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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2006
Katsutoshi Moriyama, Saga, JP;
Tomoya Ayabe, Nagasaki, JP;
Taishi Mizuta, Nagasaki, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display memory able to reduce power consumption, able to generate graphics at a high speed, and not needing memory mapping, a driver circuit, a display using the driver circuit, and a portable information apparatus, wherein a CPU read circuit is connected to one bit line of a display memory, a display read circuit is connected to the other bit line, a write circuit is connected to both bit lines, the CPU read circuit and write circuit are assigned to the access from the CPU, the display read circuit is assigned to the display screen display, and further the access from the CPU and the reading to the display screen are assigned to different two level periods of a clock signal of the memory and independently controlled. Further, a drive power supply of the display memory is divided and a drive power supply voltage is supplied to the display memory for every memory cell or for every plurality of memory cells.