Abstract: A controller in a line drawing circuit uses a Bresenham error term to detect a horizontal line segment in a straight line which is requested to be drawn. At this time, a signal NOPEL representing the number of pixels of the horizontal line segment and a data transfer request signal TRRQ are sent from the line drawing circuit to a data transfer control unit. The data transfer control unit uses a memory control circuit to perform block transfer of a plurality of data corresponding to the number of pixels constituting the horizontal line segment. Therefore, pixel data constituting the horizontal line can be transferred as a block, and the line drawing performance can be improved.