Method and device for the composition and display of images

Means for composing and viewing images with a video signal input section (11) for converting an input video signal into image data; an image memory (1-8), comprising a plurality of image storing devices, each having an identical structure; a video signal output section (13) for outputting the image memory (1-8) stored data to a display section; a control device (15) for controlling the determination of the connection of each of the plurality of image memory elements (1, ..., 8) to the video signal input section (11) or the video signal output section (13); a CPU (18) for controlling graphics data; and an image drawing portion (16) for developing the graphic data input thereto into pixel data and for writing the pixel data in the image memory elements (1, ..., 8) or for reading out image data from the image memory elements (1-8) and for processing the image data, characterized in that the image drawing portion (16) image data from the for connection to the input section (11) specified image memory elements (1, ..., 4) read, processed and an image in which to ...