Patent ID: 8531383

Claim:
A display device for receiving input data of a video and displaying the video, comprising: a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged therein for displaying the video; a backlight for irradiating the display panel, the backlight including a plurality of light sources and being controllable in luminance for each of the plurality of light sources; a moving velocity detection unit for detecting a moving velocity of an object in the video; a luminance variation control unit for controlling, for each of the plurality of light sources, a luminance variation of the light source in accordance with the moving velocity detected by the moving velocity detection unit; an adjacent area irradiation computing unit for computing a luminance of a light source of at least one or all areas adjacent in upward, downward, rightward, leftward, and diagonal directions to a display area for displaying the object in the video, so that the at least one or all adjacent areas are irradiated in advance; wherein the luminance variation control unit controls, as well as controlling the luminance variation of the light source in the display area in accordance with the moving velocity detected by the moving velocity detection unit, the luminances of the light sources in the adjacent areas in accordance with the luminance computed by the adjacent area irradiation computing unit; and an object moving direction detection unit for detecting a moving direction of the object in the video; wherein the adjacent area irradiation computing unit computes a luminance of a light source in an adjacent area that is a move destination of the object in the video, so that the adjacent area is irradiated in advance.