Liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display comprising:

• a light source section including a plurality of light-emission subsections which are controlled separately from one another;
• a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light emitted from each of the light-emission subsections in the light source section to display pictures;
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• a display control section including a partitioning-drive processing section which generates a light-emission pattern signal and a partitioning-drive picture signal based on the input picture signal, the light-emission pattern signal representing a two-dimensional pattern formed from lighting light-emission subsections in the light source section, the display control section performing a light-emission drive on each of the light-emission subsections in the light source section based on the light-emission pattern signal and performing a display-drive on the liquid crystal display panel based on the partitioning-drive picture signal,
• wherein the partitioning-drive processing section determines, based on the input picture signal, a barycentric position in a partitioned picture corresponding to each of the light-emission subsections, and generates the light-emission pattern signal and the partitioning-drive picture signal based on the barycentric position in the partitioned picture.