Abstract: A picture display memory system with structure for changing over an address selection signal and data input signal fed to a picture memory depending upon whether the picture information is consecutive in the depth direction or is consecutive in the horizontal direction. When the picture information in the depth direction is to be written, the address selection signal is supplied to the picture memory to select a particular bit in the horizontal direction of the picture memory as an address, and the picture information of the depth direction is written into memory as a data input. When the picture information in the horizontal direction is to be written, bits in the horizontal direction are selected in accordance with the data contents of the picture pattern in the horizontal direction, and data stored in a register which stored beforehand the picture information of the depth direction is written into memory as a data input.