<p>Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus (1) in which each LED contained in a backlight (20) performs the indication in an LED emission pattern suitable for an entirely blue indication stored in an emission pattern storage unit (30) and selected by an emission pattern selection unit (33) in accordance with the judgment result of the image judgment unit (32) when an entirely blue indication image is to be indicated, and performs the indication in an LED emission pattern suitable for an entirely white indication when all other images including an entirely white indication image are to be indicated. Consequently, it is possible to reduce or eliminate unevenness in indication and specifically to reduce or eliminate unevenness in the display of the entirely blue indication image in which the unevenness tends to be conspicuous.</p>