Provided are an image display system and a control method for the image display system capable of displaying an image, which is represented by raster image data to be transferred through burst transmission and which is formed with a plurality of scanning lines, through simple control. An image display system includes a plurality of FIFO memories numbering the same as scanning lines in which pixels to be transferred during one burst transmission are contained do, and an input control unit that selects one of the plurality of FIFO memories according to a line number assigned to a line of pixels corresponding to unit transfer data, and stores second raster image data in the selected FIFO memory.