Patent ID: 8228285

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: a plurality of luminance calculating devices to calculate backlight luminances individually for a plurality of backlights, on the basis of an image signal of a display image, the backlight luminances indicating luminances of light which are made incident on a display panel that displays the display image by transmitting light, and which are radiated by the plurality of backlights; a plurality of difference calculating devices to calculate differences between the plurality of backlight luminances of the display image of a predetermined frame to be displayed from now on, and the plurality of backlight luminances of the display image of a preceding frame temporally preceding the predetermined frame; a plurality of correcting devices to correct the plurality of backlight luminances of the predetermined frame by using correction values, which are determined by a coefficient indicating a degree of contribution of the differences to correction of the plurality of backlight luminances and by the differences; and a plurality of transmittance calculating devices to calculate transmittances of light from the plurality of backlights in the display panel, on the basis of the corrected plurality of backlight luminances and the image signal; wherein each of the plurality of transmittance calculating devices calculates each of the transmittances with respect to each of regions of the display panel corresponding to the plurality of backlights.