CLIPPING METHOD AND CLIPPING DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clipping device which can quickly perform clipping of a window protruding from the left end and the upper end of a screen by adding less circuits without changing largely conventional circuit constitution. SOLUTION: When a window to be displayed on a display section is protruded to the left side or the upper side, the number of protruding of pixels is calculated by an initial address conversion register 2. When the number of protruding is calculated, the number of protruding is made an initial value of a main or sub-scanning direction counter in a window read-out address circuit 3. At the same time, An initial value of a main or sub-scanning direction counter in a write-in address generation circuit 5 is specified. Picture data is read out from a window generator 4 conforming to the read-out address generated by the window read-out address circuit 3, the picture data is written in a frame memory conforming to the write-in address generated by the write-in address generation circuit 5.