Liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display comprising:

• a light source unit that includes a light-guiding plate with a light-exit plane partitioned into a plurality of emission subsections which are independently controllable of each other, and one or a plurality of sides, and a plurality of light sources disposed at the side;
• a liquid-crystal-display panel that is configured to include a plurality of pixels, and modulates light emitted from the light source unit on the emission subsection basis, based on an input image signal made up of a pixel signal of each pixel, thereby performing image display;
• and
• a display control unit that includes a partitioning-drive processing section generating, based on the input image signal, each of a light-emission pattern signal indicating a light-emission pattern on the emission subsection basis in the light source unit and a partitioning-drive image signal, performs light-emission driving for each light source of the light source unit by using the light-emission pattern signal, and performs display driving for each pixel of the liquid-crystal-display panel by using the partitioning-drive image signal,
• wherein the partitioning-drive processing section performs
• a gain correction of multiplying each pixel signal in the input image signal by a predetermined gain factor that is set so that a value increases as a pixel position of the pixel signal goes away from the light source, and
• generation of each of the light-emission pattern signal and the partitioning-drive image signal, by using each pixel signal after the gain correction being performed.