Mountain lion finder window white patches

This is difficult to describe, I'll try and do a screen grab next time it happens, but simply, occasionally, when I wake up my iMac there are big areas of random white patches on the desktop ... it's totally corrupt and I have to bring up the 'Force Quit' dialogue and 'Relainch' finder which clears it so no big deal - I'm more concerned that it might be pointing to a more profound problem.
Best Roger

OK I couldn't get a screen grab (well the phenominon didn't appear in the grab) but here's a photograph, it is a small area of white in the top corner of the screen, often it takes more of the space in random rectangular 'patches' ... any thoughts welcome.
Roger

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