Display device

1. A display device comprising:

a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction and each including a memory block that includes a plurality of memories each of which configured to store therein sub-pixel data;

a plurality of memory selection line groups provided corresponding to a plurality of rows and each including a plurality of memory selection lines electrically coupled to the memory blocks in the sub-pixels that belong to the corresponding row;

a memory selection circuit configured to concurrently output memory selection signals to the memory selection line groups, the memory selection signals each being a signal for selecting one from the memories in the corresponding memory block;

a potential line having a potential for operating the memories applied thereto;

a conduction switch provided for at least one of the memories in the memory block on a one-to-one basis and configured to switch between electrically coupling and electrically uncoupling the potential line and a corresponding one memory; and

an operating-memory conduction circuit configured to output, to the conduction switch, an operation signal for determining whether to electrically couple or uncouple the potential line and the corresponding one memory,

wherein each of the memories is capable of storing sub-pixel data therein when being coupled to the potential line, and

wherein each of the sub-pixels displays an image based on the sub-pixel data stored in one of the memories in the sub-pixel in accordance with the memory selection line that has been supplied with the memory selection signal.

2. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conduction switch is provided for every memory in each of the memory blocks on a one-to-one basis.

3. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the memories in each of the memory blocks include at least one memory provided with no conduction switches, and at least one other memory provided with the conduction switch on a one-to-one basis, and

wherein the at least one memory provided with no conduction switches is coupled to the potential line with no conduction switches therebetween.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an operation signal line configured to transmit the operation signal to the conduction switch provided for one of the memories in each of the corresponding memory blocks.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a plurality of gate line groups provided for respective rows and each including a plurality of gate lines electrically coupled to the memory blocks in the sub-pixels that belong to the corresponding row;

a gate line drive circuit configured to sequentially output a gate signal to the rows in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks, the gate signal being a signal for selecting one of the rows;

a plurality of source lines provided for respective columns;

a source line drive circuit configured to output a plurality of pieces of the sub-pixel data to the source lines in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks; and

a gate line selection circuit configured to electrically couple one of the gate lines in each of the gate line groups to the gate line drive circuit in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks,

wherein each of the sub-pixels in one of the rows that has the gate signal supplied thereto causes the sub-pixel data supplied to the corresponding source line to be stored in one of the memories therein in accordance with the gate lines that has the gate signal supplied thereto.

6. The display device according to claim 5 ,

wherein, each of the sub-pixels displays an image based on the sub-pixel data stored in a first memory of the sub-pixel, in accordance with the memory selection line that has been supplied with the memory selection signal, and at the same time, the sub-pixel stores the sub-pixel data that has been supplied to the corresponding source line in a second memory of the sub-pixel, in accordance with the gate line that has been supplied with the gate signal, and

wherein the first memory is one of the memories of the sub-pixel, and the second memory is one of the memories thereof different from the first memory.

7. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the sub-pixels further includes

a sub-pixel electrode, and

a switch circuit configured to output the sub-pixel data output from the memory block to the sub-pixel electrode,

wherein the display device further comprises:

a common electrode to which a common potential common to the sub-pixels is supplied;

a common-electrode drive circuit configured to invert the common potential in synchronization with a reference signal and output the inverted common potential to the common electrode;

a plurality of display signal lines provided for the rows and electrically coupled to the switch circuits; and

an inversion drive circuit configured to invert display signals in synchronization with the reference signal and output the inverted display signals to the display signal lines, the display signals being signals for maintaining or inverting the sub-pixel data supplied to the sub-pixel electrodes, and

wherein the switch circuits maintain or invert the sub-pixel data based on the display signals and output the sub-pixel data to the sub-pixel electrodes.

8. The display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the memory selection circuit sequentially switches a destination to which the memory selection signal is to be output, from one to another among memory selection lines in each of the memory selection line groups, the memory selection lines, and

wherein, in accordance with the sequential switching of the memory selection lines to which the memory selection signal is to be output, the sub-pixels display a moving image based on the sub-pixel data stored in the memories.