right inverted display.