Patent ID: 8624881

Claim:
An image display control device which outputs a driving signal for screen display to an electronic paper display that displays a refresh screen before updating and displaying a screen, the image display control device comprising: a sampling section that inputs one piece of image data in every prescribed period from a plurality of consecutively transmitted image data which corresponds to one screen of the electronic paper display; a difference detecting section that detects a difference amount showing a difference between previous image data and latter image data of two pieces of the consecutive image data inputted by the sampling section, and determines to perform screen update by using the latter image data when the difference amount is equal to or larger than a threshold value; and a driving section that generates the driving signal for the latter image data and outputs the driving signal to the electronic paper display when the screen update is determined by the difference detecting section, wherein the threshold value includes a first threshold value and a second threshold value that is smaller than the first threshold value; and the difference detecting section judges that the latter image data is a new still picture that is different from the previous image data when the difference amount is equal to or larger than the first threshold value, and instructs the driving section to generate the driving signal corresponding to the new still picture, and judges that the latter image data is a moving picture when the difference amount is less than the first threshold value and equal to or larger than the second threshold value, and instructs the driving section to generate the driving signal corresponding to the moving picture, and wherein when generating the driving signal corresponding to the moving picture, the driving section instructs the sampling section to input additional image data in the same prescribed period from the plurality of consecutively transmitted image data, synthesizes a plurality of the image data inputted by the sampling section upon receiving that instruction, and generates the driving signal for the synthesized image data.