| 摘要 |
Provided are a display device and a display control method capable of reducing a visually unpleasant sensation that is experienced by a user. This display device includes a display panel (1) which displays a video picture, a backlight unit (3) which is disposed on a back surface of the display panel (1), and which includes a plurality of light sources for each region obtained by dividing the display panel (1) into a plurality of regions, a region characteristic amount detection unit (6) which detects a characteristic amount of an image of each of the divided regions, a full screen characteristic amount detection unit (5) which detects a characteristic amount of an image of the overall display panel, a region brightness determination unit (7) which determines an emission brightness of the respective light sources corresponding to each of the regions based on the detected characteristic amount of the image of each region, and the detected characteristic amount of the image of the overall display panel, and a backlight drive unit (4) which drives the respective light sources to emit light at the determined emission brightness. |
