Image display apparatus and information processing apparatus

An image display apparatus comprising:

• a liquid crystal panel unit configured to display a video image in a display region;
• a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources illuminating the liquid crystal panel unit, the light sources is configured to illuminate illumination regions into which the display region is tentatively divided;
• a calculation unit configured to calculate a representative value of relative luminances of pixels in the each of small regions into which the display region is divided, the small regions being smaller than the illumination regions;
• a reference unit configured to refer to prestored lighting pattern data items for the light sources, and select a referred light pattern data item in accordance with a position of each of the small regions in the display region;
• a multiplier unit configured to multiply the referred lighting pattern data item by the representative value, for each of the small regions;
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• a determination unit configured to determine emission intensities of respective light sources based on multiplication results of the multiplier unit.