Patent ID: 7061459

Claim:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) controller that display-drives a LCD display section based on display data, the LCD display controller comprising: a storage device that stores display data for at least one frame; a first display data receiving device that receives display data to be written in the storage device during a dummy blanking period provided prior to a start of scanning at the display section; a display data writing device that writes the display data received by the first display data receiving device in the storage device during the dummy blanking period; and a LCD display driving device that display-drives the LCD display section based on the display data read from the storage device, the dummy blanking period being provided before a vertical scanning in the display section starts, and the first display data receiving device receiving display data for one frame for the frame during the dummy blanking period where an amount of display data for one frame is defined as D, and a transfer data rate of display data to be received by the first display data receiving device is defined as R, the dummy blanking period being provided only for a period that is represented by D/R.