Lighting control device and lighting control method

A lighting control device comprising:

• a detection section configured to detect the presence or absence of a person in a lighting area and a movement speed of a person, based on an image data of the lighting area that is lighted by light sources of a plurality of lighting apparatuses and is acquired from an imaging device;
• a decision section configured to decide whether each of division areas into which the lighting area is divided in advance is a stay area where a person stays or a non-stay area where a person does not stay, based on the movement speed detected by the detection section;
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• a lighting control section configured to perform different lighting controls on the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the stay area by the decision section and the lighting apparatus of the division area decided as the non-stay area.